Day 4

It must be an auspicious day. We bumped into 2 wedding ceremonies, one in the Korean House, another one in the Korean Village. The similary of these 2 wedding is: the bridegroom is a Mat Salleh.


Family members and guests are seated in front of a simple 'stage'. Music players were playing traditional Korean music.


The groom was entering the bride's room to bring the bride out.

The groom was walking out, followed by the bride. The bride has to cover her face with her sleeves. Aiyoh, really pity her. She has to keep covering her face for a very long time.

The Korean house was packed with people attending the wedding ceremony. In another display room, a flat-screen plasma TV was showing the famous Korean drama Daejanggum. Fake food sample were on the tables.

Next to the Korean House, is the Korean Village.

These are the periuk belanga used to marinate kimchi.

On the other side of the wall, I saw tourists beating the dried herbs.

Toilet is named "make-up room".

Yeah... I love outdoor, light-and-easy tour. At the back of the Korean Village, is the Namsan Park. The park is well kept, equipped with gym facilities and clean public toilets. All public toilets are FOC.

Paths in Namsan Park lead to the Seoul Tower. Entrance to the Namsan Park is FOC. If you don't wanna walk ur free way up, u can take a taxi or a public bus.

Entrance up the Seoul Tower is terribly expensive. So, we just loitered around the foot of the tower.

Coincidentally, there was a Mat Salleh performer promoting his latest album. We enjoyed the Latin music very much. The talented performer charmed the audience with his songs by singing cum playing the guitar and percussion instruments. While he was not singing, he played the flute.

A gardening art: grassy football.

By the time we came downhill to the city, it was already pitched dark, though it was only 5.30pm. We lost our way to the subway coz we came uphill from path A and we went downhill thru path B. There're many paths. A good Samaritan showed us the way to the subway. Huh... not easy to communicate with the Koreans coz they only know the Korean language. The only word of communication is "Chungmuro". It's a subway station nearby the hilly area. Before that I kept on saying 'subway' and nobody understood me. Once reaching the subway station, we're safe. At least, we knew our location and we could read the English map.

I forgot to take picture of the delicious lunch we had, in a restaurant near the Korean Village. As we had a heavy and late lunch, we just had a light dinner. We ta pao kimbap (sushi), tau sar pao and vege sui kao back to our small hotel. The sushi here is very cheap. A roll of vege sushi only costs KRW 1k; while a roll of beef sushi costs KRW 2k. The vege sui kao is lagi cheap, 8 for KRW 1k.