1,345 ViewsAlright so today was finally the first day of lessons and my class was korean arts and crafts from 4-6pm. Woke up to have lunch with my friend. The first day was okay because I didn’t really have any expectations of the food. It was only 3,000W for this huge spread.
Seoul
Day 4 [26th June 2011] Orientation + Han River Cycling
1,697 ViewsAlright so we had a formal orientation ceremony where they explained to us everything like the TAs and all that nonsense but I wasn’t really interested in listening. I was more interested in spamming the wifi at the hall. the wifi here is so limited. we have no wifi in dorms which makes whatsapp absolutely useless
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Seoul
Day 3 [25th June 2011] Dorm Check in
1,703 ViewsToday was a pack up day, where we moved from our hostel at hongdae to our sch, SNU. Since it was drizzling and we were really lazy, we decided to take a taxi to our school. Gosh, it was really thankful we took a taxi. halfway through the ride it started pouring like mad.
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Kpop Related
Day 2 [24th June 2011] Maypole + Music Bank
2,294 ViewsNotice: Dear reader, please note that most of the photos in my blog are currently not available. They are currently held hostage by Photobucket (which requires me to pay $399USD/year). I am in the process of re-uploading the images on a different host and this will take some time. If you have any burning
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Seoul
Day 1 out of 48 days [23rd June 2011]
1,802 ViewsDay 1, 23rd June 2011 Reached Incheon airport about 5pm after a 6 to 7 hours ride. It’s kind of funny because I expected some airport ambassadors to greet me in a certain way. Haha, like the one in taiwan, there was feilunhai standee.. But I can’t seem to find any to greet me
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Pre-Planning Korea
Pre-Korea Plan 3: Choosing Accommodation
1,923 ViewsThere are 3 types of accommodation you can choose from in Korea. 1. Hotel (which i will not be talking about since i’m going on budget.) 2. Homestay (i wanted to try this out but decided not to since i’m only going to stay for 2 nights) However, I came across a website which
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Pre-Planning Korea
Pre-Korea Planning 2-1: Incheon Airport – Mobile Phone Services & Transportation
2,332 ViewsMobile Phone Guide http://english.visitkorea.or.kr/enu/RE/RE_EN_1_2_4_1.jsp From what I have researched thus far, the mobile network in Korea seems to be ‘locked’ in a certain way. Such that, you are not able to use a korean sim card in a foreign phone, or a foreign sim card in a korean phone. (You could actually pay to