Some of you may remember my misadventures at Lotte World. It was hot, crowded, I got sunburned, went on only two rides, ect. Well not this time! For Chuseok (the Korean Thanksgiving which happens on the super moon) I decided I wanted to go to amusement parks. Supposedly over Chuseok, Seoul is suppose to empty [...]
Category: shops
Ppiokko
One of the stations I make all my transfers from when I'm heading to Seoul has this little food station called Ppiokko. Everytime I've gone past it it's been packed with a line going on and on. But recently I arrived too early to meet up with a friend so I decided I'd wait in [...]
Shinsegae: The World’s Largest Department Store 신세계 센텀시티
Saturday our first stop was Shinsegae: The World's Largest Department Store. It's easy to get to from Centrum City Station off of line 2. It has it's own movie theater, amusement park, ice skating rink, golf course, and spa amongst all the shops and restaurants. Nathalie and I first went around the first floor to [...]
Emart
Emarts (and homeplus) are the main grocery store chains in South Korea. I don't have one near me, but while visiting a friend I went in one. My local grocery store is limited in what it sells. The Emart I went to with my friend was more like (for those in the US) a Walmart [...]
O’sulloc Tea cafe
While catching up with a classmate from Prague she introduced me to to O'sulloc. We went to two O'sulloc's that day. The first was a shop in Insadong with about 3 levels, the second level was a sit down cafe that was rather expensive. The first level sold tea, tea bags and leaves as well [...]
Kakao Friends
On our last day of vacation we went to Coex mall to check out the Kakao Friends store. Like Line, Kakao has a range of characters to help users express themselves. A cat and dog couple (Neo and Frodo), A radish/rabbit (Muzi), Con the evil scientist, Apeach (a peach brought to life by Con), Jay-G, [...]
KLive hologram concert (케이라이브)
On the top floor of Lotte Fitin is KLive. KLive is the worlds first K-pop hologram concert. My friend booked our tickets online and we ran up to the top floor of the mall thinking we were late only to find we were an hour early. So we had plenty of time to kill and [...]
Line Friends Cafe and Store
Line Friends are the mascots/stickers for the Line app. An application from Japan for keeping in touch for free around the world, calling or messaging. They also have special features that allow you to add one of their official accounts to your chats that will translate for you and your friends. Super handy. There are two stores in [...]
Times Square
Times Square in South Korea is a mall located in Seoul. It's a huge shopping center with a ton of global brands as well as Korean, restaurants and even a kids amusement park which we walked by and had probably the largest teddy bear I've ever seen inside, covered with kids. I went to several [...]
Daiso 다이소
At the moment Daiso (다이소) is one of my favorite places to buy stuff cheap. I don't know if there are any nearby but if I'm downtown and I need something I usually pop in. Daiso was suggested to me at the teacher's welcome party. It's a Japanese store like a dollar store and can [...]