today i'm incredibly excited and also nervous excited because in just a few hours we're gonna
be hopping on a plane to go to south korea nervous because for the first time since
our parents joined us on this trip we're going to a place that i don't really know
anything about it just feels so foreign i just i just don't know that much but first we have
to pack up all of our stuff and leave what i think is the fanciest and best hotel on our trip so far
after a glorious week in langkawi we made it back last night to kuala lumpur and then we're
gonna hop on the cheapest flight there is from kuala lumpur straight to seoul
it costs 250 dollars one way no food no drinks probably also no sleep please be under seven
please be under seven wissai's first new album in five years since gangnam style coming out just
as we were leaving it felt like everything was coming together for us to make it into south korea
and that right now was the perfect time to go what perfect timing that is at least that was the hope
ready to go to south korea i started feeling those same jitters that i keep getting every
single time we go to an airport to take an international flight like did i mess up the
paperwork or did i forget this vaccination or did i type a six instead of a four somewhere
but the thing that i realized right when we got to the airport is that i could no longer be the
tour guide once we got there i couldn't recommend a favorite restaurant i have absolutely no idea
how to get to the hotel and i know literally nothing about the area that we're staying
honestly i'm feeling pretty useless
before my control issues come to the surface here too much let's uh let's get back to the video
the things you gotta do for a budget airline and a long flight stock up on
snacks all right four hours to our flight time to go check in let's see how long this takes
so it leaves at 11 39 it gets in at 7. the only thing i'm really worried about now
is that our covent tests were booked for eight in the assumption that we would have two hours a few
hours later like four hours from the time that we actually arrived at the airport in the first place
we finally made it to the check encounter and we realized that nobody there was ready for us
the line behind us kept growing longer and longer and the feeling was pretty tense in the air the
airport about three hours now we're still just uh waiting to check all of our documents so we
can actually check in it's uh we'll probably end up being here like seven or eight hours by the
time we leave what can you do hey they took our passports making some progress made me realize
just how new this whole process was not just for them but for us and for the country of south korea
thank you very much
yes okay thank you i know it's a lot we appreciate it this whole terminal is entirely empty
no shops open barely any people just the ones on our flight the whole international terminal nobody
it's kind of weird freaky a little bit
it's kind of creepy
it's our flight our gate all the way down there there's only one other guy yeah i feel
good i still have four hours i mean it's kind of fun being here with absolutely nobody here
that's hello maybe an hour hour and a half away from departure there are only
two people in this lounge the uh the way into it still has this like barricade half across it
dude i don't know if this flight is taking off or not or i mean just look at this hallway
signs of life
it went from we're boarding to final call like now
are you guys ready
okay so just a short seven hours later we are on the plane it's all coming together they
checked our eta form thing and our cova test again and our boarding pass and now recline
whoa
check these bad boys out
after give or take 23 minutes of sleep does anyone ever actually sleep on a budget red-eye flight
how what's your secret we started our descent into seoul and even though the views were
beautiful the only thing on my mind was the upcoming gauntlet of immigration tons of
paperwork figuring out how to get to our hotel should i get cash or can i pay on a credit card
it's like less than 20 degrees celsius we haven't been in that kind of weather in forever
and where am i gonna get some pants yeah i'm gonna have a big problem today because
it's gonna be cold out i haven't worn like pants like not shorts for
nine months
some countries during the pandemic have this long list of rules that they say that you
have to do but then once you actually arrive they don't really check them all that closely
this was not our experience once we got to seoul at all okay so with the q code thing
that had all of our vaccination information in it that allowed us to skip the two lines
we got a sticker on our passport which i think means we're good to go
okay everything's been smooth so far immigration time
yay how was it well there was one wrong phone number so it took a little longer
than it should have which wrong phone number the hotel's phone number but they actually checked
even though we were through immigration and had collected our baggage and had gone through all
the checks there was still one more thing to do now we have to go take our test on arrival which
we already made an appointment for we're about 15 minutes late for even though we booked it
two hours after we arrived oh you're crying this is one of the ones where they just like
right in there and just oh okay that was super efficient the whole thing from start to finish
of registering took like five minutes next up is getting sim cards uh i asked the lady in the
testing center which provider we should go with she said that she preferred kt or skt because
they're more like 18t this is our easton station and physical sensation we finally made it to seoul
not really the airport is about an hour away from the city and we decided to try to take a taxi to
