August 17, 2006 - Sungkyunkwan University

We visited Sungkyunkwan University today and listened to, what I believed to be, the best lecture of the program so far. Dr. Oh spoke about topic mapping, which is a way of representing information using topics. It was really facinating to me. I realized halfway through the lecture that this was the way I learned. A large exent of my body of knowledge was gained through bits of information, like the producer of a particular record, leading to new singers and groups, or interviews or biographies of some of my favorite authors leading me to authors that had influenced their writing.

After the lecture, we had lunch and visited Old Sungkyunkwan and its two 500 year old Ginko Trees. They were beautiful. Later that evening the dean of the Library and Information Science College at the University of Wisconsin arrived in Seoul and we met him at a restaurant and took him to eat shaved ice at "Ice Berry" afterwards.