A lot of the desserts, candy, etc. we are used to are either not here or are a little on the expensive side here, at least for us. Luckily, the local grocery store sells slightly expired ice cream bars for about the equivalent of 25-75cents (we mostly get the 25 cent ones) so we stock …
When we found about the Seoul Lantern Festival, we decided it was an event we could not miss. Because the trip to Seoul can sometimes be a couple hours on the metro, we like to do a couple different things every time we go into the city. This time, we combined the festival with looking …
I have wanted to visit a cat cafe since I first heard about them years ago so this was pretty exciting for me! Kyle was pretty interested too. Info: For reference to those interested in visiting, the hours for the cafe in Pyeongtaek are noon to 10pm. Getting there: I am not sure why we found it …
On Halloween we went three places: The War Memorial, Itaewon, and the Banpo Rainbow Bridge. Because they are such different places, I will write about them separately. The War Memorial was our first stop. Heading Out, Making Friends We began our trip, like most so far, in the Songtan metro station. After the twenty minute walk to …
After the animation festival we headed on over to Insadong, which one of us will write more about in a future post. We went there with the intention of going to The Poop Cafe which is located in the Ssamzie-gil Complex (a 4-story building/shopping area.) After walking into the Insadong area, the complex is a little while down to …
For those of you who don’t know, Kyle is an animator! Because of this I decided to search for animation festivals in Korea and found this one. The Bucheon International Animation Festival (BIAF) has been going on several years (since 1999) but has also been morphing some over time. It used to be called the Puchon International …