I made a business trip to Shenzhen via Hong Kong in China last Friday with my boss. Shenzhen adjoins Hong Kong forward the north. So, on the first day where I reached Hong Kong, I and my boss took a bus toward Shenzhen almost at noon. Both Shenzhen and Hong Kong are cities in China, but there is still border between these two cities. The bus we took stopped at in front of the border of Shenzhen, and then we stepped down the bus in order to pass through immigration and customs. After that, we walked again forward the place where the bus we had taken was awaited, but the bus driver was changed into another guy. After about one and half hour, we arrived at the hotel we had to check in. The name of hotel was New Times Hotel (in China 新時代酒店).
We ate pizza for lunch, and drank Starbucks coffee, but the price of pizza and coffee was less inexpensive rather than that of Seoul. The price of industrial products was more expensive than other products. After lunch, we walked around the town. There were many cars, buses, and vehicles, but a few crosswalks, so most passersby crossed the street in spite of the traffic red light. The Chinese seemed to have few minds in traffic rules. After entering into the room in Hotel, we prepared the material that we were going to explain our technology the next day. In the evening, we ate dinner in the restaurant at the across building. Since Shenzhen is on the shore, there were many seafood restaurants. But, my boss said that he never had a feeling of eating seafood when seeing the pictures of menu. I really thought that was agreed. We ate safe(?) seafood such as shrimps, crabs, etc. The restaurant was wider than that in Seoul, and there were many customers in restaurants. The price of seafood was also not inexpensive.
After dinner, we came back Hotel, and took a little rest. And then, we felt tired because of early flying, so we went to a massage shop for relief of our fatigues. The labor cost was definitely so inexpensive that most labor services attracted the foreign visitors. A two-hour massage paid about below RMB(RenMinBi, 人民币, Yuan, 元) 100 per one person, in KRW \15,000. My first business trip day ended with deep restful sleep.
In below picture, Shenzhen is located above Kowloon Peninsula (in China, 九龍半島) in Hong Kong. These two cities are connected by both a railroad and a subway. But, two cities have different economy systems and cultural background.
