A New iPhone and Museums at Kyunghee University

Yesterday we travelled down to Hyewha to go to a cell phone store that speaks English. Ryan got a new iPhone 5S and Carly now has the iPhone 4.

After that, we walked into Kyunghee University and managed to find both their history museum and natural history museum. The first three museum photos show a couple of festive statues outside the library/history museum, Carly sitting in a cool chair and then a jar coffin in the history museum. Basically, it is two jars, or cups, that fit together to make a coffin. We’d never seen one before despite being to several history museums here in Korea.

Then we headed to the natural history museum and that’s where things got really interesting. It doesn’t look like it has changed much since the 70s and is filled with questionable taxidermy (look for the photo of the cats with the bulging eyes), specimens in bottles, pinned insects, and colorful murals that demonstrate a very 70s (I think) view of science, the universe, and especially the future. In particular look for the a very random diorama of the ‘Moslem Garden of Eden’, a cheesy robot covered in dead humans, and the vision of a future ‘oughtopia’.

You can check out the photos at http://flickr.com/gp/rcniman/8ED5U3/