Tues, May 8, 2012
Hakata Port/ Fukuoka City Museum
As the first step in this project, YoungDoo said that he wanted to see the port.  The port, the place where people come from someplace and try to go to someplace.  YoungDoo’s first inspiration was asking what meaning this port of the ocean has to the people of Fukuoka/ Japan.
At Hakata Port boats of all sizes were coming and going, one after another.  Actually, Hakata port is Japan`s biggest international terminal for foreign passengers.  It is said that in one year approximately 870 thousand people board and alight here.  Incidentally, 80% of those people are on the route for South Korea.  It is 3 hours from here to Busan by high-speed boat.  In the port`s container yard, the containers were stacked together or lowered successfully like a puzzle.  YoungDoo observed the appearance of this with great interest.
Also, on this day we visited the Fukuoka City Museum where the curator gave us a commentary on the exchange between Japan and Korea since ancient times.