Few travelers get the opportunity to spend as much time as we did in Seoul – 3 months. Most will only be visiting for a few days or maybe a couple of weeks. With that in mind, these are our itineraries for the time-strapped traveler. Considering the city is huge, there’s no way you’ll get …
The National Museum of Korea is the largest museum in Asia, and one of the largest in the world, attracting over 20 million visitors since it’s reopening in 2005. It is the 9th most visited museum in the world. We were so thoroughly impressed, we wished we would have visited sooner. National Museum of Korea …
One day, probably about a month after we arrived in Korea (yes, this is another late Korea post), Kyle and I were walking along the street before the 4-9 market (and the one the grocery store is on) and came across a little bakery called Cake Country. We had probably seen it before but just …
There were two large displays of Christmas lights north of Seoul that I/we were pretty interested in seeing: the lights in Santa Claus Village (though really all over) Pocheon Herb Island and the Garden of Morning Calm Lighting Festival. We decided we would do one of them and while I originally wanted to do Morning …
Soju wasn’t the only Korean alcohol. We also tried a few beers and wines. All of these were purchased from the grocery store or 7/11. Some drinks delicious, others were a little hard to get down. Typically, alcohol is a special occasion purchase for us but we wanted to try some of the things that …
During our visit with my friend Duncan in Hongdae, we had already finished our second trip to a cat cafe. We had decided that we wanted to go get some food, and we had run across a place called Makgeolli Station that we wanted to try. Our main reason was that we could get unlimited …