so we've been on this trip for about nine months now we've taken about every possible type of train
taking fancy ones in europe really not so fancy ones in europe the legendary glacier express
around switzerland and some really rickety most of the way terrifying vertical and horizontal
elevators in genoa italy it's really cool it's like you're in a mine shaft but the one type of
train that we haven't taken this entire time is a bullet train and that's what we're gonna
do today we're in seoul and we're heading to busan and uh hopefully no zombies let's go
however actually buying the train ticket was pretty tough all the machines for foreigners were
broken but luckily the information desk was able to help us at uh 1pm yeah our train cost about 60
per person today and it's gonna bring us all the way to the other side of the country
in just over two and a half hours so cool
seoul station is really cool much like many of the subway and train stations here in seoul
there's so many cool shops and cute cafes shopping malls even so that if you need to kill some time
while you're waiting it's a great place to do it here they even have charging stations
and of course there's a food court of course
this train is so cool looking
i'm a bit embarrassed to say this but we didn't even realize that korea had
bullet trains i mean we just didn't know
that's bright and the trains are so nice and modern the seats all
have charging ports the train is absolutely dead quiet it's comfortable it's super fast
and it even has incredible cool pretty weird vending machines i have heard that the food
on these bullet trains is incredible but i don't know where it is so i gotta go find it
there's a vending machine on the train
figuring out how to get food out of the vending machine was quite a challenge
the touchless didn't work here and neither did apple pay and neither did our t-money card that we
tried cramming in there but the little card reader did have a bunch of touchscreen buttons to press
none of which that my phone could translate so i just had to guess
a super nice and very patient crew member on the train noticed me struggling and came by to help
out this process is very much how we learned how to do literally everything in south korea since
we can't read anything it's just a process of trial and error until you get it right
or until somebody feels bad for you and comes over and helps it's actually really really fun
so they didn't have more real food on the train so i just got a bunch of snacks out of the venue
machine i was really hoping that they'd have the food cart but i guess it's not running today
first thing cheese cream cream cream cheese
besides how good and tasty all these snacks are probably my favorite part about all of this is
how cute everything is look at this packaging
it's so cute everything's so cute these are just called soft white
these are my favorite show and they have just enough crunch to
them and then the inside of them is totally soft
these are the best ones we're talking really quietly because it's
genuinely like a library in here i can hear them
it's a stark difference between here and trains in the us trains the us
are generally a place for like more people talking what trains in the us
it's honestly a bit unsettling just how fast these things go and then
to know that you're rocketing along at 200 miles an hour inside one of these
tubes and it feels like you're barely moving at all it's a little jarring
we're in the middle part of the cars where people can sit and take phone calls and just uh be in
non-silence for a little bit which is kind of nice this train goes up to 190 miles per hour
and for those of you that desperately want to know that's uh 305 kilometers per hour
have you ever had a moment in your life where you stop and think
how in the world did i get here i mean i know we literally are getting to busan on a bullet
train which is super cool but still the question remains how did we actually afford this whole
10-month long trip that we're on we're almost there that went by so fast a lot of you have
been asking us this same question and many of our friends and family have too this is exactly what
we created a whole course about even though the public transportation and trains like this one
are super affordable actually getting to south korea in the first place isn't usually cheap
but by using miles and points our parents were able to book a flight over here for literally
23.10 per person if you want to learn how to do the same the first 1000 people that click the
link in the description below will get a one month free trial of skillshare which is plenty of time
to go through our course and a few of the other great classes on there too yay we made it so nice
what a warm welcome
unsurprisingly this train station is also
impeccably designed beautiful smells like coffee has cute stores everywhere i love korea
so after that wonderful and totally zombie-free two and a half hour train ride
we are in busan we just gotta make it to our hotel now to do that we had to use
the uber or lift of korean app called cacao tea time to get us a cacao tea cacao tea is
basically the way that anybody can get a car share get a taxi rent a bike or a scooter even pay for
things like at the convenience store or pay for your actual taxi you can choose different ways
that you can pay for the taxi if you happen to have a korean credit card or a bank you can set
up auto payment through that with a debit or credit card but if you're like us and you're
visiting you can either pay the driver with cash credit card debit card or even your t-money card
so we have more than a little bit of experience with this particular vehicle so if this is your
first time watching us i'm josh i'm lisa and we've recently converted this mercedes-benz sprinter van
into our full-time home and now we're traveling around the western united states with our
cat octavius um more than a lifetime worth he won't come out he's in our kitchen drawer kitty
octavius i know you can hear me you see his face right there no it's pretty cute
all i can say is that i hope that we make it two kilometers without breaking down
yeah this is the exact build model dimensions of the
of old clunk clunk on our camper van but it's much fancier wow not leather seats fancy
