If you followed me on Snapchat or Instagram, you would know that I recently just arrived back from a week at Korea! I traveled with my very good friend, Joanne and had a blast of a time because we really went to so many places to the extent that we have nowhere new to head to in the last few days.
We booked our flight through a promotion on Scoots website early this year. The flight consist of transfer at Taipei. It was so tiring and I barely slept on the plane because I was not used it. On 25th May, the flight was at 12 p.m. and my dad fetched the both of us to the airport at 10 a.m.. We checked our luggage in, grabbed some McDonald's since it was going to be a good long 4 hours flight to Taipei. We did not want to starve till the second flight which was when we had ordered in-flight meals beforehand.
Took the usual mandatory OOTD,
I did not bother to apply any base makeup at all since we will reach Korea at night.
After the arduous flight, we finally reached Incheon airport!
Here was us waiting for the Airbnb apartment owner to pick us up.
So after she came with a huge black taxi to fetch us to her apartment, she explained that we were going to have a change of accommodation because there was an issue regarding some psychopath. Long story short, we were very lucky and will be safe in the apartment she brought us to. Due to that, we had some change of plans in our itinerary but nothing too drastic.
One thing I love about Korea is their really accessible subway and makes it so fast to get to anywhere! If you are going to Korea, I highly suggest downloading this app called "Subway". It is a blue icon and I rely on it so much whenever I travel to Korea. It allows foreigners to easy make sense of the transfer lines and you can just search the stations instead of painstakingly look for them. There are so many different colored lines, Singapore subway is nothing compared to theirs.
The next day, we walked to COEX which was about 20 minutes. Outside the building were these cuties and we had to take pictures with them!!
It is obvious who my bias in EXO is ;") This place is a must go for SM fans!!
On the second floor they sell so many merchandises but I did not purchase any.
They had EXO standees everywhere, I had to take pictures with them! (Oops sorry junmyeon, I chose jongdae keke)
I love all the artist from SM, it is my little unrealistic dream to be one of them~ Here are some pictures of the interior of the building.
On the third floor, there was a SUM x Emart where they sell food with the artists endorsing them. I purchased EXO jjajangmyeon and Fx onion and cheddar cheese chips which were pretty good!
For those curious about the EXO jjajangmyeon, there will be a future post about it soon! There was a cafe too where they sell food and cutely designed bottles with lyrics of random SM songs printed on them but I did not buy eventually. The decor was so cute and they had the artists raid the area with their signatures and doodles!
VIVA POLO
Next stop, we headed to Myeongil Station for Viva Polo! It was at Exit 1, just walk straight and turn right and you will the restaurant next to a noraebang! It will be useful if you do know how to read korean to get around the places in general.
This is the address:
1631 Yangjaedae-ro, Myeongil-dong, Gangdong-gu, Seoul
(서울 강동구 양재대로 1631)This is the subway map I took.
It was literally a mini shrine when you enter the narrow stairs to the second floor, chanyeol everywhere!! If you love this cutie, you must go there!! His mum is the sweetest too, she showed us to our seats and took our orders~ I ordered the kimchi spaghetti and Joanne ordered the pomodoro. If you cannot take spicy food (or even if you can but not too well), I suggest NOT to order the kimchi spaghetti. This dish had chilli seeds sprinkled all over and my stomach was burning after painstakingly cleared the plate. I swear the girl behind me ordered this too because she was coughing so badly. However, if it was not that spicy, this dish is perfect with the fusion of western and korean all together.
Joanne's crab pomodoro was really good on the other hand. She ordered it because it was kyungsoo's favourite (guess who her bias is LOL). It was tomato based and not spicy at all! Although I must say you have to use your hands to eat the crab meat, other than that, I will order that if I ever head to Vivapolo again!
KAMONG CAFE
After that fulfilling lunch, we headed to Kamong! Being a jongin bias, it was a place I had to go!! (and try my luck if his noona was there) Alight at Seoul National University of Education or in korean it is 교대역, Exit 1. Walk all the way straight after about 5 roads then you will see it at a corner on your right. Look out for its cafe logo at the side popping out of the building!
This is the address: Seocho-daero 64-gil (서초대로64길)
The drinks were so good even Joanne said it was comparable to starbucks standard~ I ordered a choco mint and she ordered a mocha. There was even a jongin signature on the counter tile!! Sadly, I did not manage to see his noona.
HAN RIVER
After that, we alighted at Express Bus Terminal Station (Seoul Subway Line 3,7 or 9) to do some shopping which is also the station to get to the Han river. Sadly, I do not have any pictures of the area but it is so worth it to go!! We took up about 2 hours to only complete half the place. There were many clothing and shoe stores, not much of bags. I bought so much from there, even more than Ewha University where I normally do all my shopping at.
To get to Han river, get out at Exit 8-1. Go straight for 250m, turn right at the 4 way intersection then continue going straight for 400m. I have a map below! Generally, just follow any of the many couples heading there too especially when you are going to catch the 8pm or 8.30pm banpo rainbow fountain timing. We managed to tail behind two girls and caught the 8pm one.
Isn't it so picturesque? <3 Highly recommend to use a proper camera to capture the moment and when the sky is not too dark yet! The fountain lasted for about 30 minutes. We brought some kimbap which we purchased at the Express bus terminal station. Having kimbap with such a lovely scenery was so relaxing! I really wish we have somewhere like this in Singapore.
More of the other days I spent in Korea in the links at the side!
Thanks for being here,
Jinny
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