June 12. The games Koreans play.

Korea is obsessed with golf. It is everywhere on TV and in the stores. But you can't find a golf course anywhere. But you will find tons of these everywhere. In a country where flat ground is a precious commodity, you can't waste it on knocking around a little white ball.

But you can engineer these immense driving ranges. Some have 5 stories of hitting boothes. All the balls go into the huge net suspended by a massive steel bar structure. You can actually hit the ball a couple hundred yards in some of these things. There is one right down the street from the guest house.

A round of golf? $200 bucks, we are told, for the least of the courses here. So these golfers get pretty good before they hit the links, is my guess.

It is now Wednesday the 13th...we took the KTX back to Seoul today. Sad to leave the Westin Chosun Beach, a hotel that feels like something out of a Bond movie, with all the foreigners and business people and gamblers. The have 1 casino in Busan, and it is for foreigners only. Now there is a way for Texas to do casino gambling -- require that only Okies can play! In any event, the place brings in a certain crowd to the hotel that gives it a Casablanca feel. Right down to the acts in the pubs and lounges, all who sing American songs -- but are Russian.

Good news. We scored soccer tickets for Saturday evening. We need to take the train to Incheon. Incheon plays FC Seoul that night. And we get to go with Max's foster sister. Sun Ok is now 17, and will be going to college next year. She wants to see Max -- she was 10 when Max was at her house, and cried and cried when he left, we are told (Max was the first foster kid in Mrs. Ahn's house). So Sun Ok and a friend are going to go with us to the game. She wants to try out her English. Should be a great time...