Wesley's Tool-Box

After passing by multitudes of shops prominently featuring gulbi in front for a few minutes, we drove through rice fields that featured transmission towers scattered here and there. Then we noticed employee apartments for Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) and Korea Plant Service & Engineering (KPS), a sure sign that there's a power plant nearby. Eventually, a familiar dome-shaped building started appearing at the edge of the horizon.

As a part of the three-week training camp for the new interns at Korea Power Exchange (KPX), we were taken to actual power plant sites. I'm guessing that this was designed let us get the feeling of the real hardware behind the machineries that produce electricity for the nation. It would also double as a reviewing process for all the studies we did in the training sessions during the past week. Last week, we went to the Taean thermal power plant, conveniently located next to the training center we're staying for the second and third week of the training, Korea Power Learning Institute (KPLI). This week, we went to a place tad farther away. A place that shares a lot of similarities with a thermal power plant but also quite different in many aspects - a nuclear power plant.

Well, I'm writing this at a training center in Icheon. This is my first day at work in Korea Power Exchange, as the first 3 weeks of training is held at training centers in faraway location. I had much fun today with my teammates and all, but sadly the internet connection wasn't working on this computer I'm using at the lounge. So I'm using my cellphone as a temporary internet connection. Slow, but better than nothing.

I hope to tell more about the training as time and circumstances permit.

I had been thinking of visiting United States for a while. There were relatives and friends I could visit. I might also attend some trade shows. Alas, my U.S. visa expired over a decade ago, and Korea still isn't under the visa exemption program for United States. After all those years of missing out, I decided to get it over with and get a U.S. visa recently. It was a bit of work, but I decided to do this on my own instead of letting an agency take care of it.

Continuing on, the eight finalists for the FarCry tournaments were summoned to the alley leading to the backstage. The tech demo was still in progress, and we had to wait about ten minutes for that to finish.