My love for Korea stemmed from a love of K-pop and K-dramas that started more than a decade ago. I’ve been fortunate enough to visit Korea both as a tourist and a student. This blog is an accumulation of all that I’ve learned and tried.
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[CLOSED] CAFÉ CHAIN: Miss Lee Café (Insadong)
I heard that this café chain was very famous, but the first question that came to my mind was: “Who’s Miss Lee?” To be honest, I still don’t know, but it doesn’t matter. At the entrance of Insadong, Miss Lee Café is easily spotted from far away, thanks to who I can only assume is Miss…
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[CLOSED] Myeongdong 56th: Army Stew in Seoul
It seems that most people know about army stew when you talk about Korean cuisine, and so we knew we couldn’t go without at least having one meal of army stew on any of our trips to Korea. Isn’t it amazing (and a lil sad) that food scrapped together from what the US army left…
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Emokdae: Underrated bibimbap in Jeonju
Our first stop in Jeonju on our Nov 2018 trip was Jeonju Hanok Village, and we thought it would be nice to have some authentic Jeonju bibimbap here. Now, for the unacquainted, Jeonju is the birthplace of your favourite Korean dish, so it only made sense that we had bibimbap here. We were famished, so…
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[CLOSED] Bibigo Gyejeol Bapsang (Dongdaemun LOTTE FITIN)
We were looking for a place to eat in Dongdaemun’s LOTTE FITIN after visiting DDP, and we didn’t want to eat back at our usual CoCo ICHIBANYA, and we actually chanced upon… A BUFFET! From my experience, I haven’t actually seen a lot of buffets in Korea, sans the BBQ ones, but even those are…
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Hair salon: LAOS MOON
I had always admired the beautiful hair that Koreans (yes, commoners and celebs alike) sported, so I thought maybe I would try having my hair done in Seoul and see if it would look, well, better. I was staying in Anam at that time, so I found this salon near Korea University that was not…
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Busan Gamcheon Culture Village: must-visit mural village
After two trips here, I figured what keeps people coming is maybe not so much the historical value, and also not so much for the gram.
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Common Ground: largest container shopping mall in the world
If you love hipster experiences, hipster places, hipster photos, hipster food, hipster fashion, basically everything hipster, Common Ground is the place to go. Common Ground is Korea’s first pop-up store built with 200 large shipping containers. Located near to Konkuk University, Common Ground is Korea’s first pop-up shopping mall that is built with 200 large shipping containers. Many of…
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Nanta Show (Myeongdong): fun must-watch musical in Korea
I got to enjoy the famed Nanta show on my first trip to Korea, thanks to the fact that we had booked a group tour with Chan Brothers. I’ve heard a thing or two about such non-verbal musicals in Korea, and Nanta is arguably one of the most famous of such shows. It’s also the…
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Paik’s Beer (Sinchon): hearty pub in Sinchon
After we gave up trying to find our 9000 won Sinchon buffet (which has unfortunately closed down), we were hungry, tired, and desperate to find another place to have dinner. We spotted Paik’s Beer along the way, and decided to just pop in and try our luck. Paik is a (sur)name that should be familiar…
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Celebrity Spottings: N from VIXX
Many years ago, I heard stories of fanclub noonas camping at TV stations with their cameras to capture photographs of idols, but I never imagined that one day, I would actually be able to witness this in person. So on a day in November this year, we visited MBC World. It’s a ‘broadcasting theme park’…