Apologies for the lateness, it's been a busy couple of days! Yesterday we did a bus city tour together with Nottingham Academy. We were first taken to the Hyundai area of the city. Ulsan is the city where Hyundai was founded and where the vast majority of its products are built. It began as a car workshop in 1935 and has now become one of the biggest engineering companies in the world.
We saw both the heavy industry (shipping) and the car side of the company. It was fascinating! We drove through the ship production yard and saw the different processes. They have cranes that hold 1290 tons! The scale of the place was incredibly impressive.
We then went to the car side of the business. We went to a museum to see the development of Hyundai cars since the first in 1975. It was interesting to see the development of safety features over time! More excitingly, we were taken to the actual assembly factory where we watched the workers putting together the cars bit by bit! We were told not to take photos but a bit of swift stealth work by Miss Morton produced some good results! We were told that a new car is completed every 10 seconds at the factory!
Now comes the dramatic part of the day (and of the whole trip come to that!) So we got off the bus to look around a park... But just as we were ready to set off, Ikea walked nose first into the boot door of a bus 😫! As her mum put it, 'it's all part of the experience'!! 8 stitches later and a group venture to experience a Korean hospital, we are all safe and well again!
Here are our observations about Korean hospitals. They have...
1) amazing chairs
2) a grand piano in the lobby
3) a fish tank
4) a glass case full of bones (who's bones I do not know!)
5) pictures of operations in the lift!
Crazy place! They were, however, very quick and incredibly friendly, not to mention putting Ikea back together very well!!
We were joined by our Korean partners this evening for dinner before having a relaxing evening after an eventful day!
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