The eagle has landed!

More like fledging sparrow. We got through customs without a hitch, although I was expecting a raised eyebrow or two if they caught sight of the answer I had put to how many days I was staying for. The maximum allowed by my tourist visa (which is just my UK passport) is 90 days, but I had put down 600 days, which I reckoned was closer to the 2 year contract I have. Nothing. Just a cursory glance at my passport, and check on the computer, and it was a dismissive wave through. I don't think the guy on the desk had much in the way of English, or I think it might have been a different story. Sue breezed though seconds later. Our cases collected, we headed to the exchange office to change over some of our Sterling to Korean Won. We were offered 1800 back at Heathrow, which I thought was a rip-off, besides the fact they didn't have any. We got 2066 to the pound here, which is a good rate. Our pick-up driver was waiting outside the arrival gate holding a card with our name on it. Again, no English available. Looks like this is going to be a theme while over here, but what can I expect – We are the foreigners here.
We travelled down the motorways heading towards Seoul before taking a southerly route down to Ansan. It took about 1 ½ hours due to some rush our traffic around the Seoul junctions. We got into Ansan, and found our first neon sign lit up with two familiar golden arches – yes, McD's strikes again! Right next to that was Homeplus sign with Tesco's lit up underneath. We can't escape the corporate giants.
We were met at the hotel by 2 of the guys from the plant, who gave us a low down of our schedule for the next few days, and gave me a mobile phone, to use for the next few days. It's a great looking phone, but it's all in Korean! Doh!
We are staying at the Aura hotel in Ansan, which is an ultra modern hotel fitted out with the latest gadgets and remote control on everything! Even to underfloor heating is controlled by a hand held. Hot and cold filtered water from a built-in unit, 50 inch plasma tv, DVD, PC, Hi-FI etc. In fact all we are missing is a vibrating bed. Oh wait, that's probably next door in the Hotel X, a “love Motel” also lit up like a candy store with tacky neons. I'll try and get a picture posted soon.
We have a free day Saturday, then on Sunday, we are going furniture shopping to kit out the apartment which will be ready to move into on Monday.