Monthly Archives: January 2009

Finally Found It!!

I finally found the neon-mecca I’d been looking for since July, when I first got to Korea.  All the bars, restaurants, arcades and Karaoke rooms you could want in a few blocks.  Heaven!

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Seoul Tower Death Hike

I must have done something wrong this day because Janna forced me to walk all 4 billion steps uphill to reach Seoul Tower.  Thankfully, after our asthma-inducing hike up the hill (on my bum knee, no less) we were able to enjoy the beautiful view of… fog.  Just our luck, but hey, at least there...

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More From The DMZ

A few more from our DMZ trip.  Really can’t overstate how surreal and mesmerizing place this is.  Two sides ready to throw down at a moment’s notice… and plenty of silly tourists to get in the way. Totally sucks that we missed out on the daily DMZ B-Boy Battle: Your mandatory, “I’m a Friendly, Don’t...

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National Museum of Korea – Part 1

I spent the afternoon exploring Korea’s National Museum.  So many amazing artifacts to see, but I was slightly disappointed that more than a few were replicas. A clay brick engraved with a Korean song: Gold statue: Ancient bell: Carving used to print maps of Korea. This elaborate contraption was used to display the tiny printing...

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A Worthy Reason to Drop the Diet

Greasy, sweet, cinnamony, crispy, peanuty… and only 70 cents.  Diet, what diet?? Yes, that is a tub of hot lard/oil/artery-clogging liquid-goodness: Drooling yet? It makes me so happy inside!

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