good morning I'm at the Boca
International Airport this morning and
it is a Saturday it's a beautiful sunny
happy sunny beautiful
and I'm going on a weekend trip to Seoul
to Korea so you might be wondering why
are you going to Korea like what's the
special occasion there is no special
occasion that's the thing that's the
awesome thing about living in is that
sometimes it's actually cheaper to go to
Seoul Korea than it is to fly to Tokyo
and I happen to have a few days off and
like all I'm bringing is like my
backpack and I'm just going to go for
the weekend and enjoy some good food and
go shopping and hopefully kind of just
show you like how awesome is living in a
place that's like so central it's the
rest of Asia that like you basically
just fly anywhere on the wind let's go I
had my friend Dana joining me on this
trip but she's a little camera-shy so
she doesn't really appear at all anyway
compared to a few years ago traveling
these days is so simple with a ticket is
being accepted on smartphones and
tablets it's so easy to travel light and
paperless our trip to Seoul Korea only
cost us two hundred and sixty dollars
round-trip which is reasonable when you
consider Tokyo cost three hundred to
four hundred dollars this is the one you
fill out first and then when you come
back you fill out this one right I don't
know I can't remember cuz we're
embarking on a trip and then when we
come back we disembark
oh if you're a foreigner and you plan on
coming back to Japan filling out the
re-entry forms that immigration can be
the hardest part of the whole trip but
don't worry there's anything you don't
understand just take it to the
immigration desk and they'll be happy to
help you and once you've cleared that it
should be smooth sailing or flying
whatever so after taking a highway bus
from the airport our first stop was in
the popular shopping district of
Myeongdong locals might tell you it's a
little touristy and things are a little
more expensive here but when you're only
visiting for the weekend it's really
useful to have so much of Seoul
collected in one small place I don't
even mind the inflation that much and
judging by the amount of people here
nobody else does either
even if shopping isn't your thing yon
don has amazing street food in the
evening the streets are lined with food
stalls and walking up and down and
trying everything can take all night but
it's so much fun
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our second day in Seoul was dedicated to
clothes shopping and what better place
to shop than the markets in Dongdaemun
traditionally a wholesale night market
dongdaemoon now has 26 shopping malls
within a ten-block radius and the entire
district now operates on 10:30 a.m. to
5:00 a.m. the next morning
Canada yeah you love Canada that's a
very good pose look great oh I like your
shirt nice shirt
Peris oh he's posing he's posing oh he
looks good
a lot of the malls typically sells
similar items so you don't need to visit
each and every one but this is a great
place to stock up on some cheap t-shirts
and unique items hair closet a bit of a
warning for beginners though
try not to accept anything for the
listed price if you're persistent enough
you can barter the price of certain
clothing items for more than 50% off
their original selling price for tips on
price negotiation check out my blog post
in the description box below
this is so creepy what is this
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oh my god so this is the Airbnb that we
are staying at here and so it is texting
yes you are
I heard the texting sound we chose to
stay in an Airbnb apartment because it
was actually cheaper than a hotel and it
also gave us a chance to experience
living in a real Korean apartment as
well so we got coffee some pamphlets and
a Wi-Fi router which was super useful
because you can actually borrow a Wi-Fi
router at the airport but I heard it
cost about eight thousand and a day like
eighty dollars a day two for one from
the airport but at our Airbnb place they
provided one for free and provided a
spare battery so that was awesome yeah
with a washing machine and what fridge
and they stock the fridge with cereal
beer water and spicy noodles for us
which was very thoughtful go for the
stairs and there are even more beds so
there's single bed double bed TV
where I was staying my bed still messy
it included they know what's the best
part about this apartment the view a lot
of space how it floors oh yes why are
they yes the floors are heated and
slowly you can actually just like sit on
the floor and it's so warm and you kind
of just want to like go to sleep forever
but you probably shouldn't it's probably
not a good idea I would not advise going
to sleep forever but the good thing
about having heated floors is that you
feel like you could that it's possible
that anything is possible but even if
you wanted to sleep forever
you could do that because anything's
possible on a heated floor but then
you'd be dead so don't do that our
weekend in Korea went by all too quickly
but considering how easy it was to get
here I'm sure I'll be back again
although they are so close together
every country in Asia is completely
unique with their own culture and ways
of life
don't let the language or cultural
barriers scare you if you have the
chance don't be afraid to explore them
all
for more details about where we stayed
what we ate where to go and how to
negotiate prices check out my blog
because I'm updating that thing again
you
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