Seoul Day 4 - Coex Mall, Seven Luck, Lotte World!

4th day, we decided to go to COEX mall and then the casino and lastly the Lotte World after 5pm. COEX mall is smth like our Suntec, cos beside it there is a convention center. It is the largest underground shopping center in Asia!

co-op residence, our next apartment! sister of western co-op residence and is just another 100m away from western

xy and reen @ COEX

xy and me

ARTBOX, sell all those cute stuffs, tat day i just realised JP also have one! But the price diff is WTF...

We went to had lunch at Kraze Burger. It's a Korean fast food chain serving American Burgers. They do not have long history, abt 10 years onli but they have abt 25 outlets in Korea. The serving of the burgers are not really as big as Carl's Jr but they are nice! however i find them a bit ex cos they dun have set meal one and one burger cost ard SGD10. There were so many choices haha but mostly all beef de!

Kraze Burgers

inside Kraze Burger COEX

xy ordered ham sandwich

reen order some beef burger

my order, with egg de!

we finished everything and start fighting with the swords!

of cos we nv eat mac there! just wanna show the korean signboard nia

kimchi museum but is closed when we were there! think they nd to pao the kimchi :P

saw this sign! haha is a GYM loh... lol

there is a aquarium at COEX mall but we nvr go in cos we think is not worth it, cost ard SGD17 per pax

went to 7 luck casino instead! haha and we played Blackjack! 1st game we 万里 liao! Hee lucky! one bet is 10k won! in the end we won like 80k! swee!

7 luck lobby, onli foreigners allowed in the casino!

After winning some $ we proceed to our next destination, Lotte World! It's 3 stops from Coex, at subway station Jamsil. Exit from subway staion walk abt 5-7 mins can reached liao. There is also a Lotte Hotel ajacent to the theme park! Lottee World is the largest indoor theme park in the world! After 5pm, the entrance fee is cheaper by 9k won and after 7pm is onli @ 14k won. Normal fee is 35k won! As we spent most of out day at COEX we reached Lotte World at ard 7pm so we bot the 14k Won tix!

reen

the lotte mascot!

xy and reen at the south entrance!

we dunno wth is this 2 but just snap!

the indoor skating ring! really big!

xy and reen @ 旋转的木马

xy and me on the 木马

reen and xy, after the 旋转的木马 stops

a must take pic, 天国的阶梯 famous scene - 旋转的木马

then we took a rest at one of the cafe

prison break!

阶下囚 1

阶下囚 2

阶下囚 3

We then took the monorail to the outdoor theme park.

outdoor theme park castle! a bit like disney land hor?

The Gyro Drop and Gyro Swing are the top crowd pleasers where u can free fall from 70 meters, or taste the thrilling sensation of being inside a tornado. I wanted to try the Gyro freefall but was a bit ham to go alone! I admit i weak! Instead i tried another freefall which is shorter in height but it goes up and down 3 times! Also very thrilling!

3 of us then took the Gyro swing which not bad too. The thrilling part of the swing is that ur shoes or bag may drop into the river! cos the machine will swing out to above the river! Then we also went to take the bumber car! Haha have to queue like 20 mins loh and play for 5 mins. We wanted to go to the ghost house but too bad is closed liao.

Then we went back to the indoor theme park to take the hotair ballon! The ballon will go ard the indoor park for us to see from birdeye view! I notice a lot of couples come to Lotte World, i think is a must go place for couples to pat tor! hahaha.... Imagine a guy have like 10 gf b4 then he must have came here 10 times!!!!

me and xy on the indoor hotair ballon

behind me is the Gyro Freefall which is 70m and fall at 100km/h suitable for yy

from the place 崔智勇 always stand to peep at her bro!

天国的阶梯 the famous painting! but this is onli a pic cos the real painting they took away liao

The theme park close at 11 pm and we went back after tat, no more night shopping cos tmr we have to wake very early to go to the DMZ!

Cheers, 全部的神仙保佑我吧！

Seoul Day 3 - 宗庙, MyeongDong, Namsam Nseoul Tower

Come to Seoul die die must visit one temple de, cos they got a lot of historical temple. I also dunno why we choose this but is recommended by some webbie, not the 天书. The best is, it is near our apt(2 subway station away)! hahaha...

We went to jongno-3-ga station (钟路三街) where the Jongmyo or 宗庙 is near to hoping to find some breakfast on the way but we failed! Then we went to a shopping complex which sells jewelery and tried our luck on their food court. Only like 3 stalls opened and all of them dunno how to speak English! GG man, so again we point at the pictures again...

too bad is not open is not i will try the coffee really gusto or not?

the above all 4 pics is my set meal! haha. is really nice loh esp the soup got egg and tofu and is spicy!

Then we went to the 宗庙, entrance is free got elderly thus we can see a lot of elders inside. Is more like a park to them! hahahaa.

this is actually pine tree but we call it '中指'树

nice? 3 diff colours

trying to act like in 古装 show to poke through the paper window

name of the kings and his queens

Jongmyo Shrine was built to hold the ancestral tablets for the kings of the Chosun Dynasty. Thus is a highly respected place and was added to the UNESCO World Heritage in 1995.

Sinwibongando, notice the roof is flat.

Sinwibongando is the first place to hold the 19 ancestral tablets of the kings and queens

Yeongnyeongjeon was an addition bcos Sinwibongando was full

the centre is elevated unlike Sinwibongando bcos it holds the 4 generation of King Taejo, founder of the Choson Dynasty

We wanted to go to cityhall to see the nice riverfront and their "padang" but all was marred but the crowd who went to pay respect to their late president. The crowd is damn 夸张 lah, and there were a lot of 镇暴警察 to seal some of the subway exit. Also it started to rain so we gave up and went to MyeongDong cos is near to our next destination Nseoul Tower! hahaha...

xy and me @ myeongdong

reen on the myeongdong sign!

from myeongdong we can see the Nseoul tower on Namsan (南山)

see the crowd?

After a little shopping for around 1 hr, we went to eat Korean BBQ!!!! haha... This shop is recommanded by the 天书 and is really good!

charcoal

the veggie to wrap the bbq meat

since we were the first customer, they helped us cook also! haha

those pink in colour one are 五花肉，which have some fats de but when bbq till crispy crispy is damn nice!

烧酒! 20% alcohol. Keep seeing th ads on subway station and the gal is pretty! haha.

this is beef and the white thing is onion.

we even bbq kimchi! is nice to bbq them!

3 of us very satisfied with the meal! haha

this is the bbq shop!

notice my face? haha, i drink a bit face red liao

After dinner, we walked up to take the cable car to Nseoul tower. It was a long way up there, or maybe is us dunno the route. We use like 35 mins then reach cable car station! But the view is definitly worth the walk! At 1st we tot the cable car will be like our cable car but we were wrong! One cable car can stand 40 ppl loh! So packed!

Nseoul Tower from the cable car

behind us is the cable car station

below is some trail for ppl to 散步 but we decided to skip that

sunset at namsan

zoomed sunset at namsan

ang moh took this for us! angmoh can take better pics than koreans i think

behind 3 of us is seoul city!

foot of Nseoul tower

the view from the tower is good!

me @ Nseoul

xy and reen @ Nseoul

night view 1

night view 2

Nseoul tower at night

After the tower visit which we took like 45mins to get out of the tower! There were a few of taiwanese tourgroup and sunday evening is not a good time to visit the tower! We decide is still early and visit Namdaemum but to our surprise most of the shops are all closed! haha. We have to come back another day cos of the 紫菜.

closed at 10 plus???

Cheers, 全部的神仙保佑我吧！