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Hyesil and I, along with our friends Daniel and Rachel, checked out the Body Worlds exhibit today in Seoul.  I didn't realize that it had been at the War Memorial of Korea for almost this whole year.  If I had known, I definitely would have checked it out sooner.  If you've never heard of this exhibit, here's the description from the original website:

BODY WORLDS is the original anatomical exhibition series displaying authentic human bodies, willed by donors through the Institute for Plastination’s Body Donor Program, and preserved using a process called plastination. Invented by Dr. von Hagens, plastination is a groundbreaking process in which real human specimens are preserved through the science of plastination. The specimens resulting from the revolutionary process are called plastinates. Plastinates show the inner workings of the body and the striking whole-body specimens show the human body in real-life poses, like never seen before.

It was quite interesting to see real bodies preserved using this plastination technique.  At times, it was strange to distinguish if these models were real or fake. But then you would see things like hair, eyelashes, or the look in the eyes of the "model" that would make you think twice about what you were looking at.  It was more scientific than I originally thought it would be, with lots of anatomical and biological descriptions accompanying each body part or figure.  Being a bio nerd in the past, it was interesting to see all these body parts and physiological processes that I had learned about up close and in the "flesh".