Blogs from Asan-gun, Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea, Asia

Advertisement

Asia » South Korea » Chungcheongnam-do » Asan-gun September 2nd 2010

-- the flight from san francisco to seoul was rather uneventful, although i did end up seated next to a guy who had been teaching in seoul for 10 years so i got some great advice to ponder for the last couple hours of the flight. this was considerably better than sitting through the miley cyrus movie "the last song"(i'll admit it, i teared up and then instantly hated myself). i came out of the gate to find alistair, my contact from korean horizons. he instead found me and he was holding a picture of me with black hair seeming confused on why my hair was now blonde. we got some coffee and chatted about how the motto of south korea is "expect the unexpected." the other newbies, six boys from the us of a, showed ... read more

Asia » South Korea » Chungcheongnam-do » Asan-gun March 8th 2009

I met up with Jamie on Sunday afternoon to go to the hot springs. We met on the plane ride over to Korea. I had to take the metro to the train station, which of course I went to the wrong train station the first time around. I got a train to Onyangoncheon. It takes an hour and a half to get there from the station. Round trip the tickets cost me 12,600KW which is a little over 8 dollars. Woo hoo! I kept asking people which train takes me to *points to ticket* "here" The only guy who helped me was the guy who I'm assuming was the janitor because he was putting toilet paper on the trains. He goes "ooh yes..here.." so i get on the train. He sees me agian and goes "no..no ... read more
Outside




Tot: 0.05s; Tpl: 0.003s; cc: 4; qc: 30; dbt: 0.0242s; 1; m:domysql w:travelblog (10.17.0.13); sld: 1; ; mem: 1mb