One Month in Korea - Part 7

This is the airbnb we stayed in for 10 days in Itaewon.  A small studio for $50 a night.  Not really nice but it did the job, heated floors in Korea are awesome.  We usually worked until lunchtime and then went out to explore.  For coffee we had to make instant coffee at home because Korean cafes don't open til 11am or after.  10:30 is the earliest i've seen.  They stay open super late and you see people drinking coffee at like 11pm at night.  I'm gonna guess they are a big date spot also.  Also you can't get breakfast anywhere, even McDonalds, there is no breakfast in Korea at McDonalds (edit:  I've heard reports this is not true).  There aren't breakfast foods in the Korean food canon even, so there is nowhere open to eat until 11am at least.  So we always had egg, toast, cheese, and SPAM at home.  I was saying these mornings where we're working side by side in this warm small studio in the alleyways of Itaewon will be ones we will remember.  That one winter in Seoul.

boribap soojaebi a few minutes up the hill opens at 11am I think so we ran up there one day cuz I love soojaebi (hand ripped noodles).

less than $6 for soojaebi soup and less than $7 for the bori bap barley rice bowl thing.  This place is decent and fine as a neighborhood spot. 

one Korean style i'm down with that I saw a lot from more fashion forward girls.  I like the silhouette this makes.

We met Hyun Jeoung, who interned for Yoon when he worked in Seoul and then she was going to school in Paris when I was there also.  Now she's working for a hip hop music label.  We went to a ddukbbokgi place that does serve alcohol.

Chi Chi in Hongdae, an izakaya.  Izakaya is a Japanese word and there are Japanese style izakayas but they also kind of use the word to mean drinking place that might not be completely filled with Japanese food or Japanese themed.

so much escalator and stair action in Seoul life.

Itaewon back alleys

we popped in somewhere, had to order food of course.  I took a photo of this stylish guy when he left.

some meal we ate one night.

more commercially available craft beer bought at a CU2 convenience store.