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Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Spring in Korea, A memorable 2D1N


I am always in love with Korea. The people, the beautiful flowers when in bloom during spring season. I imagined myself walking down the streets filled with cherry blossoms, with my love one and talking about the future.  Every year, it will be crowded with so many people, and imagine wearing a hambok I am pretty sure that everyone will gazed at how pretty you are. Let me tell you the reasons why you should #visitKorea and make it your bucket list this year!
1. Wearing Hambok and visit cherry blossom places in Korea
photo credits: google image (Jinhae Gunhangie Festival Korea) 
In spring, there are so many places to view the sightings of cherry blossom! No matter where you are, where you stand, you are able to see it. In Japan, we called it sakura, but in Korea do you know we call it? we call it beot-kkot (벗꽃). Cherry blossom also have a very lovely scent which many perfume is trying to replicate the spray or lotion. Enjoy a tasty snack as you walk there! If you want to avoid busiest period of watching the cherry blossom, you could travel to Seoul forest, and prepare a romantic picnic for two!
photo credits: living+ nomad
Going on a crazy palace tour with the cherry blossom as your backdrop! You can easily rent a hambok for fee of 22,000 won for premium ones and cheaper ones at the fee of 12,000 won. Personally i think going with pink hambok will suit the spring season very well. You can even request for hairdo and makeup for a small fee of 5,000 won and handbag. It goes very well I assure you. A great trick: If you rent a hanbok, you can enter Gyeongbokgung for free. Now you will thank me for saving admission ticket to visit the places.
2. Purchase those limited edition starbucks tumblr only from Korea!
Fancy jealous of your friends who managed to get limited edition cherry blossom themed tumblrs and mugs? You can do it too! Most of the tumblr are in pastel tone of soft colours that captures the fresh spring feeling. You can get it at any of the Starbucks coffee outlet, across the streets of Myeongdong, Gangnam station. Get it fast before it runs out! They are literally a big hit among the koreans.
3. Learning about their KPOP pop culture, their food and immerse in beautiful mural villages
Took this when I am at the Ihwa mural village! This little village have many installation of more than 70 kind of different arts and I love this spread wing angel concept. While we are there, we came across many cafes, cute fat cats lying around. Do you know there is a park where you can see the entire Seoul city skyscrapper? You get to enjoy the breeze and take lots of pretty pictures.
Photo credits: have halal, will halal
Address: 6-18 Ihwa-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, South Korea
photo credits: kidfuninSeoul
Naksan Park gets its name from its camel hump-like appearance. In Korean 'nakta' means camel and 'san' means mountain. So people refer to the park as Nakta Park or Naksan Park. The mountain is a solid granite bedrock. The Joseon royal family enjoyed the natural beauty of the granite mountain.
Kimchi musuem and making class!
Right there, we managed to wore hambok for free! We went to Musuem Kimchikan and have a try on mixing kimchi and also trying different taste of kimchi. Some places kimchi are more sourish, and some place's kimchi are more sweet! Personally I love sweet kimchi, of the raw cabbage.  Exhibit focus on food history, its many historical and regional varieties and it's importance to Korea's culture and cusine.
photocredits: timeout Address: 35-4 Insadong-gil, Gwanhun-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, South Korea
3. Travelling around is convenient!
The transportation around Seoul is fairy easy to understand there are mobile apps on itune/android around to help you! I love crossing the Han River when I am in Seoul and be sure to look out of the window when passing. Most of the subways are connected underground and some even lead to each subway line. This make it extremely easy to spot a subway station and back to where you come from.
Just purchase your T-money card and you can use it anywhere, be it in Seoul or even Busan. Topping up the T-money is easy, as they are so many machines around! Not to mention to grab your cute line T-card for the same amount you'll pay for a normal card! I'll totally purchase a lot of them next time when I am at Incheon Airport!
4. Food and more sides in Korea!!!
I can't emphasize how much I love korea food! From the sides, to the main dishes. I can have at least 10 sides all to myself?! Extremely in love with Kimchi, the fishcake in slices and corn salad side.
The udon noodles with large portion of meat and flavourful soup!! 
Photo credits: Korea bapseng
Samyetang - Chicken Gingseng Soup.
photo credits: buzzfeed
photo credits: hungrygowhere
Just by seeing the food photos, I feel like flying to Korea again. Nothing beats a good Korea cusine!
So many dishes to choose from! I wouldn't have choose anywhere besides Korea :)
Here are some links to help you get started if you are travelling this spring!
Seoul
My itinerary for 2D1N - Airport > Gyeongbukgong palace > Seoul Tower > Dragon Hill Spa (overnight retreat) > Shopping at Myeongdong > Airport

Thanks for reading!
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