Happiness is : Travelling! Part 2 - South Korea

Hello again! After a tiring schedule in Japan (we didn't even get to enjoy a proper Japanese traditional  meal other than ramen, takoyaki, yakisoba, that we found on the small street shops), we moved on to Seoul, South Korea.

In Seoul, we only planned to go shopping (for sure!) and meet our Korean friends, and since we had a lot of time, we just want to enjoy Korean food! In Japan, we had to change travel destination everyday and wake up early. Although we enjoyed Japan very much, we thought we would take it easy in Korea..

So our hotel was just the opposite of Myeongdong. So everyday would be : Myeongdong, myeongdong, myeongdong....!!

Myeongdong is like a shopping paradise for us. We basically went there everyday and checked every stores multiple times just to compare the price, think about what we should buy and compare promotion (sometimes the same brand has different promotion at different store).

In front of Lotte duty free entrance.

Lotte duty free opens from 9:30AM to 9:00PM everyday, and inside is always full of tourist, most of them are mainland China's. Oh that's right.. If you can speak Chinese, no need to worry at all because every shopkeepers in Myeongdong and other tourism areas in Korea can speak Chinese. Whether they are Korean that learn Chinese or Chinese students in Korea. So when I was in Korea, I felt like I am in mainland China because everyone tried to speak Chinese with us.

 I always love Asian culinary, Japanese and Korean food are one of my favourites. Korean food is just so suitable for my taste because I love spicy and heavy flavour.

Beautiful view in Gyeongbuk Palace.

To be honest I think Korea still cannot be compared to Japan for their travel destinations and nature's charm. At the beginning, my goal in visiting Korea is for shopping and buying the skincare products. But what made our journey unforgettable is that we are able to meet our Korean friends there. They took us to a lot of interesting places, eat delicious food, and to be just hanging out with them was wonderful.

Thanks a lot to all my friends and hope to meet you again soon!