One Month in Korea - Part 6

The Yoo fam all went to the airport and Jen's parents dropped us off in Itaewon at our Airbnb.  We now had 3 weeks to live the Seoul life.

some hill down into the Haebangchon neighborhood

at The Booth Brewing pub.  Expensive!(but good).  After that we went to nearby Magpie Brewery and it was the cheapest craft beer we had in Korea.  I guess they are the first craft brewery in Korea so they've been at it the longest.

walked from Itaewon over to the Hannamdong neighborhood.

the much instagrammed cafe, On Ne Sait Jamais.  Having your friend take photos of you looking cute and having a great time in cafes and instagramming it looks like its a hobby here.  There will be pairs of girls spending literally 20 minutes doing this

Itaewon has been the foreigners neighborhood because its so close to the base, and with that comes other non Korean things like multiple transgender bars.

went exploring Itaewon out of the main area, got lost, its was great.

If you kept going up the hill there was a mosque at the top.  This was a grimy part of town and super hilly which to me is the coolest looking part of Seoul.  When you drive over that bridge and see the hill looking like a Rio favela you just want to jump out and start exploring.

We met Korean illustrator Jungyeon Roh and went to Seon In Jae

oyster rice

At the MMCA (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art)

dystopian music, and then every so often the guns hooked up to motors would whip around a random number of times scaring everyone.  You'd see and hear this happening to someone else before you got there and then would be sweating anticipating when it would happen to you.  The feeling of living in a police state never knowing when you're gonna get it?

This is at the leeum museum samsung collection, artist: olafur eliasson

   I think this was supposed to be the solar system.  The hoops are all half hoops reflected in mirrors to make circles.

Alchemy, artwork of Choi Jeong-Hwa

We went to the nearby famous mirror cafe where there were girls doing the 20 min long instagram sesh's.  then we went to the Kiwa taproom, another craft beer bar which was cool looking but we were feeling lame about it.  We were trying to avoid drinking craft beer in korea even though we love it because it's so expensive and we should be doing more "Korean stuff".  But what are you to do when in Korea you always have to buy food with your drink.  There is no popping into some place for 1 pre dinner drink or one post dinner drink.  You're full of food from dinner (cuz the portions are big in Korea) and its only 8pm and you want to go for another drink but don't want to have to order food, what do you do?  This is where the growing number of craft beer bars came in for us.  Also this ddukbokkgi place near Kiwa taproom did not serve alcohol.  We couldn't believe it, we at ddukbokkgi without beer or soju which seemed just wrong.

Insadong