This dad was sent on a mystery tour across South Korea for his birthday

By Roisin Burke

A dad has been sent on a scavenger hunt for his birthday and it looks like a lot of fun!

Paul is an American lecturer teaching in Seoul with his wife and 10-month-old son and he arrived home on April 1 to an empty house and a birthday card on his keypad.

His birthday is in a few days so he wasn't expecting just yet.

The intrique, mystery and suspense starts to build as he opens the card, which has a puzzle inside.

So, I am either on my way to an awesome birthday party or an elaborate April Fool’s prank.

“Roses are red, violets are blue, you don’t need to pack a shoe, but make sure to look in the book that goes moooo”

So he goes around the house looking for a book that goes Moooo and eventually finds another card in a children’s book, which has another puzzle to solve.

“You put me in dry, but then I get wet, the longer I stay in, the stronger I get.”

Again, another search around the house until he eventually finds another card beside the tea-bags.

This is where it gets complicated, apparently, this guy likes puzzles and his wife wrote out an elaborate coded message for him to solve.

When uncoded, the message said: “Your train departs Yongsan station at fifteen fifty. Hurry. Don’t forget your ticket.”

Getting to the train station on time, he flashes his ID card and sure enough there is a first class ticket waiting for him at the desk.

He is off to a city called Gwangju, which is at the opposite end of the city.

And that’s all we know!

Hopefully he will post more as when he arrives, we are dying to know what happens next!