In September 2008 Hans (age 51), as a member of a the Swedish radio-orienteering team, goes to Korea to participate in the 14th World Championships in Hwaseong, south of Seoul.
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The official program
The Swedish team consists of 7 members who attended the following program.
Arrivals and registrations
Training on both bands, opening ceremony
144 MHz Competitions and awarding ceremony
Free day, excursion
3.5 MHz Competitions and awarding ceremony, farewell party
Departure of participants
To enable time for time adjustments (–7 hours) the team arrive one day earlier. They also spend one extra day in Hwaseong after the competitions.
4-month training program
In the beginning of May Hans prepares a training program covering May to August for the Västerås team.
Training program
Departure from Västerås
From Västerås there are 5 participants: Leif Zettervall, Bo Lenander, Rolf Svensson, Jan Palmquist and Hans Sundgren.
They embark the bus to Arlanda airport from the bus terminal.
Photo: Jan Palmquist
Airports
The airplay ticket is bought 2019-05-26 for SEK 4747 on Internet, They travel with Finnair ( 8 september med ankomst 15.55 till Stockholm)
Departure Stockholm 14:10, arrival Helsinki 16:10.
Departure AY041 Helsinki 17:30, arrival Seoul next day 08:25.
Photo: Leif Zettervall
Renting telephone at airport
The mobile phone network in South Korea is a CDMA network. Therefor, Hans' GSM mobile will not work there. So he rent a CDMA phone at the airport and is then prepared to send SMS and talk to his father and others in Sweden,
Photo: Leif Zettervall
Bus from Seul airpoirt to Hwaseong
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Photo: Leif Zettervall
Dinner at the hotel
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Photo: Leif Zettervall
Walk in the village
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Photo: Leif Zettervall
Hotel La Vie D'or
Le Vie Dor .
Photo: Leif Zettervall
The room
Le Vie Dor .
Photo: Leif Zettervall
Event center Hwaseong
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Seightseeing tour to Seul
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Photo: Leif Zettervall
Changdeokgung Palace
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Photo: Leif Zettervall
Seul Tower
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Photo: Leif Zettervall
Dinner Seul
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Photo: Leif Zettervall
Training
Le Vie Dor .
Photo: Leif Zettervall
Opening ceremony
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Dinner at hotel
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Photo: Leif Zettervall
144 MHz race, in the starting area
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144 MHz race
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Samsung factory visit
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Photo: Hans Sundgren
3.5 MHz race, in the starting area
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3.5 MHz race
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Eating in Korea
Eating in Korea means you have to use steel pins instead of a fork and knife.
Bo, Hans and Rolf having an evening meal the day before departure.
In the competition center, the dinner was served in the hotel restaurant after handing over the dinner ticket.
Photo: Hans Sundgren
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During the championships the special call sign HL14ARDF was active from one room in the hotel.
Information to add
The Swedish runners saw one snake and some spiders, but no dangerous animals.
The hotel room had cupboards, a TV and a telephone, but no furniture... After some time we got simple beds and after some days we got two chairs and a small table. Anyway, we slept very well in the beds and were quite happy with the arrangement.
Travel home
The team start the travel home in the morning and arrive to Stockholm in the afternoon the same day.
Departure Seul 10:15 AY042, arrival Helsinki 14:05.
Departure Helsinki 16:00, arrival Stockholm 15:55.