korea adventures
Weekly updates about the things I'm up to. Mainly so my grandma doesn't worry too much about me.
I finished one of my midterms last week, and this week consisted of midterm #2 for my digital marketing class. I just have one more midterm next week Tuesday!
Since I don't start class until late on Monday, I walked down to the market to restock on a bunch of groceries. On my way back from the market, I stopped at a restaurant for Korean food. I tried a Korean fried seaweed roll a few weeks ago, and my friend mentioned that this place next to the Burger King has a lot of Korean food which I might like. I believe the card reader was broken, but luckily I had cash on me. The worker was super nice and gave me a discount on my food because she felt bad that I had to pay with cash. There was also this vendor on the side of the road that I bought a twisted donut like thing from. I went to the GS25 as well, and when I entered, I could not understand what the worker was trying to tell me. As I walked more into the store, he kept talking to me in Korean and pointed towards the door, so I guess he was trying to tell me to leave. I'm still not sure why he didn't want me in there. I went to a different GS25 up the road to buy my musubi, and this stores card reader wasn't working as well! I later found out that SK was down, which is probably why everywhere could only take cash (and possibly why the worker asked me to leave the first GS25?). I needed a lot of food for the day because I was supposed to have class from 3:30-6:20PM and 7-9:50PM. The later class was one of the makeup classes for the holidays in previous weeks. Luckily the first class was only from 3:30-5:30, so the second class started at 6:30 and ended at 8:30. It was not fun having class for an extended period of time. Tuesday is usually my busy day, but since my Sustainable Business Management class has a midterm next week, she let us out of class really early. I bought a musubi from the convenience store and it's kimchee rice with corn and cheese in the middle. I tried this musubi before, but I swear it got 10x spicier than the last time I had it. After my classes ended, I went to a cafe to study for my Digital Marketing midterm that was just a few days away. After my midterm on Thursday, I decided to go for a walk to check out campus. My professor said that campus was beautiful, and he was definitely not wrong. My iPhone quality did not do a great job of capturing the autumn colors. Since I was on campus, I met up with a friend for dinner at Olive Tree, one of the restaurants near the dorms. We also grabbed tea at a very popular study cafe called Blue Pot. On Friday, I met up with one of my coaches friends for dinner. It is crazy what a small world Hawaii is! He took me and a few of his friends (also with Hawaii ties) to a somewhat Hawaii inspired restaurant called Katabuta near Samgakji Station. There were items like loco moco, poke, beef stew, and spam musubis, but most of the items had a Korean twist to it. The loco moco had a garlic tomato sauce, and the beef stew was made with ground beef and was spicy! We also went out for bingsu at Sulbing after. I think this is bingsu #11. This was also my first time riding in a car since my arrival to Korea. On Saturday, I participated in the SNU Buddy Squid Game. It was a super fun event, and we played 6 different games, which were the games played in the show. I didn't do very well, but I loved the creativity that went into planning the event. Later in the day, I went to Lotte World. Pro tip: buy your Lotte World tickets online from Klook to save lots of money. Since it was the day before Halloween, it was extremely crowded and definitely not COVID friendly. Even though we got there at 6PM, we were still able to watch a zombie show, ride two rides, and eat dinner all before the park closed at 9PM. I went to Hybe Insight on Sunday, which is a Kpop museum. I showed up to the museum wearing my blue surgical mask (which really makes you stand out as a foreigner in Korea), and the worker gave me a KN94 (basically what 90% of the Korean population wears) to change into. It was a very interactive museum, and I loved how digitized everything was, without taking away the feeling of a traditional museum. There was an app to download ahead of time to guide you through the museum, as well as an AR game in one of the exhibits. I'm not a big Kpop fan, but it was still fun to look around. After the museum, I ate KBBQ. I also went shopping at I Park Mall/Yongsan Station and had a shake and fries from Shake Shack. While eating my dessert, it started raining hard, and there was thunder and lighting too, despite the Apple weather forecast saying it's only partly cloudy. I didn't have an umbrella with me, and it would have been super unpleasant to walk to the bus stop to get back home. I went to Daiso to look for an umbrella, and there was a group of at least 20 people doing the exact same thing. I couldn't understand what one of the workers was yelling, but she must've been super stressed (and confused) about how many people were coming into the store.
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