Rainy days

In all honesty, I must say I haven't seen a single completely rainy day so far, however: if it rains, it pours and pours loads of water. To give a wonderful example, before all of us got anywhere near Seoul downtown last weekend, such a downpour began. All we had to cover were maybe one or two hundred meters from the bus stop to the metro, but it was certainly enough to have all of us drenching wet - even those 'lucky' enough to bring an umbrella. Unwilling to waste over an hour to go back home and change, but also certain to catch a cold in the air-conditioned subway with our wet shirts, we found a third option: buying completely new shirts at a nearby outlet mall. Of course, it had already stopped raining and would never do so again the entire day, so check out our group with all but one of us newly clothed. Actually a very awesome idea, because we got extremly nice sports t-shirts 50% off the already fairly decent price.
Another thing that always strikes me about Seoul is that at seemingly every corner, awe-inspiring skye scrapers rise up in rather unimpressive areas. The most astonishing part about the buildings here, even the ones we stay in, is that they are made largely of marble. In our houses this holds for the staircases, for many sky scrapers the entire fassade is made of it. In Germany it seems to be present only in the most classy hotels and even there only on the inside. Is marble cheap and common here? I will have to look into that.