Weekend Round-Up Part Two

Well it’s somewhere between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning and I have a lot of blogging to catch up on. I really want to tell you about the President of Kumdo na hKorea but everything has to be chronological…

Weekend Round-Up Part One

Well silly old Hairy-Armpits (Mrs Sung) is a bit miffed that I didn’t get home until midnight on Monday. I tried to explain that I couldn’t exactly say no when the President of the Korean Kumdo Association invited me for tea, but she doesn’t understand. *sigh* I think I’m having my rebellious-teenager era now. I’m so misunderstood! *revs up motor-cycle*

It Was The Best of Times, It Was The Worst of Times

Today was the halfway point of my time in Korea. It began as the worst day ever, but ended as one of the best.

Konglish Is What Fillds The Void

Today I went out and did a touch of shopping in Incheon’s big underground market/mall. It follows the subway lines and takes hours to see everything. The stuff is dirt cheap and some of it is of equally poor quality. Especially the Konglish on t-shirts:

Independence Day

If there’s one bad thing about my host family, it’s that they can be TOO nice a lot of the time. I’m not allowed out to explore, there’s always somebody insisting that they’ll go along with me. I appreciate their concern and I enjoy their company, but I’m used to being independent on holidays. I’m a good traveller and I never get lost. I like discovering things for myself and learning from my own mistakes.

What The Folk?!?!

Well, you all didn’t pray hard enough – I didn’t get to go to Insadong on Saturday.

Bizarrely enough, my family decided to use that rainy day to go to the predominantly OUTDOORS Folk Village near Suwon, about 2 hours away in the car.

Like everything else I’ve seen so far, it was a-ma-zing. (!)

Seoul Sister

First off, let me say that this has nothing to do with the tragi-comic demise of the famous PopSeoul blog. RIP in Peace.

The title refers to my very first visit to Seoul on Friday 25th. It was…underwhelmed. I had a great day but all that I saw of Seoul was through the train window. We went to the National Museum of Korea and if there was anything else nearby, I didn’t see it. But that’s enough moaning for now – have some pictures:

Huzzah For The Lap Top!

I finally got my laptop up and running with an Internet connection that’s so sexy-fast you won’t believe it!

Now I can show you some of my photos taken so far~