Korea Bucket List

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  • Wifi in Korea

    Using Olleh

    Rates: $1 a day/ $3 a day

    Three months - roughly $270 all together

    Pro: Accessible anywhere, can just pay for the wifi I use

    Con: having to constantly type down the pin/password, risk of losing it, cannot store it easily as it will probably change every time you buy it

    Using Egg

    Rates: about $80 a month

    Three months - roughly $240

    Pro: Easy access, no need to constantly type the pin/password, can pay in dollars

    Con: May get lost easily, $100 deposit

    Hacking into free Wifi

    Rates: Free!

    Three months - Free!

    Pro: Free!

    Con: not reliable whatsoever, varying amounts of good wifi, may not even work

    • 1 month ago
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  • Bucket List

    1. Use the korean I learn in my classes for my blog posts (at least a sentence or writing words in korean. You can learn some korean too :D)
    2. Go on a tour of the  DeMiliterized Zone
    3. Visit the Seoul Museum of Art
    4. Attend the Boryeong Mud Festival (wait shoot this means I gotta get a swimsuit…)
    5. Try eating Beongdegi (Silkworm larvae…)
    6. Go to a Cat/Dog/Sheep cafe (or all three, yes)
    7. Visit the Cheonggyecheon River
    8. Go to Lotteworld/Seoul Land
    9. Visit the Banpo Bridge Rainbow Fountain
    10. Stay at Bukchon Maru Hanok Guesthouse for a night, maybe
    11. Visit a Han River cafe
    12. Actually, visit the Han River in general
    13. Go to the Yongsan Electronics market and buy some awesome stuff for cheap
    14. Shop at the Gwangjang Traditional Market (I don’t remember if I’ve been here the last time I was in Korea…)
    15. Wear my hanbok for some event (It’s really pretty but I don’t get enough chances to wear it in america…)
    16. Learn to like Kimchi (wish me luck…)
    17. Go to one of these really old restaurants 
    18. Collect and record all of the free samples I get
    19. Visit Tteokokki Town (OMG, I am not pulling your leg, it exists)
    20. ^Also Jokbal, jeon, and twigam street in Gongdeok (I’m really not liking how korean is spelled with english letters :/)
    21. ^Also Soondae Town in Sillim
    22. ^ Also Majang Korean BBQ street
    23. ^ Also Ojang-dong for Naengmyun
    24. Try live octopus…
    25. visit a jjimjiibang (Korean spa. I visited one once when I was a lot longer, but I dont remember much.)
    26. Try Soju (and if I do end up doing this, try hangover soup in the morning because I’ll be regretting it then)
    27. Go to a bar? like Blue Ketchup that’ll let me meet new Korean people. (Although I think it’s more of a dating service or speeddating and we know where that made me end up in the last time I went to one…)
    28. Go to insadong (if it’s been rebuilt by the time I get there…)
    29. Go to the museum under the King Sejong statue (because hidden museums)
    30. Go to Hongdae and watch the street performances
    31. Go shopping at Dongdaemun all night long ~ (get it? cause it’s a night market? hahahaha…guess not. Anyways it opens at 9pm and is open til dawn so yay all nighter. Maybe I should invest in learning how to like coffee so I can last)
    32. Have an all night movie marathon (because I’ll be missing so many movies duuring the summer, if I’m lucky maybe they’ll play Equestrian girls ;u;)
    33. Go find korean friends (THIS IS A BIG ONE!!!!!!!!!)
    34. ^Once get said friends, Go to ALL THE ROOMS (PCbang/internet cale, DVD room, noraebang/karaoke room, gameroom, Playstation room, and/or multiroom)
    35. Get princessed up at the Dress Cafe at Ewha (because preeetttyyyY)
    36. Visit the Gangnam casino (BUT I WONT PLAY…ok maybe one game)
    37. Visit the Charlie brown and Hello Kitty Cafe
    38. Have fishies eat my feet
    39. Go to a KPOP cafe
    40. OMG THERE IS A VICTORIAN ERA CAFE IN HONGDAE I AM THERE
    41. Learn some Korean Dishes so I can eat these when I come home
    42. Visit the indie market at Hongdae
    43. Get one of these tumblers (I don’t drink coffee but maybe for hot chocolate)
    44. Do some bargaining
    45. BUY AS MUCH SOCKS AS POSSIBLE. YOU NEVER HAVE ENOUGH
    46. ^and cute stuff. yeeeeeeesssss
    47. Get a T-money card and see what you can use it on besides subways
    48. Post messages at the back of restaurants (Any ideas for messages?)
    49. Find people trying to use egyo (cause I find it hilarious)
    50. ^Also go to Gangnam and see if I could find people trying to Gangnam style around. Alternative : Dance it myself and embarass myself
    51. Meet/find Kpop stars and brag about it on facebook. Because.
    52. Go to the Asia song festival (in July? at Olympic park)
    53. Shop at Namdaemun
    54. Watch Nanta (Because quality amazingness)
    55. Try on those wierd face masks for your skin
    56. Go randomly exploring (get off at a random subway and wander around, see what I find)
    57. (If I’m lucky) Go to a korean wedding
    58. Learn a Kpop dance (Will do anyways since I have to do it for extracurricular classes for my korean classes)
    59. Go to Everland
    60. Get a new Korean haircut 
    61. Volunteer at Korea Burn
    62. GEt freaked out at the Plastic Surgery Museum
    63. Have a conversation completely in Korean
    64. Go to the Owl museum in seoul
    65. Go to the House of Sharing (cause it makes me angry knowing what happened)
    66. Go to Nami Island
    67. Watch some K dramas
    68. Go to the Trickeye Museum
    69. Go to the Mouse Rabbit Cafe (Super Junior site! Yesung and his brother’s cafe)
    70. Busan in General.
    71. Also Gyeongju
    72. And Olympic park
    73. Find Okpo Land at Geoje Island

    • 1 month ago
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