This weekend I decided that I had better go and do something cultural.  It’s been a while since I learned something new or rather something significant about Korea so I called a few friends and we headed off to the Korean War Memorial Museum located in the heart of Seoul.  I had heard from several people that it’s a pretty amazing place and they were right.  The museum features displays that cover an almost 5,000-year history of foreign invasions, from before the Three Kingdoms Period through the Korean War.  The exterior of the museum is surrounded by a park which is filled with aircraft, tanks, and other fighting machines from the Korean War to the present…that was my favourite part.  Here are a bunch of pictures that I took:

This is me sitting inside a UH-1 helicopter also known as the Huey…so cool!!!

Here are Dan and I in front of a U.S, Sherman Tank.  The next picture is the Soviet   T-34.  The tank that defeated Hitler on the western front in WWII.

The back of the T-34 and beside it an American B-52 bomber!!!

Here we see an American F15 fighter jet and beside it we see Dan and Erich standing under the open bomb bay doors of the B-52 bomber.  This is the high altitude bomber that was tasked with delivering nuclear payloads for the United States during the cold war period.  SOOO COOOOL!!

Next we have a mobile artillery cannon with 105mm gun (that’s big) and the South Korean version of the U.S. Abrams tank.  This is the tank currently used by the U.S. military.

These planes are pretty awesome.  The first is one of the original Soviet Mig fighters.  This plane came into the possession of South Korea due to the defection of the pilot in 1983.  Yes in 1983.  The plane beside it is the South Korean version of the American Spitfire.  Awesome plane.