our hotel intimidated and with no ability to even speak the most basic korean phrases we stumbled
our way through explaining where we wanted to go with a combination of google maps google translate
and some very terrible charades on our part this is one of my most favorite parts of travel
communicating in any way possible that moment of breakthrough when you both understand without
words is amazing after many confused back and forth half conversations later we were on our way
in our overly fancy ride does anybody else feel like we needed a bottle of champagne for this ride
as we finally started to see soul from the windows of the taxi i
could tell the mood in the car was that of relief
excitement exhaustion and also a bit like dorothy in the wizard of oz we weren't in kansas anymore
that's for sure pretty much everybody fell asleep as soon as we got in the car we are all just wiped
energy level all the time home really hopefully we can check in long day we blew some area points so
we can get a little bit of a fancier place today this isn't this isn't normal okay we
gotta wait 30 minutes for the room so i'm gonna go on a sandwich mission we're all super hungry
walking into the convenience store felt like seeing a massive wall of those
bye by the pound candy bins you see at the grocery stores in the u.s
it all looked amazing and i had absolutely no idea what any of it was god just the nicest people
here just the nicest people every single person we've interacted with invariably has been just
i don't know what i just did maybe i should hit that button every single person we met
have been so nice so kind this dude like helped me cook this whole meal and we you
know we couldn't really talk to each other but we had a good time we were having a good time
i love this place our first meal in south korea burrito of sorts yeah yeah it's like a big um a
big big roll i thought it's great we haven't slept in about 36 hours not sure if that's coming across
the camera but that's where we're at right now um we obviously yeah okay we'll see you tonight
oh what year is it oh at least it's still daylight now it's time
to go and see this place i have one problem that i need to solve first
as we finally got out of our hotel and started walking around our neighborhood
we were blown away by just how alive it all felt so many people today
neon signs barbecue restaurants overflowing with people in smoke the sound of questionably
good but fun and contagious k-pop coming from the karaoke bars i know we're just in a very specific
and small part of seoul that i love it already this walking street is full of amazing good foods
it smells so so good we're on the hunt for some kbbq i'm sure we'll find it it
all felt like a wonderland of newness and we couldn't figure out which one of these
incredible restaurants to choose for our first dinner that was until we saw this one
as we made our way up the stairs in this beautiful traditional wooden house that
smelled like grilled meat from wall to wall we realized that we honestly had no idea
what we were doing we were excited hungry and didn't have a clue about how any of it worked
but with the help of the incredible kbbq sherpa showing us the ropes we just dove right in
do an awesome first impression of okay then we also got these scissors i'm not
sure what to do with those yet at all got a bottle of soju for like four dollars
and we got some kimchi and this place smells amazing and it's the coolest well first we
had to find our chopsticks turns out they're hidden right under the table that's awesome
our sherpa then brought us our first giant plate of thinly sliced rolled meat and showed us how
all this works turns out you order the meats uncooked by weight and then they fill up the
rest of the space on the table with so many side dishes that you don't have space for anything else
that's really really good wow everyone takes turns cooking or taking food off or pouring soju
or sharing rice or refilling empty side dishes so what do you guys think so far
super fun we fell in love with the style of eating immediately korea was off to a really good start
that was so good that was so good i mean like it's moments like this it's times like this when we're
walking around a place like this you just wonder where am i how did i get here what am i doing here
everything's so amazing and confusing and wonderful and i can't read anything and it's just
what a good day you're in south korea you're in seoul i know it's so exciting to be here it's so
beautiful and well lit and there's just so much energy for as much as i thought that seoul
and south korea would feel different as it just started to reopen and i thought it was going
to be quieter and low-key but happened it turns out that i never had to be a tour guide here in
the first place i just had to let go and trust that south korea was going to take care of us
i guess we could start up by singing there's no law against that nobody wants to hear it
but i don't care anyway you're gonna hear me singing now how do i stop this video
how do i start this video lisa tell me how i should start this video i told you she already
told me sometimes filming in bathrooms is really weird but when the bathroom is this nice why not
someone's gotta do it someone's gonna play super little bits it might as well be me my
girlfriend so many kills you're not using my toothbrush are you no no no take it out
of your mouth take it out of your mouth i can't tell girl get my face out there we go it first
hurt my feelings and then uh microwave it look at this oh can you put the the hand behind the thing
so it can focus what you know like the beauty ones do it that looks terrible oh you had it yeah
i mean i've worn shorts i've worn stuff on the bottom of my legs i just have never worn like
i've been wearing shorts for i've been wearing shorts exclusively for 9 months
what do you got to tell us so many things to say