does this hotel come with massage chairs
i think you're the best
oh man room 11-11 so auspicious the hotel gave us little um kids juice boxes
and two sandwiches that's a pretty great welcome gift as you saw on the
train all we had was cookies for the past forever are you ready for your sandwich yes
oh i'm in last time i used one of these chairs was at the airport oh my god it's
got this remote thing here with like unlimited options oh my face how's it going over there
after having our muscles beaten down by a robot chair it was time to get out and find some food
i've been calling this the biff but now i know why it stands for busan international film festival so
we decided to stay in the nampodong area which is where we are right now this area seems very alive
lots of street food lots of night markets lots of crazy flashing lights this looks awesome
we were looking for a bit of a change of pace from the skyscrapers and crowds of soul
and busan ended up being the perfect spot for that first impressions busan is really
cool there's way more going on it's way more dense than i thought it would be i mean like
lights and street food and cool new things and these ladies in the carts selling drinks
that we don't understand what's going on it's just it's just really interesting really cool
so far busan feels like a more laid back kind of like where a lot of people actually live
feels like there's a lot more real life here there also appears to be no shortage
of restaurants or food here we're definitely not going to starve it feels like busan is a
very local relaxed feeling like it's not trying to stay too modern or follow the latest trends
just the smell of the food everywhere being cooked people drinking soju right out in front
of wherever they're going to go eat motorbikes going back and forth and the lights just starting
to turn on it feels like such a like a special place like like the place we've been waiting for
we've stepped out maybe only five ten minutes from our hotel and we've already walked through
like five or six markets there's so many cool looking restaurants here i honestly
don't know how we're gonna choose there's too many options and everything looks and smells so good
i don't know i saw everybody over here getting this thing it looks like it's a pancake thing and
they put some sunflower seeds and some pumpkin seeds inside of it and some sort of sauce on it
sweet savory savory and a little sweet
okay it's like a fried pita bread almost but a different kind of bread it's way like softer
than a pita bread would be way more fried filled with nuts in it some sort of like nut butter
it's not peanut butter but it's something else you want bite it's good you'd like it
still we knew we had to try one super important thing the original kfc korean fried chicken
heard it was absolutely mind-blowing and that it was totally different than the stuff we had at
home okay so we ended up with this great blue hut right on the street uh busted out the translator
app figured out roughly what we're ordering i think we got half of a soy sauce chicken half of
a hot chicken do we order fries we should probably order fries and two beers and then what else are
we gonna get there are no fries and some shrimp i think generally the rule that the smaller the
plastic chair at the restaurant the more delicious the food is going to be and these plastic chairs
are downright tiny they honestly feel like they're going to fall apart at any moment which means
the food's going to be amazing which means we ate too much in these last few months definitely true
i don't know what's happening here so we just got two hot plates of fried chicken
and side dishes of radish and onions of course and everything's really delicious we walked in
and within three minutes we got all this food the chicken here is lighter and crispier with a thin
paper-like skin that really soaks up the sauce that comes with it
super crunchy not that heavily battered type that we usually see the breading is light and crisp
and it's really savory this one's a soy sauce chicken and whatever this is it's really good
it's just it's so crunchy
it's a totally different thing from the fried chicken back at home and we fell
in love with it after the first bite yes a small plastic chair theory undefeated
somehow i think after this meal the plastic chairs are gonna get a little smaller
okay so crucial to this experience is the salt that they bring in the little dish here
so they bring in a little dish here i don't know what it is it might it
might just be straight up msg oh yeah that's the stuff for me kfc will always mean korean
oh that was so good how you feeling cool yeah full tired yeah delicious yeah the perfect chicken meal
so we're definitely in the right place for really good food parents just got a waffle
which looks amazing and they're filming a full-on tv food production just right behind us over here
busan is just alive and friendly and fun and wonderful it's just it's the place to be
now we're just trying to walk off that monstrous chicken dinner that we just had and by walk it off
i mean just keep getting more food everywhere that we go there's so much good street food
everywhere here and of course there are selfie studios photo booths everywhere
you know how sometimes people think of neon lights as kitschy and kind of tacky
not here the neon lights here are awesome there's something so cool and hip and and shiny and
new i i love it here i don't know after the south korea trip i think i'm ready to bring
back neon lights everywhere coming to busan a city that we had never
even heard of but are now fully enamored with had shown us just how little we knew
and we can't wait to see more so far really really loving busan and it's just night one
come on all right next to our hotel what an incredible day taking a bullet train making
it to busan having just an awesome night there's a lot more to explore here we'll see you tomorrow
so on this trip so far we've take oh and wow is there junk on mine
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anyway it's apple juice the little lighthouse guy was making a heart with his hands so cute hi kitty
what do you got to tell us so many things to say