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Seoul Day 32- Moving out day, a day before departing, Myeong Dong and exploring more of Hyehwa!

On the 31st day night, my roomie Sheryl moved out. And... Xiuhui moved out after lunch with us on the 31st as well... Its pretty sad... and the even sadder day comes, the MOVE OUT DAY. sigh... Thankfully friendship forge in Korea is with Singaporeans!! Also, we have a few friends whom we really cant bear to leave like MoA, Nara, Logan Dongsaeng, etc

Anyway before dwelling on that further, wenjing and I are staying in Seoul one more day after the Move out day... so that means we gotta find a place to sleep in for one night! Since our dorm and school and the nearest airport bus service bus stop are somewhere near Insider Backpackers... we went to settle the lodging before this day.

Below is the airport limousine service!

Before Moving Out! I took photos around my dorm for the last time :( *weeping silently*

Get this bottle if you need water!! There is a small bottle version! Guess how much this costs??? 500won I think! Even cheaper than other small bottles that costs at least 700won...

As seen on the tag, you can get it from Homemart! You know... if you needa find water source... get this! Its really a chore to boil water!

During the exhange, we bought a kettle from Lotte Mart for about 20,000won. really cheap kind... then share it with our roomie! Cos we dont know how to use the stove... I brought my pot along though and some packets of Maggie Mee, but I suggest you dont bring those! Cos you wont be using the pot! Its hard to boil water using that too... and most of the time, you will probably be eating out with friends!

we got the blue wire from the common area laundry place and tied it in our balcony! Wenjing and my personal laundry place! haha

Packing luggage before moving out! hehhhh

Since move out time was slightly later... so we met up with yuxuan... (by then, yihui is already on her way to the airport lo...)

As you can see, our group decreased from 5 to 4 to 3... and to 2...

Rubbish at our void deck! First time man lol...

See how nicely our rubbish was placed!

Anyway, at our dorm area, or rather Korea as a whole, they are pretty waste conscious. In the sense that, they do separate their waste; paper, plastic, cans and toilet waste (for dorm)

The inner side of Hyehwa inside/along the ABC Mart side! (nearer to Naksan)

we had our breakfast at some brunch restaurant!

Back to dorm to shift out! Ok. last photo of my dorm! LOL

Clear table...

Byebye...

sigh... checked into Insiders Backpackers... They have 2 buildings! one for the backpackers and another building with private bathroom. we selected the private bathroom one! so its not the one we see (i.e. Main building) along the way to school! They will guide you over and help u with your luggages! No worries! At the main building, they have a weighing scale to weigh your luggages too! We carried the weighing scale (portable) down to the first floor to weigh our luggages and carry on!

After which, yuxuan deposited her luggage with us and went out with us while waiting for her friends to gather at SKKU area...

First and last try on the Banana Milk! Not bad for person who dont drink milk!

We went to Sindorim to visit our KSGI kaikan for the last time!

And I have no idea why we came here (Seoul station, lotte departmental store) but anyway, 10 pretty girls right! HAHA

KSGI HQ is opened!! yesh! Photo/video takings are prohibited in this exhibition hall!

The Garden!

The entrance!

No meeting = no glory hall (the hall with changing lights!)

From Sindorim station, take exit 2 (i think!) you should find yourself underground! spot E Mart sign board and you should be on the right track! Then you will see a lane of shopping stores like those in Express Bus Terminal... Get to the first floor! Its a Techno Mall (TM)!

Find this bus stop/taxi stand!

TM Building!

TM surrounding...

From the Bus stop you should board any bus that goes to KSGI. Note that their bus directory (like those you see in Singapore) its pretty confusing... people can remove the red arrow direction and stick it anyhow to confuse people... so i suggest taking a cab!

Some dubujigae at the underground of TM!

Back to Hyehwa since we are done with our tour in Kaikan and yuxuan's friends are reaching Hyehwa!

This is the guesthouse rooms with private bathroom! Fortunately, we stayed opposite of Anna! haha her room is so cute! you has laundry wires all over... aye, she stayed here for at least 30days leh.. cos no available dorms from SKKU

Insider Backpackers doesnt have electronic lock for the rooms. Only electronic lock for the main door. So... we found out that someone went into our room when we were out to Sindorim. damn pissed. I think our things were even touched by the people! Thus, I approached the cleaning lady if anyone went into our room. She said no. Then, I said, but the laptop is on! she then replied, "ah! yes! yes! cos wireless internet has some problem. we went in to check!" =.=

The room is pretty small! it has a small kitchen! But doesnt seem clean.

We had a dessert! yumz

Then we went to the Hyehwa New Balance Branch to get my darling NB Shoes!! 90,000won! aww loved :) was in a dilemma if i should get it... true enough, like what my mum said, buy la! No regrets!

After that, we explored a little in Hyehwa then... wenjing and I were deciding if we should head back to guesthouse already since its so unsafe... ended up, we decided to go Myeong Dong to do last minute shopping instead!

