Day 2
I missed my 8 – 8.30 am guesthouse breakfast so I had my first Korean breakfast in a coffee place. I got a buzzer
that vibrated when my sandwich was ready.
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| Although my guesthouse is good I think the sandwich I ate here tasted better |
Walking around I came across a huge
N shaped structure at the end of a beautiful street that was going up. It was
the entrance to Hongik University. I walked under the structure to go to the
campus.
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| Entrance to Hongik University. It specializes in art and I've been to the museum. |
On my way back I met 3 Korean ppl, 2 guys and 1 girl. We started
talking about some statue there and later about Korea, Korean, Amsterdam, music.
The girl was friends with Korean singer K Will and her friends didn’t know
this. Funny how I always make ppl realize things about others that they didn’t
know yet.
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| The statue |
After this it was time to visit the
thing that had drawn my attention on the map since I first saw it: the B boy
theater. Like many places, the theater was in the basement so I initially
couldn’t find it. I asked some girl passing me where it was and she didn’t
know. She checked my map, she checked her phone and she asked someone else for
me. Then she thought she knew and she told me to follow her. Holding my map in
her hand, we walked to the B boy theater.
The B boy theater is in a building
shared by a few companies. The doorman (sitting at a desk) got up and showed me
to the elevator. I said bye to the girl and I went to the basement. Downstairs
was a wall with accomplishments of the dance crew and I could hear music coming
from the next room. There was nobody where I was so I went to the music. It was
the theater. I bowed to greet some ppl who noticed I entered. I asked if it was
OK to watch and it was :)
I watched them practice for over 2
hours. They were doing all kind of break dance moves, later a girl came and she
started practicing hip hop dance moves. More and more people came, there were
almost 25 of them. Upstairs on top of the seats was a controller for the music,
they kept running up the stairs to change the music and practice. It was at a
really pleasant volume, I think it helped their concentration. Later I noticed
that there were smaller groups within the group practicing together.
One guy tried to do some spinning
move but he couldn’t prolong it. The 2 guys he was practicing with were a little better at it but
they couldn’t do it that long either. A girl stood in front of the first girl
and showed her how to do the dance move she was practicing. It’s funny how much
I could tell about their communication without hearing them talk and just
seeing them move.
When I left I thanked someone there
(then I didn’t know he was the leader of the group) but he couldn’t speak
English so well. So he got his friend Moon to talk to me and we talked about his
dancing. Really friendly people for letting me watch their practice :)
At night I walked around randomly.
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| Hongdae (or very maybe Sincheon) |
I went to a street in Hongdae.
There were so many people in every street! In this one section of a street
people perform outside. 2 groups were making music, separated by a wall so
their sounds wouldn't get too mixed up. The singer was confident and made some
girls laugh. They had a bigger audience then when I saw them the day before. One
group had mainly girls in the audience but not such a big audience. The other
group also didn’t have such a big audience, maybe 5 ppl.
Further on, there are many stores.
Many of these play music to attract customers and cosmetic stores also have a
woman standing outside with a microphone to get people to enter the store. They
give you a shopping basket with something in it, I think you get that for free
when you buy something else in the store.
There is so much to see and so much
to do here! I wonder what else I’ll discover :)
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