Best Western Seoul

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... I was concerned the further from Itaewon, the better.  He said it was clean and decent and $45 a night so I am picturing a Best Western.  But then as I find out, the plan is to go out that night in Itaewon.  It was like ...

... (including the ATM, it shuts at 10 oclock). After all that we got a god nights kip and headed out on the streets. Seoul is really clean and really safe. Shops had REAL mobile phones outside on display, stores all left their doors open and unattended and ...

... a place called Incheon which is where the Asian games are going to be held in 2012. Its like a new city still being built. Seoul is very very grey with little or no colour to it. Buildings grey, place looks like its still being created from nothing, ...

... I figured I ought to know what it had. I don’t know how to describe it really….a long street filled with Western joints…McDonalds, Quizno’s, Burger King, etc. You also find more American stores lining the streets like Nike, Adidas, ...

... , was having them sit in one of my advanced conversation and discussion classes.  This particular class is especially interested in Western culture and were looking forward to meeting my parents for some time.  They LOVED my parents!   They ...

... , there was an interesting combination of the old and new.  Since this palace was built later, it had some Western influence... One of our other favorite places to go in Seoul was Myeongdong.  It was a shopping district ...

... of buildings occupied by western powers and foreign missionaries (as the area was then Jeong-dong, the old capital), the modern western-style buildings became incorporated into the grounds of the palace property.  Altho’ it’s now only a ...

... city in North America. The way people dressed, the way people acted, they way they interacted, the buildings, the layout all feel Western when you ignore the Korean signs. This isn’t necessarily true one-on-one or in a restaurant, but walking around ...

... Moreover, large shopping malls like Avatar or Migliore and department stores are present there as well. It also houses many western and traditional restaurants, headquarters of various banks and so on. Su Yeon even told me that groups of Japanese ...

... nbsp; The plain and simple answer is- I applied to a bunch of jobs (both teaching and regular), and this school in Seoul gave me the best offer.  Q: So, you're only teaching just because it's the best offer you got?  That doesn't sound like ...

... 't talking to himself it transpired, he had company. In my tired confusion I couldn't weigh up whether his partner was western or native Korean. They weren't doing all that much chatting anyway. Soon after their brief exchange came the slow smacking sound ...

... of the dancers, although not all of it was true bellydancing. Video : Opening Act http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTmECyGJqUE Video : Western Bellydancer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqLDQPHOKsM The lady I was sitting next to, who in fact was one of the ...

... to find a capital city I've really fallen in love with.  To be completely patronising, Seoul is not without its charms, and the abundance of "Western" food (Western drink!), the availability of reasonably sized clothes and the huge diversity in its ...

... their 30th anniversary burger, which was really the shrimp burger and bulgogi burger in one.  It was quite good and not having western food in a while it was a nice change. It took roughly 45 minutes to get to the folk village, and that was ...

... in seeing an industrialized "1st world" Asian country with a real economy not based on doing all the crap work outsourced by their western counterparts. The 90 minute bus ride from the airport gave me a chance to see different parts of the city. ...

... was build or rebuilt around 1904 during a great fire that hit the place. Quite a few of the buildings were in the western columnar style, although a lot were in the tranditional eastern pagoda style. Near our guesthouse, we had Pizza School for dinner. ...

... reckon it was full. SO thez put us all in the best western. Nothing like the great westerns in Australia, this was a 5 star best western, weird. Weather wasnt bad, quite humid, like alot of asian countries i guess. Thez gave us a dinner voucher for ...

... and also stinking. Despite these two muppets we were able to navigate Seoul airport with ease and arrive at our hotel, the Best Western Premier Songdo Park Hotel. It was actually surprisingly nice. After some bizarro food on the plane we tucked into the ...

... and stay at a guest house there, but couldn't put it together. It was already night time, so he went with me to the Best Western Incheon Airport Hotel and slept on my floor. We watched some Korean television, which seems to consist of lots of episodes of ...