My good friend Liz checking out the stats on a tank.
A South Korean fan boat (with angry shark teeth decals) in hot pursuit of some communist water lilies.
90% of the people at the museum were groups of kids out on group trips....Korean boy/girl scouts, red cross youth, to name a couple. I think these kids in the yellow hats were red cross youth.
Pretty sure these guys are Korean boy scouts. They all had way too much in their backpacks.
Far and away the most popular attraction at the museum. Its tough to see but those kids at the end of the conveyor belt are goings nuts trying to get as many little plastic balls up into that big green box as possible.
I spent a Saturday afternoon recently at the Korean War Museum/Memorial with my good friends Liz and Heather. Its an impressive place and covers not just the Korean war, but also all the other wars Korea has been involved with in the past fifty years, including the Vietnam and the Gulf. There is also a huge section dedicated to all the little skirmishes the South has had with the North since the end of the war. I'd been curious to learn about them from the North Korean perspective. I think there might be some differences.
An ancient Korean pagoda, anchoring one end of the museums light filled main gallery. 
No explanation necessary....
I can only imagine the sounds that would come out of these two. 
The Korean National Museum is a huge structure, one of the largest museums in all of Asia. It houses mostly Korean artifacts but also has impressive collections from other Asian countries, notably China. At the time of my visit the museum was hosting an Egypt exhibit and they had pasted giant stickers on the face of each step, creating the cool image above. The picture is of course invisible to the people sitting on the steps. 
Something akin to a crown made for the Korean royalty a thousand plus years ago. The picture does not do its ornateness justice. 
