I was going to see the scenery from the bus on the way back, but I felt sleepy and found myself back at Lotte Hotel where I started the tour to Panmunjom. It was a nice and profitable bus tour.
After the breakup of the group, we dropped in at the Duty Free Shop in the hotel. There were many Japanese at a certain cosmetic corner. I didn't know why it was so popular, but my daughter knew. It was the booth of BB Cream. BB Cream is very popular in Japan now because a famous cosmetic advisor, IKKO, who was a transgender make-up artist and also a TV personality, was promoting these cosmetics. I didn't feel any interest, but my daughter bought more than a dozen of them. It sounded like she had been asked to get it by her friends. It seemed cheaper than by mail order or shopping online from Japan. Anyway, she bought it with my credit card and would get paid from her friends in cash. Wasn't it strange?
The second picture shows my daughter and Park Yong Ha (박용하 / 朴容夏). Of course, he was a mere cut-out for commercial use. He was also well known in Japan as the rival of the protagonist in the TV drama, "冬のソナタ, 겨울연가". Lots of Japanese started to learn Korean through the influence of this drama and I'm one of those. By the way, I use a fully automatic digital camera, which recognizes the faces of humans. That is to say, I don't need to adjust the focus when I shoot faces. I wondered if the camera could detect his face on the cut-out as a human face. The result was, it could. I was surprised. How did it work?
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