Seoul, Korea Rep. Travel Blogs

Korean War Memorial
Aug 18, 2005 (10 photos)

... got it all taken care of but it'll take a week to process (I had to pay $50 extra for that privilege), so I'm kinda stuck in Seoul for the next 7 days. I also had to go to the USO to pay for a DMZ tour for John and Claire (I was gonna join but the ...

Don't Count Your Luck
Aug 4, 2006 (1 photos)

... couriered my passport to the travel agent within an hour. There are times when I truly appreciate being in a country like Korea, where crimes like theft are relatively rare. In another country this story might not have had such a happy conclusion. I ...

Seoul Food
Mar 25, 2005

Not much to tell about the layover accept we had the soup again. We are going to have to plan a trip to Korea soon. The airport is just not enough!!!!

This soup has Seoul
Mar 11, 2005

We are sitting in the Seoul airport. We went to our favorite restaurant here in the airport. It took us a while to find it. We had only been to it once when we were here during a layover to China. Of course we had the soup. It still gave us that feeling of ...

Dazzling city
Aug 4, 2006 (14 photos)

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seoul
Nov 29, 2007 (2 photos)

... of them are completely shit soul-less tack, based on the American culture that inflicts most things aged under 25 in Seoul. Jinie explained that Koreans take their knowledge of America almost exclusively through Hollywood and MTV. Why they want to base ...

Old Palaces, Grand Markets, and Seoul Nightlife
Aug 23, 2005 (10 photos)

... , like Sean from Ireland and Senna from Holland and out DVD room outing, but actually I'm both tired of writing about South Korea and anticipating traveling to Europe too much to continue to blather on about killing time in Seoul! So I got my Russian visa ...

Seoul - Day 137-139
Jul 9, 2008 (44 photos)

Day 137 - 08/07/08 Jumped on the bus from Kowloon to the Airport this morning at 5am to catch my 8am flight to Seoul, South Korea. Just made it to the airport before check-in closed due to the bus taking some obscure route which it didn't take in the ...

Seoul searching
Jul 17, 2006 (55 photos)

South Korea funtimes

The 20 night wait, Part I
Dec 11, 2007

· Seoul, South Korea · GMT +8:00 hours All too familiar 20 nights. That's how much time we have to kill between leaving our now-only-a-fond-memory KE camp on November 30th and reporting for our next contract on December 20th. But, having to kill time in ...

Korea's cullinary weapons of mass destruction
Feb 21, 2009

... , and will keep for many weeks in the fridge, slowly growing tangier. kimchi There are many types of kimchi eaten in Korea. Baechu kimchi, the most common variety, is made with Chinese cabbage. To make a batch of baechu kimchi: 1. 5 heads of ...

Happy New Year!
Jan 20, 2005 (79 photos)

... to have our passports checked and wear badges. We visited the 3rd Infiltration Tunnel (built by North Korea, headed directly towards Seoul), Dora Observatory (where we could see North Korea under heavy military supervision), Dorason Train Station (the last ...

Seoul Searching
Feb 12, 2008 (4 photos)

· Seoul, South Korea · GMT + 8hrs Seoul Searching So I've spent the last 11 days in Seoul just waiting to leave. Yes, I've had stuff to do, just not 11 days worth of stuff to do. So basically I've just been waiting. Again. Were I really bored right ...

The 20 night wait, Part II
Dec 19, 2007 (5 photos)

... While you'll find it hard to find them in either Ireland or Canada, you can still rent VHS movies over here in Korea (at least in this area of Seoul you can). We went to rent a DVD the other night using Jays membership only to find that DVD's were few ...

TGIO
Feb 2, 2008 (2 photos)

... Meg is no exception. Game Over indeed The first entry in this travelogue poses the 'wondering how far we'll go' question. Well, Seoul, Korea is the answer. Yep, Meg is heading home in 4 days, back to the comforts of Canada for some well needed TLC. ...

