I Want To Move To Myeongdong!
May. 21st, 2025 10:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
purplehello98Okay, so our last big trip into Seoul was the other day when we went into Gangnam and Myeongdon! Yes, there's a statue with the hands from the Gangnam Style dance, and yes, I took a video of me doing the dance in front of the statue. (I promise I wasn't making a cake of myself, everyone was doing it!) Then we went to one of the big malls in Seoul, to Korean McDonald's. They have mozzarella sticks over here, which are really good, and the bulgogi burger was yummy, too!
And I went into a K-pop shop called KTown4U and found... let's just say a haul. I'll lay out all my albums and upload a photo to the blog when i get home, but for now let's just see my total haul of the trip is... a lot. But I finally found some Verivery albums! Naturally, in the wild! I bought a good few--one of every one I didn't already have, and even the other versions of albums I already have! It was EPIC.
We also went to see the K-pop bears! They have bears along a street in Gangnam, which is one of the streets that's so posh it has two Louis Vuitton shops. I'm not kidding. But they're all themed after older second-gen groups, including one themed after Girls' Generation! So of course I got photos with all of them, but especially that one.
And then we went to Myeongdong shopping district! It's a bunch of little streets with shops, and street vendors/street food in the middle! It was freaking AMAZING! There was an elderly guy on one of the streets who was singing anime theme songs and Chinese ballads whilst dressed as Mario, so we sat down and watched while I ate some dumplings.
And I found this other amazing K-pop shop called K-Mecca where I bought some fun souvenirs, and a cute phone loop for my flip phone (which sadly still doesn't get any service in Korea), and a random album box! Sadly, the boygroup version was sold out, but I got a girl group random album box. It was a big brown box with three little albums in! Full versions, three of them, for about $20 altogether!! I got Viviz's Loveade album, which I'd wanted for quite a while, and an NMixx album, and I forget the other one. It was really cool!
And somehow I even managed to tire out my Travelbug Aunt! I had plans to go and explore the K-pop stores underground in the Myeongdong train station, but didn't get to. Oh well! (I want to say there's something else I'm forgetting but I can't remember. Oh well.)
And that's about it. I have to go finish packing now because tomorrow morning's my flight! :( I'm really going to miss Korea--although this hotel, not so much. But this has been some of the most fun I've ever had. I really want to come back one day! But until then, so long Korea. It's been amazing being here. I love you!
And I went into a K-pop shop called KTown4U and found... let's just say a haul. I'll lay out all my albums and upload a photo to the blog when i get home, but for now let's just see my total haul of the trip is... a lot. But I finally found some Verivery albums! Naturally, in the wild! I bought a good few--one of every one I didn't already have, and even the other versions of albums I already have! It was EPIC.
We also went to see the K-pop bears! They have bears along a street in Gangnam, which is one of the streets that's so posh it has two Louis Vuitton shops. I'm not kidding. But they're all themed after older second-gen groups, including one themed after Girls' Generation! So of course I got photos with all of them, but especially that one.
And then we went to Myeongdong shopping district! It's a bunch of little streets with shops, and street vendors/street food in the middle! It was freaking AMAZING! There was an elderly guy on one of the streets who was singing anime theme songs and Chinese ballads whilst dressed as Mario, so we sat down and watched while I ate some dumplings.
And I found this other amazing K-pop shop called K-Mecca where I bought some fun souvenirs, and a cute phone loop for my flip phone (which sadly still doesn't get any service in Korea), and a random album box! Sadly, the boygroup version was sold out, but I got a girl group random album box. It was a big brown box with three little albums in! Full versions, three of them, for about $20 altogether!! I got Viviz's Loveade album, which I'd wanted for quite a while, and an NMixx album, and I forget the other one. It was really cool!
And somehow I even managed to tire out my Travelbug Aunt! I had plans to go and explore the K-pop stores underground in the Myeongdong train station, but didn't get to. Oh well! (I want to say there's something else I'm forgetting but I can't remember. Oh well.)
And that's about it. I have to go finish packing now because tomorrow morning's my flight! :( I'm really going to miss Korea--although this hotel, not so much. But this has been some of the most fun I've ever had. I really want to come back one day! But until then, so long Korea. It's been amazing being here. I love you!
