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Thursday, February 13, 2020

My Seoul Part 2

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DAY 4 (30.8.2019)

Finally!! The highlight of the trip, wearing Hanbok at Gyeongbokgung Palace (경복궁)! II was sooo excited that morning, I woke up with vigor! So me and sis, like usual, using our beloved korean public transotation to the designated Gyeongbokgung Palace station (Line 3 Exit 2). 
But first! We had to stop by the Hanbok Rental Place (already made a reservation from KLOOK) named Hanbok That Day 

To our dismay, it was faaaaaarrrrrrr awayyy ㅠㅠ 😭from the station. We even got lost. Luckily there was an information booth nearby so we stopped there to ask. It was deeep inside the alley. Truly, the hanbok there were MESMERZING. Each and every piece was undoubtedly beautiful. My korean friend even praised me for choosing a very beautiful traditional dress; and remarked that a lot of tourists nowadays wear very modern ones with western designs (for example, full of glitters and too much added material)

Here are me and my sister just enjoying our day in hanbok, kind of daydreaming of becoming a korean princess (truthfully this is just a commoner's hanbok, not the royal's😆) and please excuse my face, thanks. 





















(Just a commoner using the bus XD)
I have to say, I feel comfortable wearing a Hanbok, just like I'm comfortable wearing a Baju Kurung. I'm good with traditional clothing, apparently.

At around 2 o clock, we went to eat. Tired of eating korean food everyday 😂, we ate at Restoran Kampungku. FINALLY! Malaysian food!! Trust me when I say the food here is more delicious than normal restaurants in Malaysia 👍

(random picture of Yohan)
Brace yourselves, this is gonna be a looongg day. After Gyeongbokgung, we went to Hongdae, for ANAOTHER RENTAL AHAHAHHAA. Evening event is wearing a......
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*drum roll*
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Korean School Uniform!!
Nuguna School Website














I truly had fun and it definitely awakened the child koreaboo inside me. Lol, please don't take my words literally 😄.
You think I stopped here, oh no no, the day is still young, baby.
Next stop, a really cute cafe, CafeYam. The drinks and cakes were deeeelicious.
 

Then Line Store in Hongdae:
Okay, lassstttly, at night I found myself too absorbed in the street dances, I forgot it was late ahahah. They were reallyyy good dancers. If people on the streets are THIS good, I wonder what I would feel if BTS is front of me. They were the ones dancing but adrenaline were pumped IN MY BODY AHHAA. I really enjoyed it, but sorry dear dancers, I didn't give you any money, although being there for like an hour 😭. Please forgive my broke ass.
 DAY 5 (31.8.2019) (Finale)

This is me, very sad that at the end of this day, I would aready be in Malaysia 
 (I will miss you Ryan)









Then we ate the infamous 핫도그 Corndog. (Fast forward to the future, in Malaysia I went to a few places that sold corndogs, until now, this one that we ate in Korea was the best)
 Eid Restaurant. I think a lot of people know about this restaurant. In this world, there are only 3 Eid restaurant franchises and I am proud to say I went to all 3 (Itaewon, Bangi and Seremban)! Taste wise, all 3 were about the same level of deliciousness but of course, the one in Korea tastes the best, because of the fact that we are actually in Korea AHHAHA.
The owners were soo so friendly and even volunteered to take a picture of us.
 And if Malaysians go to Korea, it wouldn't be a trip if they didn't visit Itaewon Mosque. Here is the inside picture of the mosque because we stopped to pray and didn't even think of seeing the front of the mosque ahaha. Quite a bummer, actually, why didn't we? Oh,.. yeah.. we were late to meet my korean friend ahah.
 Apparently in Itaewon, my korean friend, Kyeongeun told us that there are a lot of hipster cafes that normally foreigners don't know about and truth be told, I couldn't see any foreigner while we were walking. There are a lot of beautiful shops too. One very aesthetically pleasing shop is this (IDK the shop name) shop that sold old school stuff and old cereals lol.
(I regretted not buying Shin Myohan, I really did)
 This is the last cafe we stopped at before departing to- ah.. one second, let me wipe my tears- it's a sad day. Okay,.. yeah soo.. Kyeongeun and her sister were such good sport they even bought us drinks and cake. 너무 감사합니다. 잊지 않을 추억이였어요.


다음에 또 만나요 안영!!
BYE BYE!

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