91: Korea (II)

PART 2!!!
 So I'm not sure if there will be a part iii, but we'll see by the end of this post!

forgot to put this in the previous post, but we had to use the stylenanda photobooth hehe

On Day 2 I think (I don't remember very well!) we went to Dongdaemun to shop at Doota and eat some great samgyetang (ginseng chicken soup). Unfortunately I didn't take a good photo of the soup because I was way too hungry and cold! Also I really love samgyetang because it doesn't just consist of chicken, Korean ginseng and soup. They stuff rice into the chicken. R I C E. How to not be obsessed?!

After more shopping, we took a cab to Lotte World to shop and take a look at the largest indoor amusement park in the world..... In retrospect I forgot why we didn't go in, but I guess we didn't really plan to go in but we wanted to shop at Lotte Department Store there. (note: there was a LDS right next to our hotel, but this one was way bigger)

 

Day 3: Jade and I really love EXO (friends reading this pls don't judge me I love y'all) and they opened a pop-up store in Garosu-gil (in Gangnam-gu) that was originally supposed to close down in September, but because they were releasing a winter/christmassy album, the store is open for the whole of winter (blessed or what?!)
 

So after visiting the BWCW store (note again: we went there thrice. no ragrets.) and spending a significant amount of money on exo-related paraphernalia we left to shop along to streets of Gangnam and Garosu-gil!

I recognized a shop that I saw on a reality show and I had to go in to shop...... We went in only planning to look-see, but look-see always ends up as 'look-see-BUY!!!!!!'
We left the shop happy girls with our purchases and 2 new korean friends ^~^

Eunji 언니 (I talk to her on an almost daily basis, which is pretty cool. My broken Korean and her broken English makes it very entertaining.)

and another 언니!!! I never got her name even though we went back to visit twice, bc every time we went she would be busy manning the till or serving other customers :(

After which we walked around a little longer, and we wanted to go look for the entertainment agencies just for the fun of it. Who knew it would take 1.5 hours for us to find it? Prior to this we had found out how to get there, with various 'landmarks' we had to look out for and such. 

Crisis #1: A 20-min walk became a 1.5 hike around Gangnam/Apgujeong. 

Crisis #2: Took to long to find the agencies, so we decided to take a cab. Told the cab driver where it was in terrible Korean (must be the pronunciation, I swear) I said, "Dosan-daero 89-gil please!" and he brought us to 45-gil.

At this point I was fuming........... I mean, if he could bring us to 45-gil, why couldn't he find 89-gil? 

:(

Anyway, we got off the cab, because the cabby was getting frustrated and so were we. Walked 2km from 45-gil to 89-gil and finally we found CUBE cafe and JYPE!!!!!

(some toast thingmajiggy from CUBE cafe, which was rly good but too much for me)

Walked diagonally across to JYPE, in the hopes that someone famous would come out......... we gave up after 20 mins bc we still wanted to go to SM Ent.

Didn't take any photos of the SM Ent building cuz the new building looks pretty shabby compared to the old building (current global training centre)
I HAD REALLY HIGH HOPES THAT I WOULD BE ABLE TO SEE EXO OK (sian) because the new building has the same entrance and exit, which means anyone that was leaving or entering the building would be easily spotted......
Sobbles bc we didn't get to see them but it's ok we left to go shop again (lelelelel)

^Shinsegae which is really big and beautiful (inside and outside)

DAS OL FOR PART 2 I guess there will be a part 3 after all!!!

안녕 친구들 ^^