Korea Trip,3Jan

I wanted to get the post cards we bought at N Seoul Tower mailed, so I used my phone (on the base hotel wifi) to google "jinhae post office" and figured out where the post office was, so we walked there and got the cards mailed. We noticed a small monorail that went up the base of "Jinhae Tower", so we paid our won and went up to the base of the tower and then climbed the 8 flights of stairs to the top and took some pics of Jinhae. You can see the whole town from there, including the harbor and the Korean & US military bases (there were spots on the tower that had signs "No pictures from this area" because you can see a base). After the tower, Noreen mentioned that she wanted to go to Home Plus, which she described as a department store. So we walked there. And walked. And walked! Took almost an hour to walk there! We got there and had lunch in the food court and I noticed something that I hadn't noticed at all in my 10+ trips to Japan - KIDS! The food court was filled with moms with little kids. (I then also realized that I'd seen a lot more couples in Seoul than I'd seen in Tokyo). Home Plus is more like a small Target or Walmart with a grocery store. The grocery store was also "normal" and the prices were better than the place I'd been earlier. They had big (1.5 liter) bottles of Korean beer for sale, about $3 each (if you bought a case of 12, the price came down to about $2/bottle, which is still overpriced for the crap that Korea calls beer!) They also had sushi for sale, each piece individually wrapped in cellophane and I took a quick movie of the chips/snacks aisle. Noreen bought some stuff she needed and we took a taxi back to the base. We went to the Chinese restaurant in town and experienced the only blatant racism during the whole trip; when we were seated at our table, there were a couple of older (60+) Korean women at the table next to us who gave us the evil eye and then were re-seated. (the young couple at another table next to ours had no such problems and their baby was having fun making faces at us). Later on, 2 more older women were going to be seated at the table previously vacated and they decided they didn't want that table and were seated elsewhere. The food was great - we had shrimp in cream sauce (kind of sweet) and sweet & sour beef. Both dishes were exactly like what I get at Sam Woo BBQ (a Chinese restaurant in the Ranch 99 Asian grocery store here in SD). Went to a bar for a drink & stogie and back to the hotel.