11 Days in Korea, Dec 2017
Singapore to Korea
Watched Kubo and the Two Strings followed by Cars 3 on flight, both "cartoons", but I can't stop my love for animation films. Also, Kubo's art and the amount of effort taken to make this film using stop-motion deserves a hell lot of recognition. Cars 3 made me cry when flashbacks of the past Cars 1 and 2 appeared on screen. It depicts the fears and bitterness of becoming old and getting replaced, it taught me that glory days doesn't last forever and having something good to remember is all that it matters. Really heartwarming ;)
Reached Incheon airport at 10+ pm, took a 45 minutes airport line subway to Hongik Station and walked to our Airbnb. Weather wasn't as cold as I expected, but the roads in Korea are not meant for pushing a luggage!! Lost a wheel on the way. Liying says every country I go I'd lost a wheel there ._.
Tip of the day: Always check that your station has a lift / escalator and stay near the station.
Ewha Womens University / Sinchon + Tattoo @playgroundtattoo
Woke up and went to meet up with Harris for brunch! He brought us to a Chicken Stew place and we ordered 2 ginormous dish with rice followed by yummy bubble tea. I ordered hot milk tea with pearl because it's my to-go drink whenever I'm cold. Didn't know their hot was at 100*c boiling point and burnt my tongue and everything I ate was less flavorful after that. ggwp.
Standard Tourist Shot @ Ewha Girl's University
Headed to Playground Tattoo after that to get our tattoos done. Came across this tattoo parlor on Instagram with lots of followers garnering my attention because of their fine drawing lines and minimalist black-white art style.
It didn't hurt at all, not even an ant's bite. The feeling's similar to using a ball pen to write on your hand. Maybe it's their technology, maybe it's at the body part that's not painful? Definitely gonna go back to Korea for tattoos next time. Not very expensive compared to Hong Kong.
Running Man Themematic Park + N Seoul Tower + Hello Kitty + Ssentoy
Bought our tickets via klook for convenience. Running man themepark was really fun! We played many RM games such as screaming into the mic. A korean staff came up to me to ask if i need help, I replied in my beginner korean and she said i sounded like a local :D (Is it that means I can marry Jeonghan) HAHA I can dream.
N Seoul Tower was so damn cold, we went up; took pictures and came down OTL. Chanel & Winson walks very fast, I need time to take pictures man! Can relax?
Gangnam: Kpop Star Road + FNC + JYP + SM + Pledis + Coex Mall + Casino
Won few hundred bucks of pocket money in big/small !! I got so stressed up guessing and stopped playing so harris took my spot and won quite a few hundreds too. He says to look at the dragon, I was winning (hence the dragon line thingy), so he continued my dragon and won too. I'm goddess luck, always bless people around me but not myself. Rage
MBC Hallyu Theme Park + Mapo Agricultural Market + Han River
Strawberry Farm + Nami Island + Petit France + Morning of Garden Calm
Coldest weather experienced. NEVER wear sport shoes, Chanel ALMOST froze her toes at Morning of Garden Calm. The garden lightings were glorious but the winter wind no give chance. Good to experience ONCE and never again :/
Pro tip: Look for Campfirep place at Nami Island. I kid you not, you need it to heal your HP (just like in TERA).
Bear Town Ski Resort
We came, We fell, We didn't conquered.
Chose snowboarding because SVT snowboarding in "OFD Japan" looked fun and easy. Well, SORRY it's not !!! My butt hurts my back hurts T^T Why Jeonghan so pro, he really is super athletic despite always acting like a lazy slob.
Hanbok + Gyeongbokgung Palace + Tosokchon Ginseng Chicken + FNC WOW Cafe
TBC.
MBC Gayo Daejun 2017
Slept till noon and had lunch nearby our airbnb. By far the best 'Korean' meal I had! Their food and shop interior had a homely feel to it. It you like 'home-cooked' food, you'd like this.
Fairly simple, but very delicious.
Made our way to MBC, a 1 hour + journey to try our luck and see if we could get tickets for Gayo Daejun Festival! We read online that there will be people selling tickets at the venue and tbh, it's all a lie. I guess unless you're Korean or know how to speak intermediate Korean, you won't be able to buy tickets that easily. We can't even differentiate who's selling extra tickets, fans and sellers all looked the same.
Found SEVENTEEN's queue line because Carats were wearing Dynafit's winter coat :D We went and ask some fans how do we get tickets and they told us we had to apply online and get a 'queue number' but we were too late damn... I was feeling quite intimidated because firstly, we don't look Korean. Secondly, the one leading the queue didn't look very friendly..
Weather was getting colder by evening so we went to a 7-11 inside MBC's building and sat there to warm ourselves. There was a stage right outside the 7-11 so we assumed that 1 of Gayo Daejun's stage would be this. Found out that there were many 'stages' for Gayo Daejun and some stages had bee pre-recorded and SVT was one of them. Halfway through we heard some rehearsal going on and....it was BTS's REHEARSAL!!! We aren't allowed to take any videos, but I managed to sneak in a little snippet in Instagram before the guard stopped us.
After the rehearsal, we went back into the 7-11 to lie low and went out to join the crowd when Gayo Daejun went live. I don't think we were allowed to watch and everyone had their wrist tags except us. Nobody chased us out either so we ended up watching Gayo Daejun for FREE :D Managed to catch Pristine & Gfriend LIVE. We could have waited for other groups and BTS was scheduled at the end, but it was getting late so we went back to our airbnb. LOL. Army friends gonna rage saying "YOU CAN WATCH BTS LIVE FOR FREE BUT YOU WENT HOME?!?! WTFBBQ " #sorrybuticameforSeventeenkk
End, angelseah :)
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