The story goes, we went to South Korea, and stayed there for about a month. Most of that time was in Daejeon, but if you go to South Korea, you go to Seoul. We went there for only a weekend, but it was a pretty amazing adventure. I'll let the pictures tell most of the stories, but there's one that words would do better to tell. Guess I'll let the story comes when i picture does.
Everything about South Korea feels like an older time to me. This is a picture from a movie theatre that gave me a supremely 1980s feeling. Most things are more so 90s, but the 80s make me happy, so I figured I'd share a glimpse from the past!
The busy night streets of Seoul. For those of you who have heard that Japan is crowded, let it be known that South Korea actually has more people per square foot of land than Japan, so it is even less possible to find space to yourself. Though South Korea does a much better job of building upward. There are many houses in Japan, even in the cities, it is not impossible to find houses. This is not the case of South Korea, there are apartments EVERYWHERE. This means that there's a lot more room for shops, and less room for housing.
In the end, it turned out that there had been a blizzard overnight, and there was nearly 10 inches of snow on the ground.. and I was wearing sandals! and again, the 20 minute walk to the station.. i was pretty mortified. Luckily our new found friend helped us figure out *everything*, and even got us to a closer station. It just seemed like another "ichigoichie" in life.
Transportation in Korea is very cheap. If you are headed to Korea, and need to plan your travel around, this is how you do it: http://info.korail.com/2007/eng/eng_index.jsp in the "online booking section" you can find schedules are prices for all trains. If you have a lot of time on your hands, and just want to relax your way around, the Mugunghwa train will get you almost entirely across the country in less than 6 hours for only about $25-30. There are faster trains too, and they aren't incredibly more expensive. So anyway, we went to our friend's place for a few days, and then headed off to Seoul for the weekend... and that was our adventure~