Seoul 7 - Gangnam Style

I love Psy's Gangnam Style, and of course the hit song has made the posh area of Seoul, Gangnam, quite famous. As avid fans of the song/ dance and His Majesty Psy, we HAD to go to Gangnam and check out what all the hype is about. Some others from our hostel joined us. 

The area itself kind of reminded me of downtown Manhattan. The streets and sidewalks were wide and lined with tall buildings. We stopped in at a Krispy Kreme for fall-themed doughnuts and then headed to the 9th (?) exit of Gangnam Station where they have a stage set up dedicated to Gangnam Style. We sung and danced the song like stupid foreigners and then dragged this Korean man up on stage with us. He even looked a bit like Psy :0

I'm seriously missing Seoul so much. It was a great vacation and it was all made possible thanks to the coolest hostel ever. We stayed at Ed House in Hongdae and met amazing people. On our last night we celebrated Rachel's 22nd birthday and everyone came together to party, eat cake, and then later go out for karaoke. Missing everyone!

Seoul 4 - FOOD

Seoul has some of the best food of all the places I've been. Not only because it's delicious, but because it is omnipresent and inexpensive. I gorged on so much street food including hotak (fried dough filled with melted sugar and nuts), custard egg tarts, baked sweet potatoes, spicy rice cakes, and potato swirls on sticks. OMG. 

We also went out to eat quite a lot and since Seoul is so international we were able to try a variety of food options that aren't really available on Jeju Island. 

Not to mention -- KOREAN BBQ. I ate more Korean BBQ in that one week than I ever have in my life. Thankfully it's pretty much my favorite thing ever so I didn't get sick of it. On our last full day in Seoul we went out to lunch at an all you can eat Korean BBQ place and just got impregnated with massive tons of grilled meat and octopus. We stayed there for a good hour and a half just gorging ourselves until we felt like we'd explode with food. 

Seoul 3 - Trick Eye Museum

Right in Hongdae (the university district), where we were staying, they have a place called "The Trick Eye Museum." It's good for bigger groups of people but it's not really a place where you can go alone because the whole point of it is to take funny pictures with your friends. It's full of all these paintings that are set up to look 3D so that you can interact with them. 

First, though, we were shuttled into a freezing cold room with ice displays. They had an igloo and dolls frozen in ice (???) and an ice house with an ice toilet and ice bed. They also had an ice slide we could use. The funny thing was that before we went in we were handed blankets to wrap around ourselves. It looked super stupid but it was necessary after a few minutes in the sub-zero room. Kinda cool though !

The rest of our time there we spent wandering through the trick eye museum displays. Some of them were based of of famous works of art and others were just silly. Honestly it was so much fun. I definitely recommend going even though the price is a tad bit steep (15,000 won). It's especially fun if you go with people that have a good sense of humor.