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excuse me excuse me what's up you like
her new hair I hope so yeah so we're
here in South Korea it feels amazing
now I was nice enough to visit me at the
airport yesterday
what have we done since then not too
much we had a nice sandwich and coffee
for breakfast and we're staying in a
neighborhood called Hongdae Hongdae is a
pretty hip area a lot of young people
and we're gonna show you Hongdae some
other time but today we're going
someplace special where we going today
yeah we're going to tono area and Jong
no yes no no no history care part two so
yeah I don't know very well because I
don't yeah nari is actually from another
city to the south called Daegu yeah so I
came to visit Korea nari came from her
city up to Seoul so this is a bit of a
holiday for both of us yeah it's gonna
be fun yeah let's go get that subway
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nice nice weather I didn't need coats
right so as you guys can probably tell
the subways in Korea are incredibly
clean incredibly modern and sometimes
very busy so be careful
Lou Lou : mm-hmm
all right so you got off the train we're
now close to an area called Exxon dong
and from what I understand it's a pretty
hip area a lot of cool restaurants and
cafes I just got off a 20-hour travel
day yesterday so if I seem a bit crazy
or out of it if you guys could see my
eyes behind these you would see that I'm
very jet-lagged today so excuse any
craziness from my side
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so to help deal with my jetlag I just
chucked something that is very popular
in Korea and that is little cans of iced
coffee and I also had a triangle kimbap
bacon and mayonnaise
kip-up is a very popular Korean treat
with seaweed and rice did I get it right
it's like a Korean I actually used to
live in South Korea if you guys didn't
know that I was an English teacher here
for about eight months but that was
before we met so it's pretty cool to be
exploring with a local you more local
than me
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so I guess this is a crepe restaurant
Wow look at that desert this place looks
pretty popular huge line above the door
that must be a very popular dessert
place it reminds me of El Morro in
Mexico City our favorite churros right
we have to let people know that food and
drink is a big part of Korean culture
yeah desserts too
oh that's cool is that Chinese at the
back
so guys this neighborhood is famous for
having some of the oldest buildings in
Korea this little style alley is very
popular from traditional Korean
architecture but with all the new
buildings in Korea you don't see so many
of them anymore so this area has got old
buildings but a lot of new restaurants
and bars so yeah it's a cool place to be
I always feel like I'm very badly
dressed in Korea because everyone here
loves buying new things and loves
dressing very stylish you know very
stylish country you know I can't even
really explain what it feels like to be
back in Korea after all this time it was
five years ago that I moved here to be
an English teacher that was right after
University it was my first real like
adult job and I moved from Canada to
Korea on my own I didn't know anyone
here I didn't speak a word of Korean I
didn't know the food I didn't know the
culture I didn't know anything it was
just a big adventure and it was that
adventure that really kind of inspired
me to keep traveling and to keep
exploring new cultures so even though
there's still a lot that I don't know
about Korean culture it was the moment
that kind of pushed my life in this
direction so I have a lot of love for
Korea and a lot of a lot of positive
feelings now that I'm back here because
this is an older neighborhood you see
some people dressed in the older Korean
style from I guess the 1920s it's pretty
cool who oatmeal's dealt all my favorite
beer
wait what is it ramen
kimchi ticket reddish-yellow while
you're like plus yeah reading manga
which is six comics read comics okay and
how much is that u.s. dollars four or
five not bad so you come here you got
all that food and you can read their
comics for one hour that's pretty cool
said to fear set and compasses and I
kind of Cheers
if you guys are wondering why we're not
trying any of these restaurants it's
because they all have huge lineups like
that yeah there's a lot of cool-looking
restaurants but just a little bit too
busy today very much too busy it looks a
bit nicer today than I used to so this
building used to be an old hotel and now
it's kind of a coffee shop and Oh cake
factory oh my god you see cake factory
well this is cool yeah I guess the cake
factory's closed
so you can really see how this used to
be a hotel in fact this here you can
tell they just broke this wall down and
expanded it into this this cafe
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nope well we made it to the top and you
can see how tiny those places below a
cellar huh huh I didn't even know when
we walked inside we'd have a view like
this but this is pretty awesome looking
down on Exxon dong what did I say rock
yeah yeah you're surprised to see it for
their Korean can be a hard language but
when you have a Korean girlfriend it
gets a little bit easier anyway I think
this is a cool first video for Korea
because to me what makes Korea special
is that it's a unique mix of the old and
the new you know and this place is
obviously a very old neighborhood you
can see the traditional style buildings
but the shops that you have inside here
are very modern very hip you know a lot
of young people walking around and I
think this specific mix of old and new
is what yeah
what makes Korea what it is
you agree with that yeah cool so guys
we're gonna say goodbye to Exxon Don
then we're gonna go get some food
because here it's just too busy so we're
gonna see you at the restaurant
as always guys I'm Dan from the new
travel it's been so long since you've
been in a video see you next time
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