Seoul Man
Sorry.
I spent last weekend in Seoul and thought I'd jot down my impressions of this bussling metropolis: "Ehh."
It's pretty much a bigger (much bigger) version of Busan and I didn't find anything that awesome about it. It was crowded, smoggy and neon laden just like it is here. Also, westerners tend to be much more indifferent and cold than they are down here, to the point of avoiding eye contact when you pass them by. That just doesn't happen in my city. I shouldn't judge to harshly though since I spent much more of my time drinking crappy beer and hanging out with Katie than I did exploring the cultural aspects of the city. Mind you, I don't consider my time misspent.
I went up to visit Katie and we spent most of our time reminiscing about Prague, complaining about our
relationships and trying to figure out just what the hell we're doing here. We went to see a DJ from Brno, the Czech Republics second largest city, play in a really cool club in the center of the city. The club was brand new and very cool. Problem was nobody was in it. I counted 18 people on the dance floor when we walked in at midnight. Hoping it would get busier when the headliner went on we stuck around. Turns out though that they didn't sell enough tickets and the DJ refused to play. So we hung out, drank and danced till 3, much to the amusement of the small, predominantly Korean audience.
The next day I resolved to see something unique and cultural and Katie and I got lost.
Seoul's 12 million residents are served by a 10 line metro system and it's easy to get confused. We spent most of the time yelling at each other instead of seeing the sights and at one point I remarked to Katie "I hate you and I hate your city". It wasn't all that bad though. We found a shopping district that had people juggling while crossing the street, some weird promotional show going on and guys dressed like cats. Also we found this little gem while on an art walk of sorts. As far as we could tell it was a rainbow colored mosaic piece of shit. Korea is weird.
I took the KTX bullet train back down to Busan Monday morning and was treated to a spectacularly unimpressive view of the Korean countryside. Maybe I'm wrong but isn't stuff supposed to look better in the Spring? Everything was brown still and very, what's the word, hideously ugly. Maybe the train just doesn't go through the nice areas. I have made plans to visit a traditional village and temple in early May and hopefully I'll be reminded what it's like to live outside of a industrial area.
I spent last weekend in Seoul and thought I'd jot down my impressions of this bussling metropolis: "Ehh."
It's pretty much a bigger (much bigger) version of Busan and I didn't find anything that awesome about it. It was crowded, smoggy and neon laden just like it is here. Also, westerners tend to be much more indifferent and cold than they are down here, to the point of avoiding eye contact when you pass them by. That just doesn't happen in my city. I shouldn't judge to harshly though since I spent much more of my time drinking crappy beer and hanging out with Katie than I did exploring the cultural aspects of the city. Mind you, I don't consider my time misspent.
I went up to visit Katie and we spent most of our time reminiscing about Prague, complaining about our
relationships and trying to figure out just what the hell we're doing here. We went to see a DJ from Brno, the Czech Republics second largest city, play in a really cool club in the center of the city. The club was brand new and very cool. Problem was nobody was in it. I counted 18 people on the dance floor when we walked in at midnight. Hoping it would get busier when the headliner went on we stuck around. Turns out though that they didn't sell enough tickets and the DJ refused to play. So we hung out, drank and danced till 3, much to the amusement of the small, predominantly Korean audience.The next day I resolved to see something unique and cultural and Katie and I got lost.
Seoul's 12 million residents are served by a 10 line metro system and it's easy to get confused. We spent most of the time yelling at each other instead of seeing the sights and at one point I remarked to Katie "I hate you and I hate your city". It wasn't all that bad though. We found a shopping district that had people juggling while crossing the street, some weird promotional show going on and guys dressed like cats. Also we found this little gem while on an art walk of sorts. As far as we could tell it was a rainbow colored mosaic piece of shit. Korea is weird.I took the KTX bullet train back down to Busan Monday morning and was treated to a spectacularly unimpressive view of the Korean countryside. Maybe I'm wrong but isn't stuff supposed to look better in the Spring? Everything was brown still and very, what's the word, hideously ugly. Maybe the train just doesn't go through the nice areas. I have made plans to visit a traditional village and temple in early May and hopefully I'll be reminded what it's like to live outside of a industrial area.
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