Sunday, 11th November 2018
Incheon Airport - Myeongdong - Coex Mall - SM Town Centre - Myeongdong
Started with 3°C. It was so cold and we could feel that we were trapped inside the fridge ^^.
We arrived at Terminal 1 Incheon Airport. It took a while with the immigration things and we grabbed our luggage. After all things finished we went to information service to ask about bus service. So, the information guy said that we could check the bus by the information guide touchscreen (In hangul and english). Then we met two choices, bus number 6001 or 6015 to our backpacker place in Myeongdong. Both of the buses were parked in front of gate number 5B. But the 6015 would stop around uniqlo myeongdong (which mean we have to stroll around Myeongdong and walked across the main road to our place), and the 6001 would stop near the MRT station and we just had to take a short walk to the backpacker place. So we decided to take the 6001 bus. A middle aged man that didn't speak English help is when we waited for the bus and told the driver that we wanted to be dropped off at Myeongdong.
So here we go, we topped up our T-money in "CU shop"(You can buy T-money in the convenience store). We topped up ₩30.000 /each person. You can use T-money for all transportation and when you buy something at convenience store. The bus rate was ₩14.000/person from Incheon to Seoul(You can pick bus/train/MRT to go to Seoul, the cheapest one was MRT, but it really difficult when you have to carry big luggage with you and take long stairs to MRT station).
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| Seoul's street |
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| Foliage |
It took about an hour to arrive in Seoul, but I made quite mistake because I was so tired but overwhelming at once because of the beautiful autumn scenery. For the first time we saw yellow ginko, red maples, golden sugar maples and brown trees. "Ooh, so this is called Autumn foliage,now I know", that was my thoughts at that time. All was so gloomy but pretty.
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| Yellow Gingko |
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| Traffic in Seoul |
Finally we saw that "pacific hotel" symbol which mean we'd already near our backpacker place. We forgot to order early check in, so we just dropped our things at lobby and went to "Chicken two two" to have lunch. We ordered half and half chicken which was standing for half fried and half marinated chicken. And I would like recommend the marinated one! We ordered french fries as well. I think one plate of chicken and fries are enough for three persons, but if you a big eater, I suggest you to order some rice/
bap. After that, we went back to our backpacker place and before that we went to minimart to buy hot Hersey milk choco drink and it tasted so damn good because of the cold weather. After that we stayed in our backpacker place underground lobby which was warm and at around 02.30 pm we could enter our room as they promised. At 04.00 pm, our friend, Chaca came and brought dried leaves.
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| "Two Two Chicken" near our place |
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Two Two Chicken Menu :
Half and Half Marinated Chicken W 18.000
French Fries W 10.000 |
--"Hi, Potter, did you se my glasses?" ^^
Got MRT train and headed to Coex Mall to see how the local spending their time in a 'not-so-big' mall but the popular one. It took almost an hour from Myeongdong to reach Coex Mall with MRT. Then here we were, trapped in such a big library with some book shelves that seemed to be written in a Harry Potter book, that kinda magical giant library. The place was warm enough and become a best choice to runaway from that cold temperature and a little rain outside the mall. It wasn't a really bright room, but in every corner of that place, a cute yellow lamp was placed on a little table to light up the athmosphere.
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| Starfield Library |
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| Book Shelf with Animal Mozaic |
In the corner of the room, there was a couple who read book and discussed about it, while behind them there was a young man read novel and drinking his coffee. There was a big and large table with some charging ports was placed in the centre of the room, so anyone who want to read or work there can bring laptop and feel comfortable. This place served so many good books from A-Z, written by locals and foreign author in Hangul and English. So, that was a heaven for all of you, bookworms...! ^^
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| Colorful Books |
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| Library Galaxy Lamps |
When we got there we hanged out for a while in Starfield Library, ate dinner at foodcourt, buy some soap in Pierro shop and went to
SM town centre. In
SM town centre Chaca and me bought postcards and took some photos near some SM artist's awards. We saw some giant poster of popular korean singers, the trophy, the concert pics and souvenir. I was not really into Korean popular singer, so we just strolled around for a while.
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| SM Artist Collage |
At night, we went back to Myeongdong and bought street foods like
mochi, fishbread
(bungeoppang),egg cake
(gyeranppang) and strawberry mochi
(dakkogi). The best
bungeoppang or fish bread were in front of Myeongdong station and inside Myeongdong street
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| Fish bread a.k.a Bungeoppang ₩ 3.000 for 6 pieces |
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| Egg Cake a.k.a Gyeranppang ₩ 2.000/each |
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| Shrimp King ₩6.000/each |
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| Strawberry Mochi a.k.a Dakkogi ₩2.500/each |
Tips of the day :
* How to go to Myeongdong from Incheon Airport
- Ask to the airport information staff about the transportation choices.
- Take a bus from gate 5B
- Choose bus number 6001 near Pacific hotel or 6015 near Uniqlo.
* Where to get cheap toiletries products for souvenir
- Pierro pierro shop in Coex Mall (there were so many good and affordable brand such as 'Plu' body scrub, 'Happy Bath' body wash, 'ryeo' ginseng shampoo, etc)
*What's good? Streetsnack in Myeongdong
- Strawberry mochi/dakkogi ₩2.500(fresh, sweet and tasty)
- Fish bread/Bungeoppang ₩ 3.000 for 6 pieces(fish-shaped-pancake with mustard creamy filling or red bean, both of it tasted good)
-Fish cake/Odeng ₩1.500 (Salted but tasty cake with hot soup)
- Shrimp King around ₩ 6.000 for 4 pieces of BBQ shrimp(a bit pricey,but when you tried it, you will love it)
- Orange Juice ₩4.000(real fresh juice)
