Friendly people and open minded children
by MEdelmann
The people!! They are so friendly and helpful. In most cases I didn´t have to ask. Also when I was standing in front of the subway plan always friendly koreans came and ask me if they can help me.
Children will always watching you, like this group did ... I was standing in front of a building and built my camera on a tripod to make photographs of the buildings and me in front of the buildings. Suddenly a korean teacher came and asked me if he can come with a group of young girls and boys, because he wanted to explain them about the history of the palace ....
Korean Junk Food
by machomikemd
Korean junk food have some similarities with junkfoods with other countries like potato chips, onion rings, cheese curls and differences like having rice crispies, seaweed crackers and rice crackers. Prices are average (from 500-1,500 won).
Hite Beer
by machomikemd
Another Famous South Korean Beer that is brewed by the Hite Brewery. Hite lager is golden in colour and is styled upon traditional European and American lagers; it has 4.5% alcohol Hite is a micro filtered lager that has a stronger kick than Cass. a 700 ml bottle is 800 won and is available everywhere.
Ginseng Chicken Soup (Samgyetang!)
by machomikemd
An Aphrodisiac as Koreans would say! It is made from 4 year old ginseng, stuffed into a 4 month old native chicken (the black ones are twice more expensive!) plus glutinous rice and boiled in a broth of Korean ginseng, dried seeded jujube fruits, garlic, and ginger.
a basic meals costs 12,000 won and if you order black chiclen then it balloons to 24,000 won. Available everywhere!
Professional Baseball League
by tyusen
Korea has a professional baseball league which was established in 1982. It consists of 8 teams and two of them are based at Seoul. They share same stadium, Jamsil Stadium, as home field. The system of the pennant race is a little complicated. The pennant race consists of 133 games. After the season, 3rd place and 4th place teams hold semi postseason matches. The team which won the first two games out of 3 games can get through to postseason matches. 2nd place team and the winner of semi postseason matches hold postseason matches and the team which won the first three games out of 5 games advance to the Korean series. 1st place team and the winner of postseason matches hold Korean series and the team which won the first four games out of 7 games becomes the champion of Korean league.
By the way, I heard an interesting episode about the birth of the baseball league. When Korean baseball league started, Chun Doo Hwan had been in a power as the president of South Korea. His regime was called a government under a military dictatorship and so many people hold antigovernment demonstrations very often. Chun Doo Hwan tried to establish a professional sport to resist criticism of his regime. That was the reason why Korean professional baseball was established. Of course I’m not sure if this story is true or not, but many Koreans believe it. Opera glasses are very useful to watch baseball games because baseball fields are very big. If you want to try to get a ball, you should prepare for a glove to catch it. Do you have favorite players? You should have a magic maker. With luck, you will be able to get autographs from them.
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Namsan (South Mountain) and Seoul Tower
Namsan Tower, Seoul
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