Sunday, April 29, 2012

Anneyong Haseyo - April 10 - 12

ok, we continue from the previous post

for the first week, we were having lectures in COTI. starting on the weekend till the 2nd week, we were out to experience real Korean life...

April 10 -  Before off to COTI, kak Norizah (my roomate) and me went to the nearest 7e to buy something plus sight seeing..hahahhaa


nice view surround the Hotel

Nice...love u my roomate!
On the street of Seoul...


the Government encourage the people for exercising...

land is most precious and valuable
The day start with lecture on Korea's IT Industry Development Strategy by Prof Dr. Lee Joo-Sung from KAIST...well, honestly when talking about IT, im a bit lost since im not an IT savvy person..but from the lecture i understand that Korean are more looking forward on gadgets..they think, they research, they innovate..for example the Samsung Galaxy Tab..the idea is from the Korean..and they are no.1 in the market.even the Japanese IT companies are surviving to sustain their growth...that is the risk in this type of business..and they are proud to use what they innovate..that spirit is what we want!!!
Internet in Korea is very fast - we like
In the afternoon lecture on Navigating the future - Korea's New Growth Engines. We went to Ministry of Knowledge and Economy to listen about this topic. Everyone was serious when we talk about economy..hehehhe..then it continue with talk about design...
looking serious during the talk
Later that nite, my group n me going out for window shopping..we went to Insadong n having coffee at little India...


cosy
April 11 - In Malaysia it was public holiday..in Korea they are having election...

that morning we went off to National Museum of Korea and Gyeongbokyung Palace..no time to be wasted..hehehehe
use gadgets provided to listen to the information

attentive listener
museum

school trip to museum

entrance to the museum

Gyeongbokyung Palace
Gyeongbokyung Palace

Gyeongbokyung Palace

the guys

Gyeongbokyung Palace

Gyeongbokyung Palace

 fred was missing during taken of this pic (thanks to the yellow card)
Yellow card - its a card provided by COTI for emergency use. It was written in Korean langguage and English with contact numbers.
the ladies


pm office is nearby

full with tourist

love the architecture

scene to die for

i love the door...so traditional!

chimney...

love..love..love this pic

this palace made me mad about the art of photography

seriously, i'm fall in love with this scenery

mr erwan enjoys the scenery too
After touring the palace, we off to saffron restaurant in Myeongdong for welcoming luncheon hosted by Malaysian Embassy. it really nice when we met malaysian in the oversea..deep in heart we can feel that we are ONE!

Saffron Restaurant
later, we went to see the election process...
at the school
the voting process really systematic and organised. The officers consist from various department and they really cooperative giving explanation to us...
happy to be part of it
at the counting sites..they use systematic approach with the help of computer system
April 12 - the day continue with lecture on leadership challenge: the executive case study by Prof Dr. Hwang In-Pyo and Public Policy Case Studies by Prof Kim Young-Kyu. We were given task to make a case study. We read through the case and have to come out with the summary on the feasible study...
leader is in u!
On nite we took the opportunity to go out by ourselves..
we went to Itaewon..Alhamdulillah, we pray Isyak at the mosque n having kebab for dinner...


Allahuakbar...

halal kebab
ok peeps, to be continue later...

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