Day 11 (Saturday) - "SNSD" & Papa Gorilla

For breakfast I had bad tasting traditional Korean porridge. The taste is sort of absent, and inside there is lots of soft beef fat added for some reason.

For dinner I got my first glimpse at SNSD. Many celebrities wrote messages after eating at this place, where you have to BBQ your food yourself. But if you do nothing, they do it for you.

Famous Norae bang / Karaoke place - I want to go there some time

Nice place for drinking

Today I went to a Korean club for the first time, Papa Gorilla in Hongdae - there is also Mama Gorilla and Baby Gorilla. I noticed at night in Hongdae there are many foreigners compared to other places.

The atmosphere was really different from Amsterdam. Everyone was happier, the music was better (pop) and people danced better. There was especially 1 cute girl but it looked like she only wanted to dance.

Day 12 - Sincheon

I booked a new hostel in Sincheon. I think it’s better to stay in each place max 2 weeks because that way I see more of the city.

While walking around I met a weird homeless Korean guy. He stood in front of me and started doing some Indian ritual on me. He was moving his arm around in circles in front of me while saying some kind of “uh, uh, uh” all the time. I don’t know if he couldn’t really speak Korean/Indian or that he was drunk, or he was trying to speak English. I should have taken a picture of this!

The same street turned out to be a wedding street - bigger than the one I had been in before. It was in this street that I discovered that the prettiest girls are in Sincheon. A cute girl coming from the opposite direction looked at me in such a curious/happy way. Then I realized I usually meet the prettier girls in this area ;) I think the girl from the club yesterday must have been from Sincheon too :)

Day 13 – Finding places, cameras & the most beautiful Korean girl

I asked a girl in English where a subway station is. She looked at me almost in a defensive pose with her arms, then I asked the same thing in Korean. She then opened up; she told me how to walk and she looked up what route I should take on her phone. She was a really pleasant and friendly person but if I hadn’t spoken Korean to her I would have felt like she thought I was some homeless person trying to talk to her. Later I asked her why she didn’t speak English. She said she didn’t learn it in school.

Arrived at City Hall subway station I tried to find the Sinsegae mall. For the first time I asked 2 guys for directions. Although I spoke to them in Korean, they mostly spoke to me in English. “Walk, then go right”, the first one said. While he was explaining where I had to go right, his friend said it was left. It was raining so the smoking guy asked me how I wanted to go there. I said I would walk and he said “It’s OK?” in informal language (which he’s not supposed to use). I walked straight where they said I had to go right, but since I didn’t know exactly where to turn, I asked again and some other guy told me to go left (which was the right way).

While walking to the left, I found a street with a lot of camera stores, maybe 20. I had made a list of the top 5 camcorders but no store had those cameras. Many stores didn’t have Sony. In the Panasonic store they didn’t have the Panasonic I wanted but they did have the older model.

At night I went to the Ho bar (I think nr 4 or 6) with 2 Japanese guys and 1 American guy. Later on I think I saw the girl from Papa Gorilla in the Sky Lounge.

In the Sky Lounge - which is only at the 5th floor

But I soon forgot about her: when I left the Sky Lounge, I saw the most beautiful girl Korean girl I had see so far. She looked somewhat like IU but really beautiful, maybe even more than SNSD Taeyeon, Yoona & Jessica. Her face was so pretty and clean. This was level 1O!