Korean Folk Village. is where we’re headed. Since our internet cellphones still suck (i’m not exactly sure how those phones work) i had to go outside and a couple steps away from the building in order to get enough reception to give Ashley a call and see if she was coming with. aiya…
Anyways, Ashley shows up later and researches a bit about getting a prepaid phone and tries to contact Jenny, who landed the same day we did but never contacted us – -; and banana milk is good. there’s a strawberry milk too, and some blue one that says lite… hmm.
We walked a long way to get to the bus stop that would take us there. There were a LOT of bus stops that take you to random farther places, it’s similar to the GO bus stops but…. for 1800 won (approx 1.80$) and it’s tied to the subway thing so the same pass works on the bus, awesome. it took about 40 minutes to get to the village, which would be the equivalent to our Pioneer Village, same concept.
All of the staff wore the traditional hanboks and there were several gift shops that sold the same thing… haha. before we went in, we passed by a palm reading machine. All of us got a reading for fun and most of the reading seemed to be pretty precise somehow, and all of ours was different-ish. Of course, it took a while to read out since only ashley can read and translate it 😛 I only remember that i’m too honest in love 😉 and uhm… i’m bound to have several little arguments with my future wife 0.o lol and i’m a good worker when i put my mind to it and stuff like that, i wish i wrote it down.
We went in and made our way through. We didnt really learn too much since we just walked around and took pictures :D… We took pictures of Senangdang (statues of faces, similar to totem poles 0.o?) and saw different kinds of homes for the rich and poor, servants and different jobs. Walked into the ‘police station’ of the times and tried on the traditional uniform with a spear! and played in the jail. hahahah… a nobleman’s mansion that included guest and servant wings, which made it that much bigger. there were three museums which we paid for but they were….. not that informative. altho Ashley explained some things about the zodiac days and what traditionally happened on those days such as being more careful around knives and stuff on a certain day. and that mother’s would dream of different things to predict whether their baby would be a boy or a girl. phallic type objects would represent a boy and other things, a girl. Ashley’s mother dreamt of fish apparently. that seemed pretty interesting…
We went to a small swing set area where you stand on it and use your whole body to swing yourself up, i had a lot of trouble T_T karen did pretty good tho. we headed back out to the front to eat at the restaurant, 4 out of 5 of us ordered bibimbap which was pretty good. havent had a meal yet that didnt taste goooood. 😀
Ashley had to meet her family at a certain subway station so we had to leave right after. finding the same bus going back to the same stop we got on at. and the shopping resumes… dangerous. i’ve spent a LOT already……. but this time, i’m also buying for other people 😉
We’ve only shopped a couple days and have looked forward to finding Basic House and UNIQLO which sell a lot of polos and basic things, but… they’re so nice. altho sorta expensive. sometimes. 😀 after going through a bunch of shops around Gangnam, and seeing the awesome multi-use touchscreens on the street, we headed off to COEX Mall again for the sake of Karen.
This time it was SO different and you actually had space to move around. but it actually seemed sort of… dead. o well. i was in most of them already so i just sat outside waiting 😛 the aquarium and kimchi museum was closed so we didn’t visit them. We also checked out the touchscreen interactive map, which was frakkin awesome. i explained it to my co-workers:
COEX Mall Interactive MAP. Language, Search, Popular Places, Info, Customer Service, Buildings Around, Restrooms, Parking, ATM.
You can click any of the 3D Blocks on the map and it will give you information, Name, Times of Op, Directions, and a general description
Directions will simulate a character walking through Where you are to where you want to go, also providing distance in meters and time
Also, the top of the screen has Weather, Time, Date and a 2D Map. At the bottom, advertisements.
Another cool addition was a button at the bottom labelled Handicapped/Children which would bring up the main toolbar at the bottom instead of the middle of the screen.
I have a video of it but I don’t have the willpower at the moment to get it encoded smaller and sent
that was easy 😀
and we ate at Jackie’s Kitchen 😀 Korean-style chinese food, hahaha. was pretty good too! aaaaaaand back home. i always end up sleeping after shower, uploading pictures, and i’m totally out a couple minutes after i lie down.
The Palm reading machine 😛
The Interactive Touchscreen Map!!
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