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I walked North along the West side of Jongmyo to get to Changdeokgung and came across some outdoor exercise machines. While travelling through Seoul, I found many places, mostly in parks but sometimes along paths like this one, where outdoor exercise machines were installed for people to use. I saw a number of different exercise machines throughout and most of them were of low-impact designed more to loosen or warm up the body. The ones I saw here included a sit-up bench, a suspended walker and a bench-press like machine that used your own weight as the counter weight. When you grabbed the bars and pushed forward, the seat would move up in the proportional amount. I continued North until I finally got to the entrance of the Royal Palace of Changdeokgung (or Changdeok Palace). When it came to ranking sites, my Lonely Planet Seoul City Guide book ranked Gyeongbokgung ahead of Changdeokgung. So before I even got here, I felt like this palace was somehow not going to be ...

After leaving Seoul City Hall and Plaza, I took Line 1 down to Seoul Station and then transferred to Line 4 and took it to Hoehyeon Station with the intentions of checking out Namdaemun Market. I should mention that one of things I noticed about Seoul’s subway system is that it seemed really well heated, almost too well heated. Every time I entered a subway station I would always get really warm and need to buy a drink or equip myself with one before hand to cool down. I think part of it was because I was always constantly moving and then wouldn’t realize how warm I was until I stopped moving, but I also think that Koreans are just use to having a warmer body temperature... or you could say that Canadians are better at tolerating the cold. At first that may seem like an obvious statement that Canada is colder but I didn’t think I would feel that way as I always thought that the weather between Toronto and Seoul was very similar. When I arrived at my aunt’s place yesterday, the first ...