A Knock at the Door
Apr 28, 2004 (4 photos)

... . To the north, on a clear day, is Inwangsan in the distance. Running through the center is Toegyero, one of Seoul's main thoroughfares. It's a bit like having a place over Broadway looking north onto Times Square, though at times the height makes me ...

Climbing Mount Inwang
Apr 15, 2004 (5 photos)

... . There was free spring water from designated taps, and many public toilets before the climb got onerous. (On a side note, Korea has excellent public facilities. Even subway bathrooms are relatively clean, and it's the law that any building over 5 floors ...

In Front of Them All
Mar 24, 2005 (10 photos)

... pick-up lines, but this one must truly be unique. And adds to the surrealism of this experience. Surreal and intense. North Korea is the most deranged country in the world, and the border between the two Koreas the most heavily fortified. There are many ...

A Summing Up
Mar 31, 2005 (4 photos)

... the things that await me. I've had a great year in Korea, no matter the many ups and downs, and as my exit approaches I'm the happiest man in Seoul, not because I'm leaving, but because in the end I did do it well, and will do it even better down the road.

Back on familiar ground
Sep 24, 2007 (4 photos)

· Seoul, South Korea · GMT +8:00 hours Fast Forward Okay, so here I am diving headlong into an entry from Seoul, where we arrived yesterday. I know, I know. You're probably wondering where the entries for Macedonia, Bulgaria and Turkey are? Well, it's ...

Boys Night Out
Sep 17, 2004 (3 photos)

... outnumber women. Or just an unconventional way for horny people to hook up. They are certainly an extension of Korea's slightly more convoluted than average take on sexuality, where homosexuality "doesn't exist", condoms are unfashionable, and prostitution ...

I'm Afraid of Americans
May 27, 2004 (3 photos)

... the street in Itaewon in packs. Itaewon is the main foreigner's neighbourhood and close to the largest US military base in South Korea. A small mercy of the night life here is that servicemen from the base have a 1 a.m. curfew, so most clear out after ...

Transfer in Seoul
Dec 13, 2007

Plane transfer from Asiana to All Nippon to go to Hiroshima

There and Back Again
Aug 16, 2006

Back to the grind.

It's Déjà vu all over again
Sep 26, 2007 (3 photos)

... Korea assignment. Second time I was here (July - August 2004) I spent time once again between Seoul and Busan waiting for my second Camp Korea teaching assignment to begin. After both my third & forth assignments in Camp Korea (August 2005 & February ...

Pissing/Puking/Falling Down
Oct 25, 2004 (2 photos)

... the only thing missing in these figures is that ubiquitous cardboard sign, "Will Work For Food". But then, the homeless in Seoul are a lot more reticent of public exposure. These are working men for whom painting the town red leads to warming a stretch of ...

Soulful Seoul
May 10, 2008 (30 photos)

... Korea, and so we decided to spend the little time we had in Seoul, the South Korean Capital. With over ten million people, Seoul is South Korea's largest city and one of the most populous cities in the world.   We were delighted to find out on the ...

Seoul searching
May 4, 2006 (14 photos)

... the rather expensive bit of meat was more like what we consider dog-grade back home. Some interesting points about Seoul/Korea: - Korean uses an alphabet like English rather than a bajillion different characters like Chinese or Japanese. Their alphabet ...

Almost Employed again
Sep 30, 2007 (8 photos)

· Seoul, South Korea · GMT +8:00 hours Here is a quick recap of how we passed the last two days here in Seoul, the last two days, as it turns out, of our 'holiday'. We report for work later this afternoon with work proper beginning tomorrow. A working ...

The Trouble with Us and Them
Feb 21, 2005 (4 photos)

... . Professionalism and training are more standard there, while Taiwan is still a little off the beaten track for most prospective teachers. Korea is a cake walk for anyone with the right accent and skin colour. Little more than a pulse and a white face ...