Category: Getting Cultured – Busan

It’s a Tuesday.

Left: we had our special lecture again. This time it’s about the history of Korean language and guess what it’s not taught by a Korean lecturer. Impressive!

Right: Then we had the very first presentation. We were required to come out with any topic related to culture for the presentation. We learnt about table manners of different countries and…

Left: Drinking culture of different countries.

Right: In the afternoon, we went for cooking class.

I teamed up with another Korean buddy instead of my original buddy. We switched because we stood at the wrong place and might as well just pair up with whoever opposite us. We cooked scallion, beef and seafood pancake, and rice cake soup. It was delicious but too bad we couldn’t finish them as we ate a lot during lunch, such a waste.

We were also served with dessert after that. I’m not sure what they’re called ;p

Then at night, we had a gathering at a drinking place, it’s set like a jail. I’m not sure the exact name pf the place but we referred it as Jail Bar *LOL*

Left: Seaweed soup.

Right: Huge pitcher of beer! I didn’t drink a single bit, no alcohol for me at all because of my wound that I developed during my stay here -.-” I was told that I must not drink anymore until it heals. Will tell you more about it in coming post.

Soju and beer made a perfect pair (to me it’s just alcphol, no difference). Instead of mixing them the usual way, we tried Jägerbomb. We suceed!

Eating and drinking, this is what Koreans normally do.

Before we ended the night, we had this thing going on. Basically, it will start at one end of the room to the other end of the room whereby each person will drink in one go, one after another. Since I didn’t drink alcohol, I drank my water when it’s my turn ;p

After that, we headed to karaoke and that’s when more drinking happened for some people and got kind of out of control. Oh well… That’s the problem when you are drunk.

On Sunday, most of our Korean buddies are busy with their own things, so we went out again on our own, this time to Seomyeon for shopping. It’s in the subway station, things are selling rather cheap there.

When we’re there, we couldn’t find the place we’ve been to previously instead ended up in this new place. Things were more expensive here.

It took us quite a long time to finally found the place we’re supposed to go. No photos of the place hehehe…

I bought a winter jacket for KRW79000, gosh… It’s expensive but what to do? Didn’t know Korean, hard to bargain. At least I managed to get it down from KRW85000 to KRW79000. It was hard to decide whether to buy or not. I didn’t even look at the jacket, it was hanging there with all the other jackets, I just simply took it out of the hanger and it looked good on me! Not many times in my life could find something that fit me just right. At the end, I committed to buy it. Oh well… At least one of thing in my shopping list was settled. This is my most expensive purchase in Korea.

After that, we decided to head back. Was starving. So we went to Popeyes which is located at the entrance of the uni.

I ordered a lunch set which cost me KRW5500. Don’t quite remember the exact burger I ordered, I think it was Lady Sandwich Set.

Then, for dinner, we went to a place near the uni. Some came back from there and told us it was good, so we went there.

No idea what’s this place is called ;p

Sorry to say that… It’s just not my type. It’s rather expensive too.

Wasn’t a very satisfied dinner but as long that can fill the stomach it’s good enough.

That’s the end of day 7 in Busan. Won’t have day 8 for update but will go straight to day 9 because I have no idea why I didn’t take any photo on that day. I guess nothing interesting happened *LOL*

The last part for this day. We went to Hae Dong Yong Gung Temple.

Had to walk up the hill but the hard work was worth it. We were greeted by amazing view!

Left: People threw coins to wish for good blessings.
Right: The temple building.

Breathtaking views!

Left: Must take photo of me with the view ;p
Right: They have many miniatures there. Very cute.

Left: You can bath the statue. I used to do this when I was young when I went to the temple with my grandmother.
Right: The prettiest girl in the program and I ;p

After the temple trip and waited for the bus for almost an hour, finally we’re back to the dormitory. We later joined the rest for dinner. Again, without our Korean buddies, simple went to a place around the uni for dinner.

Didn’t know what to order, we just asked the boss to recommend *LOL* The dish was quite sweet. There’s potato, carrot, chicken, and glass noodle. No idea what’s the actual name of the dish, most importantly it’s not bad ;p

Anyway, end of day 6.

We went around to look for a proper place for lunch.

We splited into two groups, one went for Irish cuisine, another went to the market to hunt for some Korean food. We ventured through the fish market and finally we found a place.

We just decided that we would go into the next eatery we found because we couldn’t decide which to go. We ended up in this small cosy shop selling fried chicken. Since the menu didn’t have any English words, one of us tried to speak “koglish” (mixture of Korean and English) to communicate with the shop owner, a very friendly lady.

We ordered chicken feet and two types of fried chicken. In our group, there’s 2 Malaysians, an Australian, and a Spaniard. 1 Malaysian doesn’t like chicken feet (obviously not me ;p), the other two never had chicken feet before. It was one experience for them. The chicken feet were spicy, very spicy but tasted great, even Malaysians are saying it’s spicy, the other two sure felt worst hehehe… However, we did enjoy it. Meanwhile, the fried chicken was awesome! Yummy! One is normal fried chicken, another one with sauce.

Eeels could be found all over the market and they’re HUGE and LONG!

After lunch, we went to the bus stop to take the bus to the temple.

Sneak peek of the temple… More to come…