On Sunday I was totally in the mood for some cultural exploration. Sadly, this did not hold for most of the others. Luckily, I managed to convince Sibylle, Philipp and Mark to join me on a trip to Changgyeonggung, which was recommended on one of our Seoul maps. We exited a the recommended subway station and followed the temple signs to a world heritage site. Despite the fame and beauty of the place, they certainly did not design the entrances for people of my size. Keeping my head low was rewarded by some traditional silver ware inside and a little bit of information on ancestral warship. The main temple site itself was so wide, it did not fit on my camera even when taking the picture at maximum distance with my back to the wall. When we were just about to leave again, we found out that we had actually visited Jongmyo, which not hold
for everyone, but I managed to convince had not been our intended destination. That was across a little bridge further to the north. So off we went to find another even more beautiful temple site with beautiful trees and a little lake in the back. Pretty exhausted from the trip, I managed to convince Sibylle and Philipp to join me for dinner in Dongdaemun, where I wanted to see what the stages had to offer at night. It was well worth it. After having dinner on the 9th level of one of the major malls, we headed down just in time to witness the beginning of a Korean musical talent
show. The show was even presented on TV and the current picture was displayed on a huge screen next to the stage. Probably due to Philipp's ability to get the three of us to be clapping and laughing a lot and maybe the fact, that we were the only European group around, we appeared on the big screen five (!!!) times. We even decided to buy some lighters to wave during the slower ballads, but the wind became stronger a second later and renderd
them more or less useless. Nevertheless, it was super fun and a really good and sometimes funny show. Upon returning to Nok-Du at around 22:30h, it didn't take much convincing by Claudine & Mark to get us to tag along to another hour of Karaoke, after which we sank to bed completely spent but smiling.
On Sunday I was totally in the mood for some cultural exploration. Sadly, this did not hold for most of the others. Luckily, I managed to convince Sibylle, Philipp and Mark to join me on a trip to Changgyeonggung, which was recommended on one of our Seoul maps. We exited a the recommended subway station and followed the temple signs to a world heritage site. Despite the fame and beauty of the place, they certainly did not design the entrances for people of my size. Keeping my head low was rewarded by some traditional silver ware inside and a little bit of information on ancestral warship. The main temple site itself was so wide, it did not fit on my camera even when taking the picture at maximum distance with my back to the wall. When we were just about to leave again, we found out that we had actually visited Jongmyo, which not hold 
for everyone, but I managed to convince had not been our intended destination. That was across a little bridge further to the north. So off we went to find another even more beautiful temple site with beautiful trees and a little lake in the back. Pretty exhausted from the trip, I managed to convince Sibylle and Philipp to join me for dinner in Dongdaemun, where I wanted to see what the stages had to offer at night. It was well worth it. After having dinner on the 9th level of one of the major malls, we headed down just in time to witness the beginning of a Korean musical talent 
show. The show was even presented on TV and the current picture was displayed on a huge screen next to the stage. Probably due to Philipp's ability to get the three of us to be clapping and laughing a lot and maybe the fact, that we were the only European group around, we appeared on the big screen five (!!!) times. We even decided to buy some lighters to wave during the slower ballads, but the wind became stronger a second later and renderd 
them more or less useless. Nevertheless, it was super fun and a really good and sometimes funny show. Upon returning to Nok-Du at around 22:30h, it didn't take much convincing by Claudine & Mark to get us to tag along to another hour of Karaoke, after which we sank to bed completely spent but smiling.
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