All you wanted to know but didn’t dare ask, about plastic surgery. Orchid visited a plastic surgery clinic in Seoul. Take a sneak peak of what’s it like inside.
Beautiful Autumn Sights in Seoul
Due to popular demand, i am reposting this entry which got lost. Originally posted in November 2008.
KBS Super Junior's Kiss the Radio Live Recording
Thanks to Carolyn, a fellow blogger from Singapore, I caught a KBS Super Junior’s Kiss the Radio (or fondly known as SUKIRA) show live recording!
KBS Super Junior’s Kiss the Radio Live Recording
Thanks to Carolyn, a fellow blogger from Singapore, I caught a KBS Super Junior’s Kiss the Radio (or fondly known as SUKIRA) show live recording!
Travel in Seoul FAQ
The K-popped! Trio visited Seoul in November 2008. Since then we’ve been getting many e-mails and queries about planning a holiday in Seoul. Where we’d love to answer each and every e-mail, we’ve compiled a list of posts about our Seoul Holiday for your convenience. WHAT TO DO • Our visit to 63 Building • Lotte World • Sunday Service at Yoido Full Gospel Church • The Trio treks (sorta) to N Seoul Tower on Namsan • One night in Samcheon-dong • Locks of Love at N Seoul Tower • Noryangjin Fish Market • Having a cuppa at the Coffee Prince Café • Watching a movie in Seoul • Nanta cooks up a storm for the K-popped! Trio • Beautiful Autumn Sights in Seoul FOOD • Where to eat Jjajangmyeon in Seoul • Tosokchon and their famous Samgyetang • K-popped! Trio tries Korean street food * Halal Dining: Itaewon is where the international community is in Seoul. You can find halal restaurants (mostly Pakistani and Middle Eastern restaurants) and the mosque here. Insadong, a more bohemian district, has many vegetarian restaurants. SHOPPING • Shopping for Korean Celebrity Merchandise • Dongdaemun Market • Buying CDs in Seoul TRANSPORTATION Getting around Seoul
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Our visit to 63 Building
If you are a tourist, like us, be sure to grab one of those guide maps to help you navigate around the building All of a sudden I have the urge to blog about our travels. So here’s an entry on 63 Building in Yeouido Island, Seoul. We visited Yeouido on a cloudy Sunday morning last autumn. K-popped! Trio took the subway from the heart of Seoul (Jongno-3-ga stop) to Yeouido. First we attended service at the biggest church in the world, Yeouido Full Gospel Church. Here in Yeuido is where most of the broadcasting stations are located. The MBC, SBS and KBS buildings are all in this area. After church, we walked along the tree-lined sidewalk taking in the beautiful autumn scenery and visited Noryangjin Fish Market and 63 Building (63 빌딩). We opted to take a cab for the short journey to 63 Building because it started to drizzle. Cabs in Korea all have very sophisticated gadgets, like what you see in this one…equipped with GPRS & Tmoney payment sytem. Daehan Life Insurance 63 Building is more well known as just 63 Building. The skyscraper which stands 249 meters (817 feet) high is the 3rd tallest building in
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Where to eat Jajangmyeon in Seoul?
Where do you find a decent bowl of Jajangmyeon in Seoul? When we went to Seoul, we really wanted to taste Jajangmyeon. Jajangmyeon or Jjajangmyeon (짜장면) is a dish made up of noodles cooked in black bean paste. It’s unique to Korea and no other “black noodles” can substitute it. Although we do have noodles cooked in dark soya sauce here in Malaysia called “Hokkien mee” and you also have “konloh mee”, it is simply not the same! Jajangmyeon is a popular dish and isoften featured in Korean dramas. In Coffee Prince, Yoon Eun-hye and the late Lee Eonhad a Jajangmyeon eating competition in the first episode. However, Jajangmyeon is not served at Korean restaurants (it is also difficult to find it on the menu at Korean restaurants here). We remember our Korean language teacher telling us that Jajangmyeon is a popular dish at Korean – Chinese restaurants! So yeah, go to a Chinese restaurant when in Seoul for a taste of this dish. We found this Chinese restaurant at Co-ex mall and the noodle is actually quite delicious. They provide a pair of scissors so you can cut the long strands for easier consumption. The black bean paste is
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Shopping for Korean Celebrity Merchandise
Fancy drinking from a Rain mug? Check outthe other choices you have in the background…mugs of your favourite Korean star One evening, when we were walking along the streets of Myeongdong in Seoul, we came across a shop selling Korean celebrities’ merchandise. From CDs to calendars to mugs, the store had all sorts of paraphernalia of your favourite stars! I remember seeing lots of Bae Yong-joon, Hyun Bin, Super Junior, Won Bin, DBSK…etc. But be careful, everything in this shop is shockingly overpriced! I can’t believe i walked away with a set of Rain post-it pads for RM20 though! In retrospect, i should have brought a Rain mug back instead. Ah then i could drink from a Bi mug everyday! This is the street in Myeongdong where we found the shop Check out the packaging for this post-it pad set of Korean star Rain (Jung Ji-hoon) The little booklet unfolds to reveal four different types of post-it pads.Each with a Rain stamp at the bottom.It makes a great gift. Lots more to explore in the store… More stories of our trip to Seoul
Dongdaemun Market
SIGHTS OF SEOUL Dongdaemun Gate is also known as the Great Eastern Gate.The historical gate was built in the Joseon Dynasty. We still have so much to share from our trip to Korea. On Pepero Day last year, K-popped! Trio ventured to Dongdaemun in Seoul. Dongdaemun means “Great East Gate” and it was so named because it was a major eastern gate in the wall that surrounded Seoul way back in the Joseon Dynasty. Dongdaemun is a.k.a. Heunginhimun (Gate of Rising Benevolence). We were there at Dongdaemun one sunny autumn morning. Besides being a major landmark in Central Seoul, Dongdaemun Market is also located here. You will find large wholesale market for shoes and textile in this area. The wholesale shoe market is a huge attraction at Dongdaemun Market On one side of Dongdaemun Station is a long row of shoe shops. Shoes ranging from women’s pumps and stilettos, men’s leather shoes, sport shoes to bright pink furry boots can be found here. The shoes are mostly made in Korea or China and are not the branded kind you find in high end department stores. Price is reasonable and could be a steal if you have good bargaining skills. We
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Buying CDs in Seoul
Rain’s first album Bad Guy is difficult to find here in Malaysia Being a Rain enthusiast, i wanted to own every single album he released (okay, the major ones). So prior to my trip to Seoul last November, i purposed in my heart to look for Rain’s first album Bad Guy. It is possible to buy one of his more recent albums from the music stores here in Malaysia. But i could not find the very first album anywhere! Here’s a look at our (Liz and Orchid’s) Rain CDs. Yes! We made our collection complete by buying Rainism (5th album) and Bad Guy (1st album) in Seoul. Our Rain Albums – clockwise from bottom left:It’s Raining, Bad Guy, Rainism, Running Away From the Sun,Rain’s World Special Edition, Rain’s World We bought Rainism at one of Seoul’s largest and most popular bookstore. It is called Kyobo Book Center or Kyobo Moongo (Korean; 교보문고) and it is located in Kyobo Building at No. 1, Jong-ro 1 Street, Seoul. You can find most of the latest releases in this store and also a wide range of Korean music. We were so excited to see such a wide selection of Korean music at the
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