I just got back from South Korea. Fortunately, Kim Jong-il didn’t nuke the city while I was there. (Though it would have made for a badass epitaph… “Here lies the game designer formerly known as Witchboy. He was disintegrated in a nuclear attack.”)
The conference was great and I think my speech went well, despite having to talk through an interpreter.
Following our super-fun trip to London, my girlfriend and I pushed our luck and had a blast in Seoul too. Just walking around on Asian streets is fairly amazing all on its own, but specifically Leah and I visited cool crowded markets, an old palace, a traditional Korean restaurant, and Seoul Tower. She had to overcome her fear of heights and ride in a cable car to get up to Seoul Tower. (Initially, she thought I meant a San Francisco-style trolley car and was confused when I was looking up in the sky, trying to find the cable car as a clue to lead us to the cable car station. When she saw it, hanging from wires, way up over the street, her expression was priceless. “Oh, you meant a cable car!?”)
One of the highlights of the trip was hanging out with Peter Krell from Game Face. Peter is a man of many talents…thinker, writer, editor and aspiring game designer.
The Seoul Hilton was really posh. I highly recommend the breakfast buffet.
![Seoul Hilton](http://www.witchboy.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/441b61u.jpg)
Photo of me watching Korean girls go by, taken by my awesome g/f Leah Stinson.
![Lineage II poster](http://www.witchboy.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/35ndafd.jpg)
Me with a Lineage II poster. I asked Leah to take this one for my friend Starr Long.
![Leah at KINEX](http://www.witchboy.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/2vtwghy.jpg)
Leah, at KINEX, the convention center (which is WAY too far from downtown Seoul).
![Peter Krell](http://www.witchboy.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/2qrztpg.jpg)
Peter Krell, editor of Game Face, posing in some place other than Seoul.