Destination: Seoul Zombie Walk / Halloween in Hongdae (2010)
Hongdae may well be the perfect place for Halloween in Korea. The scene is already set – clubs and bars are open until 6am, and the locals come dressed and prepared to stay out late. The Lady in Red and I did not start in Hongdae, however. Instead, we met up at...
Getting around Korea: understanding bus / train tickets
The good news about Korean bus and train tickets is that they’re fairly intuitive and easy to figure out once you’ve seen a few of them and can read Korean. The bad news: there are many different kinds of tickets, each just a bit different. If you can figure out the...
Baz Luhrmann says: Eat Kimchi
Author’s note: full copyright credit for original text goes to Mary Schmich, an author for the Chicago Tribune in 1997. Find the original article here. Baz Luhrmann made it into a popular song in 1998. For the entire history of the song / text, Wikipedia has you...
Destination: Golden Splendors – The Royal Tomb of Silla (National Museum of Korea, Seoul, South Korea)
Once buried under tons of rock and dirt, this exhibition of (mostly) authentic relics from Korea’s Silla Dynasty is given new life – and exhibit space – decades after they were first discovered. Dating back to the 4th and 5th centuries, they tell the...
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