Seoul Hostels - Reviews and Rates

Location of Yongsam Mall. This place has food, electronics, billions of cameras, camping gear, bicycles, lifestyle stuff, furniture, appliances, clothes, entertainment venues, etc. Good Times

Promise that I will update tomorrow morning, Seoul time...

Hi All, *If you haven't seen them already, you can check out some of the pictures we posted on the last entry (we did not add captions as it would have taken forever, so have fun! :P ) Today was a very exciting day! Luc and I decided to visit the Bongeunsa, which is a buddist temple. We took a long subway ride (with 3 transfers), arrived at a HU...

What a surprise Seoul was! I guess I didn't have any preconceived notions or particular expectations of Korea. What unfolded was a really pleasant experience. I found the people to be friendly, polite and somewhat outgoing, although not much English was spoken. When I was visiting the palace of Gyeongbokgung, a couple of other Korean visitors sa...

Amidst his euphoria at inventing the light bulb, I wonder if Thomas Edison had every imagined that one day entire Asian cities would be decked out in light bulbs of all shapes, sizes, colours and patterns. I know he probably thought the now humble light bulb was a beautiful thing to behold, but did he grasp just how beautiful it could one day be...

I thought i would experience something completely different and signed up to spend a day and a night at the Golgulsa temple in the hills of a remote region in S.E. Korea. The monks there practice a form of Zen Buddhism that revolves around a martial art called Sunmudo. Sunmudo is a variant on the Korean martial art Taekwon-do and focuses on brea...

The adventures are starting to unfold! This week has been packed full of adventures, and recovery. The days where I wasn't laying in bed recovering from being sick, I ventured out and saw a little bit more of Seoul. Tuesday night we went to T.G.I Fridays, craving non-Korean food. It was sooooo good! My meal cost me $11.00 and I was stuffed. I th...

So today was without a doubt my favorite day in Seoul. It started out with a morning hike with Amity up the little mountain near her house. Then I headed to the Seoul Museum of History, which I would say was at least worth the 70 cent admission. There was some really neat stuff there, but my favorite was the folk paintings from the 1700s and 180...

seoul... went to a temple with a beautiful garden inside.. parks are in-between buildings... great, as you can come down to relax for a while... tiangge area like divisoria... great buys, very cheap...