Day 44 - Insadong and K-Pop Concert

Today I slept in, as is typical for the weekends, and went to go get lunch with two of my friends. We went to a small Korean restaurant close to our university called 딸기, which means strawberry in Korean. It's located on the B1 floor of a nearby building, meaning the 1st basement floor. Almost every building in Korea has at least one basement floor but many have up to 4 or 5. The common way to order the floors (from lowest elevation to highest elevation) is like: B3, B2, B1, 1, 2, 3, etc.

My hot stone bowl meal at 딸기.

I had a beef and rice dish that was good and extremely hot. They served it in a stone bowl with a raw egg and the bowl is so hot that you fry the egg against the side of the bowl.

After lunch, we went to the Insadong district, which is about 20 minutes away by train, so that Eric could buy a cheap Korea Olympic team soccer jersey. They sell them in shops in Insadong for only 5,000 won, or about $4.47.

We found the jerseys quickly because I had already bought one before and we decided to walk until we found the next train station instead of retracing our steps. We saw some areas of Insadong we had never seen before and eventually got to another station that actually put us closer to Yonsei University.

A panoramic photo of the K-Pop concert in front of City Hall.

We took the train back to Yonsei and took a shower because of the sweltering daytime heat before meeting a few other friends and heading to 시촌역 (City Hall Station) to see M! Countdown, which is a free concert where the top 10 K-Pop artists perform each of their hit songs. The concert was cool and the teenage fan girls were CRAZY! They were running and screaming and chasing after the artists while security guards were holding them back. Some of them even had stepladders so that they could see above the crowds and take photos.

One of the K-Pop groups called A-Pink performing their top song right now.

After the concert we headed to the Hongdae district, which is the artistic college area that we often go to on weekends. We found a place that served really good nachos! They were the best I've had in Korea although I'm still very excited to eat good nachos again in America! Haha.

Good nachos!

That's all for now!