Check out day 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8 of my trip with my parents!

My parents came over to Korea for about 8 days so I decided to show them around Seoul and various spots around the country. I started off picking them up from the airport and getting them a rented phone (3,000 a day + 100 per 10 seconds) in case we got separated (which happened once). A nice student from SNU randomly met them in the airport and let them use his phone to call me from the luggage pick-up area so I knew they were inside. After exchanging some US cash we left for downtown Seoul where we would be staying in a up-scale love motel for four days right smack dab in the middle of Seoul near Jongno 3 station on line 5. After settling in we went out for some dinner where we had 삼겹살, 닭갈비, and 해물파전. After returning to the apartment I turned on the TV to show my parents some Korean programming and we found Roller Coaster which turned out extremely funny to me and my parents even though they couldn’t speak Korean. Watching the manikins in situations like humans with real people talking to them and what not turned out more funny than I thought.

Stay tuned for a post on every day of my trip with details on where we went and what we did. Destinations include Gyeongbok Palace, the DMZ (JSA), ancient Shilla relics in beautiful Gyeongju, herbal medicine market in Daegu, a martial arts templestay for a day and night at Golgulsa, and the Korea Folk Village.

About a week ago I went with some friends from the North South Education program to Wolmido Island and Imjingak. As you can see from the last pic, we were pretty tired by the end of it all. Here’s some pics:

I went to the infamous cat cafe over in Hongdae.  It’s definitely worth hitting up once with a friend if you like cats.

As a part of the SISF program, we take a few trips during the summer.  This past week we visited Digital Media City and Sky Park.