Eating With Mr. JK Himself

Today the head of JY Books took us out to lunch so that he could finally introduce himself....which was weriod because we had seen him several times before. He even commented on my read aloud once, but each time he refused to talk to us because we had not yet been introduced. We found out a lot about the company. For example, it is actually 3 companies in one: a publishing company, a dot com company, and a teaching company. We ate at what I think is a formal restaurant. We had our own private room and we sat on the floor of course. The waitresses brought in what seemed to be appetizer after appetizer. Four different soups, countless kinds of kimchi, spicy pork, almond jello, rice, octopus with noodles, spicy tuna (I think), grapes and a bunch of other dishes I can't even begin to describe. The table was covered in a thousand different bowls. Communal eating is big here. Everyone eats out of the same bowl. We each had seperate plates to put food on but since the only serving utencils we had were the ones we were using to eat with its really not any more sanitary. I wish we could have taken a picture, but I think it would have been rude at a formal business meeting to whip out the camera like a silly tourist. Anyway, JY is an interesting man....kinda boring. For fun he is going to make us all come to a "sport day" where we all have to get together and run! Sounds like fun. He is going to offer a Korean class in October so that we can learn how to speak a little, and he thaught that maybe he would take us to see some sights in Korea. :)