Uljiro Co-op Residence Seoul

Travel Blogs from Seoul

It's Vacation time!!!

A travel blog entry by clenny25

Ok so I'm clearly backdating my entries now but I hope it still makes sense.
In the summer all schools and businesses take what is known as Hyundai vacation which is named as such due to the fact that the majority of countrymen are affiliated with the company and therefore it makes sense to have everyone off on the same few days.
This is a …

The touristy bits

A travel blog entry by kktong

This is a day where we do all the touristy rituals.... by rituals I mean the stuffs that the tour guide usually brings tourists to do, like shopping for local products, making kimchi, dressing up in their traditional hanboks and stuff... absolutely boring for me and half the time I have no idea where we are.........

We started off the day …

Capital City

A travel blog entry by kktong

We were brought to see several highlights within Seoul this day. After breakfast we were driven to the Presidential Palace. Upon reaching near the palace grounds, we had to alight and walk up to the palace entrance and we can only see the palace from afar. Opposite the Presidential Palace was the old GyeongBokGung Palace. I find the sights within …

Ummmm, dog burgers!

A travel blog entry by lesleyandrob

After an easy boat ride, a nice lady from the tourist information got us onto the bus to the train station where we found someone who understood us and got on the right train!! No bullet train, but still much better than UK trains. We even managed to get a ticket and on the right subway train and exit which bought us straight to our hotel in …

A little bit of culture

A travel blog entry by sarah.diaz2

... only one finger survived the fire. Although the actual original building is not still in tact a version of it has been restored. It was not long after this that King Gojong left this palace and never returned. It was not long after this in 1911 that the Japanese rulers then started destroying buildings here and it was only in 1989 that the South Korean government started reconstruction on damaged sites.

The ...