I'm late, I'm late ... I had to post this article, two days ago ....
before yesterday I returned from Korea. Despite the bad luck that I continued throughout the stay in Seoul, it went well. I arrived Tuesday evening and came away Friday. It was short!
Making a comparison with Japan is inevitable, but I'll try not to dwell too. Although Japan remains my favorite country, I enjoyed Seoul, I also really wanted to come back and try to discover this country and its culture by myself. Korea (at least what little I saw) is very different in Japan: culture, language, cuisine, climate, people too. Where Japan has away from the Asian culture (or rather Chinese?) Korea comes close: the Confucianism, a religion (exacerbated) the ancestors or old and more ... The historical legacy explains much. The Korean language is similar to the Japanese language but not much that can be said of French and English or Italian. Sometimes I seem to hear the Japanese except I did not understand anything! The writing is obviously not the same. I confess that I had so much trouble to adapt the mere sight of a kanji brought me some comfort ...
Otherwise, read on. \\ (^ O ^) /
Tuesday - arrival - day "I jinxed" No. 1
Actually, I had bad luck before arriving in Seoul. It started on the way to go to Nagoya Airport (or Chubu International Airport). I fly around 15 hours, I left campus to 11:15 to get ahead ... Theoretically, it takes 1 hour 30 minutes at most to get there. Gifted as I am, I was wrong train to Kanayama and I've realized at the terminal one hour after entering because I'm sleepy. (> _ <) Je me suis donc retrouvée à l'opposé de là où se trouve l'aéroport. Et il a fallu encore une heure trente pour m'y rendre. Je suis arrivée 1/4 d'heure avant la fin de l'enregistrement... Gros moment de stress... (-.-){"ouf!" L'enregistrement s'est bien passé, le vol aussi. A titre d'anecdotes, l'hôtesse qui m'a enregistrée pensait qu'il y avait un instrument de musique dans ma valise (qui a la forme d'un étui à guitare bien que cela me fait penser à un cercueil), on a eu du mal à se comprendre parce que je voyais pas de quoi elle me parlait, et après durant tout le vol, on m'a prise pour une japonaise (j'ai moins fait la maligne quand j'ai dû remplir le papier pour la douane). Arrivée à l'aéroport d'Incheon, je n'ai pas eu de problème particulier à part que je n'ai pas pu retirer mes wons dans le premier DAB que j'ai essayé. J'y reviendrai. Après avoir déposé ma valise à ma guest house à Sinseol-dong (très sympathique d'ailleurs), j'ai retrouvé Noodle qui m'a emmenée dîner quelque part (je sais pas trop ce que j'ai mangé d'ailleurs) et on a pris un green tea latte dans un café tout mignon tenu par l'un de ses amis coréens. Le soir même, j'ai vu la nouvelle place où se trouve deux statuts de personnages importants coréens (le roi qui a inventé le hangul et un guerrier qui a repoussé les japonais à la fin du 19e siècle), une des portes de Séoul et un bâtiment qui me fait beaucoup penser à Osaka.
Wednesday - day "I jinxed" No. 2 - it rains
I found the noodle in the late morning. We had lunch in a restaurant-cafeteria near Anguk. I ate a bimbimbap bulgori and tasted. I already knew the first course: it is a sort of fairly spicy fried rice with some meat and julienned vegetables. The second is made from marinated meat sautéed. Generally it's not like I love beef and beef, I'm not too fond.
My guide is then assigned me to visit lots of places I can not remember their names: some temples, palaces and traditional Korean village reconstructed (it is not very far from a tower and a time capsule of Seoul).
the evening we went to a fast food restaurant, my first in Asia (and probably the first since a year) to eat a hamburger steak with shrimp. It was not bad but that does not mean I converted to junk food coréanisée.
Thursday - day "I still have bad luck" No. 3 - it snows
After the rain, snow ... It could have been worse, but fortunately there was no storm. It was joined in the early afternoon for lunch together (look for the error). We went to a restaurant making barbecue (Korean). It was fun except the pig liver I tasted to see what it was and the chili I ate for the malignant and set fire to my mouth and my tastebuds shorted for 1 / 2 hours.
Then we went to the temple Jongmyo where lie the minds (not body) of former kings and queens of Korea. It was pretty nice in the snow, slightly less than the mixture of sand, water and snow melt, and yet almost melted.
Late afternoon, we joined friends Korean Noodle near the University of Seoul. We had dinner at 18 pm (just after tasting at Starbucks - White chocolate and muffin Moccha - all that I had more hunger) and then spent the evening together ... Know that even after "dinner", Koreans still drink alcohol and eat (again) at the same time.
Friday - day "I HAVE bad luck" No. 3 - start - it was still snowing
This last day was pretty short because I had to leave around 15 hours. In the morning, I participated in a program to learn how to make kimchi. It was fun indeed, the course was in Japanese (it was not intended). Then, for lunch, I have joined the noodle to eat a "donkatsu" giant. We then left and I went to the airport. While I waited patiently, I received an sms from the BNP: debit balance of 8 €, triple withdrawal of a sum of 133 €. At the time, I thought they had taken into account my unsuccessful withdrawals from the other day. I checked my account yesterday, the money has been re-credited. Had this not been the case, I was very annoyed.
Back to Nagoya!
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