Something Korean

Open 24 hrs a day across from Tteokhyanggi, this likeable automatic cafe boasts four tables with dizzy lists of beverages such as coffee, tea and juices. Served by able machines and a public bus stop.   The owner was not available for interview but it appears that she regularly looks after the condition of the space, in much the hands-on way.

I had a rollicking good read in the travel book Lonely Planet Seoul: its balanced and enjoyable content was very familiar as i have lived in or near Seoul for almost all of my life.In the performing section, the authors were kind to point out the English subtitles for each performance - happening oftener than expected for certain- including Nanta, a lplay of Cooking where wordless kitchen tools ..

Known as “the Front Garden(Ap-ddeul)”, This is a singular place where you have to climb up the road, then to take your shoes off at the doorway and walk onto the warmed floor to taste the refreshment. There are two pavilions up on the other little mound right beside the cafe building: having filled up our mouths and stomachs here, we visited them and busily gathered pine cones for Christmas deco..

This corner flower stall is one of the gentlest, most welcoming feature in the whole of busy subway Gangnam station.Officially a "Blessed Flower Market", the underground corner flower stall is one of the gentlest, most welcoming feature in the whole of the hectic subway Gangnam station. Translucent wrapping paper goes with all sorts of affordable pretty little flowers at the second flower stall ..

This gym, named Curves Sanghyeon Club, is on the fifth floor of Wonhee Castle Plaza Building B in Sujigu, Yong-in. By nature it’s a sunny place, incorporating the LED-lit circuit far from windows on the far side of the door. At the entrance you encounter the small, open office with a tiny desktop computer for employees, console and an additional monitor to gauge the day’s entrance. You go straig..

On a nice day this week my Mum and I made a visit to Yangpyeong Art Museum. Towering over us was a rather large mass of dark red and grey. When we were inside, there were 4 exhibitions going on at once, two solo on the ground floor and two group. Going up the stairs we directly faced the whitewashed rooms of scattered artworks authored by women artists and likewise, based in Yangpyeong, mostly s..

In June 2022, we visited the Choonwondang Museum on the way from Jongno-3 Ga subway station. Opposite the Choonwondang clinic was its museum where upstairs the biggest medicine heaters was encased. As a young woman gave us explanations and permissions (she was very kind and gave out details about the many medicine sacks set on the shelves beyond the transparent partitions) we got to the conclusi..

This great-value guesthouse is 200m from the crossroad and 1km from Sanghyeon Subway Station. It is surrounded by a buzzing village life. Various attractions like Everland, the Folk Village, Gwanggyo Lake Park, and Suwon Hwaseong temporary palace are all fairly close by. There is no active security force roaming the streets, however, crime prevention CCTV watches over the area to ensure maximum ..