Embedded Systems

Those days everybody is really busy because of the midterm exams. I am also busy so here is a brief post.

Some people asked me: what are you doing in South Korea? Because I only post about trips, events and so on. But I am working hard in the University of Incheon hehe, so here is an example of what I am doing:

This is the embedded device 320 (based on 8255 technology). In the University of Malaga I have studied this kind of devices, but this is the first time I see a real one in person.

Basically, we can program the device by using Ubuntu and a shell terminal. Maybe it sounds boring, but it is actually more interesting than it seems hehehe.

Well, I said it would be a brief post, isn't it? That's all folks!

26.03.2014 - Namsan and Haneul Park

On wednesday 26th was the Day of the Culture in South Korea, so some shows were cheaper or even for free!

That's why we headed to the Namsan Theatre, and we were watching a performance about traditional korean dance. We didn't understand the whole meaning of the show but anyway it was amazing!

It seems we were the only foreigners of the show, so at the exit of the theatre a guy came to us asking for a short interview. We just were asking about how we feel about the show and what we think about the Day of the Culture of Korea. Something curious at least hehe.

Afterwards, we went to the Tower of Namsan, which is located in the summit of a hill. Definetely it is not a place to go entirely by foot, unless you want to do hiking.

The place is full of lockers, it seems it is kind of trendy. We also saw there who it is supposed is the mascot of Namsan ¿?. No I think it is just a famous cartoon or someting like that: Hachi!

An important discovery was done in the Tower of Namsan: the melon ice creams! Seriously guys, once you taste it, you will want to eat it every single day.

Aftwewards, we were near Haneul park to take the lunch. Thanks to Jiwon and her mother for such a good lunch!! even with a pokemon tablecloth!

We spent the rest of the afternoon walking around the area and the park, and we also saw the Seoul FC stadium!

And that's all folks!

23.03.2014 - Insadong

As we are doing every single weekend, on sunday 23th we went also to Seoul. This time we wanted to see Insadong and its surroundings.

Insadong is a very famous street of the northern Seoul, which is full of shops with hand-made stuff and souvenirs. It is also popular because of the temples, palaces and parks that are located nearby.

In the following picture, you can see how crowdy is Insadong on sundays

Insadong has a lot of shops and market stalls. In some of them you can see things like Dragon Ball or Iron Man figures, Buda sculptures, and....some weird stuff like the ones you can see in the following pictures...

We also visited the Park of Tapgol. It was smaller than we expected, but anyway was nice.

Finally, we also took a look at the temple of Jogyesa

We came back to the temple with the sunset, and some parts of the templed were lightened, but we were a bit dissapointed about that, I think we expected something more...amazing.

And that was our sunday.