I only bought a few items and my beloved knit outerwear from Uniqlo! (a big white building near the station exit)

Back to Hyehwa's Lims Chicken for dinner! 7500won each for 2 people! so yummy please :( i miss leh

Korea Day 29 to Gyeonggi-do!

2nd school tour to Korea folk museum at gyeonggi-do, then Taekwondo and end with Noraebang at night with friends!

We woke up early, walked over to school in the rainy day... I remembered we climbed the slope with umbrella and me wearing slippers... lol road was pretty slippery

Anyway, we went to school early cos... we wanted to secure the bus MoA is in! but then, due to uncertainty, we changed to bus 7? we were in bus 11 by the way... End up, bus 7 tour guide is the lady who brought us around during the first school tour to Gyeong Bok Goong! We dont really like her cos she doesnt know how to control her tour group leh...

And despite being early, we couldnt be with MoA :( and I went, "모아야 어디에가요???? ㅠㅠ"

Oh! and in korea, you have to put on seat belt for tour bus when in expressway!

Anyway, reached the place!

traditional korean game!

Performance!

Performance was pretty repetitive and I was at the back so I couldnt see a thing!! Hence, I went around to snap photos when nobody was around... No photobombers!

Photobomber!

Crowding around the prison's torturing equipments! Seeing photo experiencing it themselves! and spot MoA!

MoA!

There's a prison room that tourists get to enter and pose for a photo... I thought it was pretty creepy so I didnt! There are others who did it though!

대장금!

Chimney!

성균관 스캔들! 유천오빠!!

A REAL COW!

some statue that protects the village. yin and yang. male and female.

Restrooms are available! No worries!

White horse!

Head over to the wedding ceremony!

entrance of the bride!

Lunch afterwhich! we dont have to pay for this! I suppose we have already paid for it under the Activity Fees before the exchange itself... Bulgogi for all! it was okay! For vegetarian, Bibimbap is available!

There are food place, souvenir shops, convenience shop, kpop shop, restrooms, dessert store avail in the museum!

after, its free time! we went exploring!

bus over to taekwondo venue!

it started off with the students in taekwondo suit performing to us. omg their performance seriously beyond words can explain! when they kick, punch, yell in unison, its so fantastic! u can feel their energy even far away!! its just goosebumps... should have taken a video!!

then, we were all told to get up and get down to the ground and try taekwondo! so we tried a few of their moves! we were even asked to try hitting the cushion; both kicking and punching! a few of friends went away to toilet hahah i guess they didnt want to participate! whichever it is, its pretty fun experience! i mean, we dont get to learn everything, its just trying... and since you are here in korea and taekwondo is their national sport, why not try it? no harm! worse come to worse, the students laugh at you only lo! but there are so many people trying it! laugh together lo! hahah

see skku students infront of the taekwondo people? we are actually waiting for our turn to break our pine wood! we were given one and a marker after the taekwondo experience! suppose to break what you hate, or what wishes u want to fulfill!

show you my wood later!

photo taking!

we got off outside SKKU! and then, we went to check out for Jimjilbang in hyehwa cos I read somewhere that there is one! we randomly asked one teaching assistant, and she was very kind to bring us there... partly cos she's going towards the direction to board her bus too

This is the one! Its opposite Kang Ho Dong bbq restaurant in hyehwa! Can get here from the Hyehwa station, exit 4, walk between the lane of ZioZia and Baskin Robbins... you should see a green colour convenience shop (forgot what its called), then theres a lane at the left side! Turn into the lane! u will see Kang Ho Dong man size poster!

The pricing! this is pretty small... smaller than dragonhill spa and siloam i think...

Experience (we did jimjilbang on another day):
1) On the first level where you find the counter, once you enter, you have to take off your shoes.
2) On the first level, too, you have the shoes locker. You keep your shoes in the locker assigned.
3) Head over to the ladies level for changing/showering/clean up/locker.
4) at the level, you will find the naked ladies and ahjumma! HAHHA
5) At the level too, you find your own locker, keep your bags and valuable. Change into the jimjilbang clothes. NO TOILETS. you are suppose to bathe then change... but we were shy and bathed earlier so we told the ahjumma that and we just change our clothings...
6) For jimjilbang, head over to common area for the heated and cold rooms!

we went back to the samgyetang shop that we initially wanted to eat at but was unfortunately closed!
The entrance!

the interior! we went into the room. so have to take off our shoes!

and... my pine wood! HAHHA the taekwondo guy told me, he saw snsd... walao.. like envy much la
But well, i saw them too! but that was during concert! I wish to see them up close and like get to talk to them or something? even if its awhile. but heh impossibru! cos im sure many many fans out there want that too!

And we met up with MoA and yuxuan's JYJ friends for Noraebang at night! thats the last ktv session in korea! and I finally know how to control the system hahhah