Category: Getting Cultured – Busan

All right! I seriously can’t remember what we did on the 16/1/2012, no photos taken also LOL… I guess it was pretty boring, attending classes I think…

Today, it’s all presentations. We called it PPT day. The last 4 groups doing their presentation.

Left: Presentation by other group, about wedding of different countries.

Right: Can you spot me? Our group was talking about folktales. I was sharing with them about how Mount. Kinabalu got its name. We covered folktales from 4 countries namely Australia, Korea, Norway, and Malaysia because our group made up of people from these 4 countries.

At night, nothing much to do. Some said they’re going out drinking so I tagged along thought they were going to some place where they not only drink but also had food at the same time but they didn’t. We ended up at Monkey Bar, near the uni. That night it was my very first time dealing with drunk people -.-” oh dear… What an experience.

They said that if you didn’t get drunk here, your stay will not be a complete one. Oh well… How time flies? It’s almost the end of the program. It’s our final week before bidding goodbye to everyone.

After we got back from our homestay, we went to play Wii.

This is one amazing place! TGE Space, near our uni. Not only you can play Wii here but also sing karaoke. We didn’t sing, instead we played Wii. My first time playing it, not bad, beginner’s luck 😉 They provide free flow snacks too! After that, we were all so tired and decided to just go back to the hostel to rest.

Nothing much to do so I took all my purchases out to take photos ;p I bought these over the weeks. These are just some, I still have more. The masks are all mine. Then the other products, 5 are mine, the other 5, I helped my friends to buy. It’s so cheap! Way cheaper than buying in Malaysia or Australia but these brands can’t be found in Australia.

That’s all for the day. I don’t remember where we went for dinner LOL and what we did that night, no photos taken that’s why.

After our lunch, we went for a drive around the coastal area.

See the red arrow? These are the well-knwon Korean diving women (Hae-nyao). Finally got to see them in action with my own eyes instead of from the TV.

After that, we went to Lotte Aqua Mall.

This is the world tallest indoor musical fountain found in Aqua Mall. It was amazing!

Then we went to the street at Nampo-dong to do some shopping, skincare products! Lots of them, helping friends to buy and buy some for myself.

Left: A group of Korean teens took part in free hugs campaign.
Right: Then we went for afternoon tea at PM2:45 Coffee.

Very cosy cafe. There’s so many unique cafes around throughout the city, very competitive.

Don’t quite remember what we ordered, I think it was cafe latte, chocolate latte, blueberry late, and chocolate chip cookie.

My host and my homestay partner from US.

Then, we walked to the nearby market.

Old fashion street with many small business seller clothes, hardware, food, and more. This is also where you can find many street food and eating by sitting down at the stall.

Left: Another section of the market. We headed back to the city centre for karaoke. The last destination of the day was my host’s home. We were surprised to found that the subway was actually 9 floors underground! Or rather 9 levels inside the mountain. We had to take a lift up instead of using the staircase *LOL*

Right: Our very first home-cook Korean dinner by my host’s mum 😉

We stayed a night there, was so hot in the room! Sweat bucket! This is because the sheet was heated and on high setting! I woke up in the morning with very nice skin though. WIth this, I scrapped my plan to go to the jimjibang *LOL*

Homestay Day was on the Saturday of the second week of the programme. At 10am, we met our host. I’m so glad I had a partner going with me, else it would be really awkward ;p

Our host’s dad came to pick us up. The view from the bridge.

Awesome!

Usually we’re just looking at the bridge, now we’re on it.

We headed to the temple that I went previously, Hae Dong Yong Gung Temple. These are some of the properties near the temple.

Even though I had been there before, it’s great to be able to go again. Managed to venture to the area which I missed out when I was there.

We had quite an early lunch at the restaurant just before the entrance of the temple.

Dumpling and Jajangmyeon (alternately spelled jjajangmyeon; 자장면; 짜장면).

If not mistaken this is a type of seafood noodle dish called jjambbong (짬뽕). This is spicy but still not that bad and it was great especially during winter. All the food was great!

After that we drove around the coastal area, to be continued…

After a long day trip, we had our dinner in the uni, too tired to go out for dinner but at the end still went out for drinking. I didn’t drink though. I just went there to join my friends.

So much food to go with the beer and soju.

If I’m not mistaken, unlimited refill!

Beer with dry ice, steamboat, and more snacks.

After that, we thought of going to karaoke but most didn’t want to, they wanted to go to another place to drink, so I left with those who wanted sing karaoke but decided to go back to uni. Who knows when on the way back, saw the other group, we ended up in a karaoke opposite the uni.

Only KRW1000 per person but the place was not a good one.

Anyway, got back at almost 1am, sang till forgot time ;p That’s the end of day 13th.