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After referring to the USO monthly tour itinerary, I saw a ginseng tour at Geusam. Geusam is the center of Korean ginseng distribution and held the world ginseng expo from Aug 29th – Sept 7th. Korean ginseng is well known for its medical health effects and ginseng from Geusam is regarded as the best in...
Not much of a plan on my lazy Sunday, so I decided to watch Jump performance at Cinecore Theater, which was 5 minutes walk from my hotel in Insadong. Jump is a 90 minutes non-verbal comedy performance that is based on taekwondo martial arts.I bought 50,000won seat at 3pm show.I was guided to my seat and was...
HOT Festival is to promote the awareness of Korean famous red chili pepper. Acronym for HOT is Health, Origin and Taste. Sorry to disappoint you, it's not the hot sassy female dancers’ festival.City Hall with a huge South Korea flag made of thousands of individual photos.Red chili pepper...
I’m so lucky I managed to secure a guided tour few days before the tour day, as I heard the DMZ tour got filled up weeks in advance. The half-day tour cost me 46000won, including pick-up from hotel at 7.30am. The tour guide, an elderly lady greeted me and she able to speak quite good English. I’m...
After my late Sunday brunch, I took a subway to City Hall and walked for about 20 minutes to Chungmuno for Nanta Theather show. Nanta is a 90 minutes non-verbal comedy performance set in a kitchen as its background that is using pans, knives, pots and any cooking utensils that can be found in a kitchen as...
South Korea declared Independence Day on the 15th August 1948 from the Japanese occupation. This year, they celebrated their 60th anniversary. From the hotel I took an early walk (around 7.30am) toward the Gyeonbokgung Palace for the main celebration. When I was there, everyone was setting up the all the...
I left my office early after greeted farewell to all my colleagues in Seoul. I rushed back to hotel, hoping to spend some quality time with my wife for a good dinner. Since we missed the Samyetang dish on the Christmas Eve, we decided visit the restaurant I normally used to go which served only Samyetang...
My wife and I took a quick to Myeongdong for dinner and hopefully some last minute shopping. My wife bumped into this cute pelican and went into it mouth. She was having a hard time positioned herself for me to take her photo. In fact, it’s for the small kids…From Myeongdong to Lotte Hotel, we walked in...
My Korean colleague, KS Choi brought me to a Korean restaurant for barbeque dinner. According to him, Korean likes to bring their first time visitors for this type of dinner as many of them liked it. Korean barbeque is a Korean way of grilling meat such as beef, pork, chicken and other types of meat. The...
The moment I stepped out from my office building, I heard loud music from the Cheonggye area. Being out of curiosity, I took a sneak to see what is happening. To my surprise, I saw a stage being setup as if there was a live performance. It was the Jeju Mandarin Orange festival, which aims to promote the...
I was in the hotel’s study table surfing net and watching TV, then out of the sudden I heard a group of youngsters started screaming in ecstasy. I’m wondering what was happening. I looked out of the hotel window and I saw snow falling down. I’m quite surprised to see snow in the month of November,...
My Korean colleague, KS Choi promised to bring me and my wife to Nami Island in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province. So we decided to go on the New Year Day before I’m leaving Seoul in three days time. Choi brought along his wife, Marie. The weather that day was extremely cold, if I’m not mistaken it was below...
This year, my wife and I were celebrating our New Year Eve’s in Seoul. The main event was held at the Bosingak Belfry in Jongno, which was 15 minutes walk from our hotel. That will save us a lot of time from taking any public transports that was going to be freaking crowded. We left our hotel at 11.20pm...
One of the best things to do in Seoul during winter is skiing and snowboarding. Yongpyong is considered one of the Asia’s best ski resorts and also most popular ski resorts in Korea. Yongpyong has a total of 31 different ski slopes and it has different level of difficulty from beginner to expert. The...
After a light breakfast at the hotel and already prepared the shopping list yesterday, we walked for 15 minutes with a lovely weather to Myeongdong with full enthusiasm and hope. Brought along my backpack prepared to store all the goodies bought there. Myeongdong is one of the main shopping areas selling...
There’s no early dismiss on Christmas Eve for working in Korea as compared to US. So I tried to leave at 6pm sharp and prepared to have a good Christmas Eve celebration and countdown with my wife. In Seoul, Christmas celebration is mainly for young couples. On the streets, you will see many couples buying...
According to some websites, we can have magnificent views of the sunrise from Cheongchoho Lake. So I asked the hotel attendant, what is the best time to view the sunrise. He confidently said 4am and can be viewed from the hotel, or even better if we walked toward the lake. My wife and I were so excited and...
The city of Sokcho in Gangwon province provides the gateway to Korea’s most popular national park, Seoraksan or Mount Seorak which has been one of the most tourist destinations in Korea. Since I’m not working on that weekend, therefore I decided to have an overnight stay at Sokcho. My wife and I took...
After my wife arrived in Seoul 2 days back, I decided to be her unprofessional tour guide. We started with a lunch at Insadong restaurant, tried the bibimbap which is a popular Korean dish. Bibim-bap means mixed-rice. Bibimbap is served with a hot stone bowl of rice with seasoned vegetables and red chili...
I’m so determined that I should see more of Seoul, I took a walk from Insadong to Bukchon Hanok Village. Hanok is traditional Korean house. Bukchon Hanok Village was once a village of aristocrats long ago, and its luxury tile-roofed houses called Giwas have been preserved since the Joseon Dynasty. Located...
