The beaches here are nothing like the beaches we South Africans are used to. For one many are fenced off. For another it often seems to be hazy and miserable looking, and the sand is coarse. There never seem to be much in the way of waves, and the sea just seems a bit dank and dead. The area around the beach es are often kind've crummy. The one exception was the Hyatt, a beautiful western hotel built on a hillside and a cliff, with forest on all sides and a nice beach below where you can do some of the only surfing on the Korean peninsula. The reason they fence this off is to prevent North Korean spies from getting into the country. Quite a premium to pay (for their mutual aggression), fenced off beaches over the entire peninsula, which has a LOT of coastline. I mentioned to one of the triathletes, from the Kumho resort balcony, that in South Africa we're used to definite coastlines, booming surface, soft white sand and sun, and blue skies and surf. Here it's kind indefinite and hard to access. The sea just doesn't seem to be the same old sea here. Toy Story Dinosaur Voiceover: Sobbing.