Seoul Day 1 - Arrival and Dongdaemun!

We set off on 21st May from SG to HK. Cos we took cathay and is not a direct flight! For me i dun mind stopping over at HK cos i love her and i was so excited about HK that i asked for the arrival card!!! hahaa... We reached HK at about 10plus nite time. Our next flight is 0020 thus we have ard 1 hr to slack and we went to relax in a cafe.

our plane at Changi!

on the plane!

After another 4 hours flight from HK we finally reach seoul! I was lucky cos the 3 seats beside me were empty so i can slp on the plane! Seoul is 1 hr ahead of us. So we reached around 5am in the morning. 5 am is pretty bright there already. 1st thing we do is to buy T-money, which is their ezlink.

on AREX to change to subway line

early morning AREX no ppl one

the panel tat shows where u are

Then we took AREX which is their airport express to change subway to our hotel. Our service apartment is located at Dongdaemun Stadium which i mistook to be Dongdaemun Station, my bad and we had to change train again. Our luggages are quite heavy loh, but luckily is onli one station difference.

The description on the apartment's website says 60m from exit 12 of the station but is not true! We walked like maybe 600m? haha. It took us like almost 2 hours to travel from airport to the apartment. 1st timer, it can be faster de. But this is the cheapest method cos it cost less than 5k won ($6) per pax.

We can't check in yet cos the staff says check in time is 2pm so we left our luggage and went for breakfast! The very 1st Korean restaurant we went in we have language barrier liao. In the end we resort to pointing at the pictures. haha...

the setting of a typical korean rest

the owner, we think he looks like 小新's dad

xy and reen

side dishes, kimchi and xyz

reen's order - korean 泡面

this is smth like 鱼片汤 but is nicer! the soup is tasty!

luckily got pics

After breakfast is onli ard 11 am so we went to walk ard. We went to this shopping mall call hello APM. There is a few apm in korea, they are sister shopping mall i think. Every level has their own categories just like normal shopping mall but the onli difference is tat they do not have a shop and is more like a stall. We were all very tired cos we nv slp well on plane and i was dozing off while shopping with them at the accessories lvl! hahaha...

hello apm

looking at dresses

We then went back to the hotel lobby to rest, and 3 of us fell asleep on the sofa. Woke up like 45 mins later and asked for check in and they let us check in! like half an hr earlier. Maybe they pity us... The room is quite big, everything is for 2 so we asked for extra pillow and towel. Then we decide to slp till dinner time then go out again!

our room, on the left of my luggage is 2 working desks

our beds, which we combined to one

facing the bed is TV! but is not LCD like wat i saw from website!

After nap, we went out again! First was dinner at a porridge stall which turn out to be a pleasant surprise! The Kimchi tuna porridge is very nice! As we were staying in dongdaemun area, shopping is really convenient for us! Dongdaemun shopping is divided into 2 parts - wholesale and retail. There is really a lot to shop! But not all the shop inside the wholesale mall are willing to sell one piece de.

kimchi tuna porridge!

side dishes, 紫菜，苏东, tuna and raddish

seafood porridge

doota shopping centre (retail)

Area 6 (wholesale)

U:US (wholesale)

路边摊 - 炒年糕，炸鱼，寿司

Mr WoW sausages

The porridge are not tat filling so we went to roadside stalls and bot sausage while walking ard too! Is again 买东西吃东西，买东西吃东西! hahaha. We then went to the tourist information to ask where exactly is all the pasar malam cos we feel tat it is not 热闹 enuf as described by the 天书 i had. Then the person told us bcos of the rain most of the stalls will open at ard 10pm instead of their usual 8pm. And true enuf at 10 plus the market is like just started!!! Really can shop till 天亮. After another hour of shopping, we went to buy some snacks and drinks from the super mart and return to apartment.

To be continued... Day 2.

Cheers, 全部的神仙保佑我吧！