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Day 15: Haneul Park, World Cup Park

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While my mom and aunt were chilling out at the patio, I quickly made my way across Pyeonghwa Park and headed towards the long zig-zagging set of stairs leading to Haneul Park. Haneul Park is an elevated, hill top park that is built on what was once a landfill site for garbage.  It’s hard to believe they converted it into such a beautiful park which affords not only sites from within the park but also the ability to look down at the rest of Seoul from high up above.  “Haneul” in Korean is the word for “sky”, hence the need to climb all those stairs to get one step closer to the stars.  Considering how many stairs there were, the climb wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be.  Everyone was moving at a leisurely pace up and down the stairs and at the end of every flight, there was a lookout area that you could stop and rest if  you needed to catch your breath.  It was amazing to see that there were some young women in high heels making their way...