Last weekend we travelled to Busan for Peter’s wedding. Peter works for our school. He’s the guy who picks you up, shuttles you around, takes care of any problems with your apartment, etc. He’s the first person the new whitey meets when getting into Daejeon. Apart from that, we aren’t really sure what Peter does with his time, exactly, but he always seems to be doing something for the school. Sometimes he hangs out with us, when we go out for the night. Peter can sure put away the soju…
Anyway, he got married last weekend, so several of us went down to Busan to see a Korean wedding. Most of the time, Koreans don’t have weddings in churches, they have them in ‘wedding halls’. Some of the larger wedding halls may have several weddings going on all at the same time. Opens up all sorts of neat opportunities for wedding crashing, I would think, but whatever. The wedding hall we were at only had one wedding going on.
We left early-ish on Saturday morning, and the school had provided a bus to take us down in. So after several hours riding, and trying to sleep some on the hot bus, we made it into Busan. Busan is a rather big city on the coast. I’ve only been there twice, but it seems pretty nice, and if I decided to do another year in Korea, I’d consider going there.
We eventually get to the wedding hall, which is in a large building called the ‘Busan Marine Building’, near the shipping port. We go up, lounge around for awhile as best we can, then file into the, uh… chapel, hall, big marriage room… whatever. There aren’t enough chairs for everyone, but we manage to get some for us. I thought taking pictures might be impolite, but apparently nothing at Korean wedding is considered impolite. All through the ceremony there were people talking, using their cell phones, wandering in and out, and I’m pretty sure drinking in the back. It was quite the experience. I took pictures, and some video, but as I can’t seem to sort out how to get the video up you’ll just be getting the former.
After the ceremony we went up another fifteen floors, and ate at a big buffet. That was the reception. All in all, very interesting, and reasonably entertaining.
