Growing up, I loved department store basements in Tokyo -- they sell the best food there. So, having arrived in Seoul with an evening to myself, I took the bus to the downtown area, and went to the basement of the most high-end department store I could find to see if it would be like in Tokyo. (Think: Harrod's Food Hall, KaDeWe, Marshall Field's, etc.) I came across this string of fish and it delighted me to think that in this department store, I could buy dried fish, strung up, ready to be taken home for dinner. Instead, I bought an assortment of foods to have a picnic in my hotel room, but getting back to it was another story. I don't read or speak Korean, and the English map I had was undecipherable to the taxi drivers and bus drivers, so I had to do a Hangul-writing-visual-matching game to figure out the train system to get back! I was glad I didn't have the string of fish in my bag all that time.
Junko, I always enjoy your photos AND stories. It's a pictorial journal you are creating...think about publishing it at the end of the 365project adventure...
