if you have any chance just reserve a river-view-room at the grand-hyatt-hotel in seoul.. the view is fantastic as you can see and you are very close to every hot part of this 20 million city..

on the second day we had a meeeting with gary koo and his crew from probe design. they gave us a full presentation of their internet-design and consulting work.. maybe we should make some projects with this agency ;-)

gary made a contact for us with the sarubia gallery.. they are one of the most innovative off-galleries in seoul.. we met kwan-hoon lee for a longer discussion about cultural engagement in korea.. nice talk even if we needed an interpreter because he didn't speak any english..

gary was a contact out of the PLATOON-network: jan michael hess from mobileeconomy.de gave us the contact. he also introduced us to simon bureau. he is also an expert who gave us a special overview of the specific posibilities in korea.

the interpreter was a friend of simon and was a really interesting artist who we met before and who became somehow our guide and friend for those days: soo, a tartist (t-shirt-artist) who does really crazy perfomances also: look at his site! he never shows his face in the media.. so he covered his face on the picture.

one day we visited papertainer museum.. this container-art-commerce-project stopped by in seoul so we had to see it: containers.. a lot of containers!

after a week full of meetings, research and concept-work we had another family-yang-dinner: eva, cheol-woong and cheol-hong invited us to a very special chinese restaurant. this dinner with its warm family-atmosphere becomes the highlight of our korea-trips ;-) thank you!!

when we left seoul we were sure about our decision: seoul is the next PLATOON.city

stay tuned for our last ASIA.REPORT.HONGKONG..