Blogs from South Korea, Asia - page 375

Well not really, we're really doing a bit of Seoul searching more than anything else............. Meanwhile back at the ranch............. So Seoul huh, that'll shock your system, for sure (as my new dutch mate says, all the time. I dinnae ken his name so I just call him 'Dutch Guy', he doesn't seem to mind). We were speaking to some dude in Australia about Korea, he said he went to Seoul and lasted a day before getting the first flight out, his reason was that it was dead big and busy and noisy and polluted and that but we though that after being in Japan for the month before that it would be a breeze, WRONG! It is brutal, huge, noisy, polluted yeah, and it stinks, big time. It really hit us for six when we ... read more

We have already described our 3 day stop over in Vancouver in some of our emails, so we won't go into great detail here. We arrived on a Satuday...picked up our processed visas at 5:40pm..or so..and by 6:00pm had purchased two one way tickets for Seoul, South Korea. Vancouver was sunny, warm and beautiful. We stayed right downtown in the most gorgeous condo ever (huge thanks to Doug and Paul). We were minutes from the water, the cool shopping of Robson St., and over 480 Starbucks'. colin... read more

Monique and I went to a palace in Northern Seoul. Gyeongbokgung Palace is probably the most famous temple in Seoul. The thing is huge and only costs about a dollar to tour the entire thing. It was a days event and was really enjoyable... read more

Welcome to the island of Wonder, Ulleungdo! , Yes it was. What a change from Seoul. Ulleungdo is known for it's delicious cuisine, including cuttlefish, fresh greens, pumpkin taffy, and medicinal beef. It has an ocean climate. It has an abudance of juniper, water, wind, and stone. We started out friday at 11:30 pm for a 5 hour bus ride . We arrived to watch the sunset (see pics) Wow, lots of Canadians on the tour well actually a lot of foriegners all in one place together! We took the ferry about 2.5 hours right over to the ulleungdo island itself. I don't want to say too much about the ride except I am glad I had gravol! Everyone was sea sick around me ! The whole boat smelled like kimichi and rice if you know ... read more

Jag åkte tidigt från Claire denna morgon, mitt plan gick strax efter åtta så fick inte sova särskilt mycket. Flygresan till Incheon var ganska kort, bara en och en halv timme. Men Claire hade gett mig en bra förvarning om vad man skulle förvänta sig av China Eastern och mycket riktigt blev planet lite försenat. Men väl framme så mötte jag upp med Kristofer, en annan svensk utbytesstudent från KTH. Han går i samma årskurs som mig och läser datateknik han med, men vi hade faktiskt aldrig pratat med varandra innan vi fick reda på att vi båda skulle till Korea. Jag antar att det är sådant som händer när ens klass är över 200 stundenter ;). Vi hade fått instruktioner från KAIST (mitt universitet, Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) om hur man tog ... read more