๐ŸŽฌ๐Ÿ‘๏ธโ€๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ 2024-03-20

๐ŸŽฌ๐Ÿ‘๏ธโ€๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ 2024-03-20

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Starfield Library in the center of the COEX Mall. But before getting thereโ€ฆ

๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท ์ฝ”์—‘์Šค๋ชฐ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์— ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ณ„๋งˆ๋‹น ๋„์„œ๊ด€. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ฐ€๊ธฐ ์ „์—โ€ฆ

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ This is the elementary school that I attended for three days before moving to Germany.

๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท ๋…์ผ๋กœ ์ด์‚ฌ๊ฐ€๊ธฐ ์ „์— 3์ผ๊ฐ„ ๋‹ค๋…”๋˜ ์ดˆ๋“ฑํ•™๊ต.

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Seoul Arts Center. Itโ€™s across from the street from the elementary school.

๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท ์˜ˆ์ˆ ์˜ ์ „๋‹น. ์ดˆ๋“ฑํ•™๊ต ๊ฑด๋„ˆํŽธ์— ์žˆ์Œ.

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ The bus. I took a video too. But I canโ€™t directly upload iPhone videos to Ghost and when I tried conversion to MP4, the quality was so poor. When is someone going to build a tool that has all the best aspects of all devices? (Iโ€™m not going to switch to Android just so I can upload videos directly to Ghost. The iPhone has too many work-related advantages.)

๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท ๋ฒ„์Šค. ๋น„๋””์˜ค๋„ ์ฐ์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ. ์•„์ดํฐ ๋น„๋””์˜ค๋ฅผ ๊ณ ์ŠคํŠธ์— ์ง์ ‘ ์˜ฌ๋ฆด ์ˆœ ์—†๊ณ , MP4๋กœ ์ปจ๋ฒ„ํŠธ ํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ  ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ํ™”์งˆ์ด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋–จ์–ด์ง€๋”๋ผ. ์–ธ์ œ์ฏค์ด๋ฉด ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ์˜ ์ตœ์žฅ์ ๋“ค์„ ๋ชจ์€ ํˆด์„ ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊นŒ? (๊ณ ์ŠคํŠธ์— ๋น„๋””์˜ค๋ฅผ ์ง์ ‘ ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ ค๊ณ  ์•ˆ๋“œ๋กœ์ด๋“œ๋ฅผ ์“ฐ๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•  ์ผ์€ ์—†๋‹ค. ์•„์ดํฐ์€ ์ž‘์—… ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ์žฅ์ ์ด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋งŽ์Œ.)

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ On the KakaoMap app. Oddly, it shows me some pages in English and others (like the one in the pic above) in Korean + English. This makes me think that it reflects the system default language (which is English, on my phone), but when something isnโ€™t available in that language, it shows that something in Korean.

Which is disappointing for users who donโ€™t speak Korean. The app is excellent in Korean, but there are so many foreigners in Seoul now, itโ€™s interesting that this app doesnโ€™t have full English support.

Speaking of which, all Seoul subways Iโ€™ve been on have good English signs + English announcements within the trains. (There are also Chinese and Japanese announcements, sometimes.) On the other hand, with buses, it depends. Newer buses have better English support.

๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท ์นด์นด์˜ค๋งต. ์ด์ƒํ•˜๊ฒŒ๋„, ์–ด๋–ค ํŽ˜์ด์ง€๋Š” ์˜์–ด๋กœ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ , ์–ด๋–ค ํŽ˜์ด์ง€๋Š” (์œ„์˜ ์‚ฌ์ง„๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ฒƒ์€) ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด + ์˜์–ด๋กœ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค€๋‹ค. ์ด ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์—, ์•ฑ์ด ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ๋””ํดํŠธ ์–ธ์–ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•˜๋˜ (๋‚ด ํฐ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ์—๋Š” ์˜์–ด), ๋ญ”๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ ์–ธ์–ด๋กœ ์ œ๊ณต๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์„ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ์—๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค€๋‹ค๊ณ  ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

์ด๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด๋ฅผ ์“ฐ์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ์‹ค๋ง์Šค๋Ÿฝ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด๋กœ๋Š” ์ด ์•ฑ์ด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์ข‹์€๋ฐ, ์ด์ œ ์„œ์šธ์— ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ์ด ๋„˜์ณ๋‚˜๊ฑด๋งŒ, ์•ฑ์—์„œ ์™„์ „ํ•œ ์˜์–ด ์ง€์›์ด ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กญ๋‹ค.

๋ง์ด ๋‚˜์˜จ ๊น€์—: ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ํƒ„ ์„œ์šธ์˜ ์ง€ํ•˜์ฒ ์€ ์ „๋ถ€ ์˜์–ด ํ‘œ์ง€ํŒ + ์ „์ฒ  ๋‚ด์˜ ์˜์–ด ์•ˆ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์ž˜ ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค. (๊ฐ€๋”์€ ์ค‘๊ตญ์–ด์™€ ์ผ๋ณธ์–ด ์•ˆ๋‚ด๋„ ์žˆ์Œ.) ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด ๋ฒ„์Šค๋Š” ์ผ€๋ฐ”์ผ€๋‹ค. ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋ฒ„์Šค์—์„œ ์˜์–ด ์ง€์›์ด ๋” ์ž˜ ๋œ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ The subway map for Seoul & surrounding regions. You can go pretty much anywhere with the subway.

๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท ์„œ์šธ & ๊ทธ ์ฃผ๋ณ€ ์ง€์—ญ์˜ ์ง€ํ•˜์ฒ  ๋…ธ์„ ๋„. ์ง€ํ•˜์ฒ ๋กœ ์›ฌ๋งŒํ•˜๋ฉด ์–ด๋””๋“  ๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Œ.

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ And thusly I arrived at COEX. Specifically, Megabox, which is the movie theater. As shown in the picture, it was really empty at the time I arrived. Later on, it became more crowded.

Do try movie theater food. It is actually goodโ€”compared to the average movie food in the USโ€”although overpriced.

๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท ๊ทธ๋ฆฌํ•˜์—ฌ ์ฝ”์—‘์Šค์— ๋„์ฐฉ. ๋” ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋งํ•˜์ž๋ฉด, ๋ฉ”๊ฐ€๋ฐ•์Šค ์˜ํ™”๊ด€. ์‚ฌ์ง„์—์„œ ๋ณด์ด๋“ฏ์ด, ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋„์ฐฉํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ๋Š” ํ……ํ…… ๋น„์–ด์žˆ์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ๋‚˜์ค‘์—๋Š” ์ข€ ๋” ๋ถ๋ณ๋‹ค.

์˜ํ™”๊ด€ ์Œ์‹์„ ๋จน์–ด๋ณด๊ธธ ๋ฐ”๋žŒ. ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ๊ดœ์ถ˜ํ•จ. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ํ‰๊ท ์ ์ธ ์˜ํ™”๊ด€ ์Œ์‹์— ๋น„ํ•˜๋ฉด์•ผ! ๋‹ค๋งŒ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์€ ๋น„์Œˆ.

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ The movie Hyewon and I watched was <Exhuma>. I love the Korean occult genre. Plus, this movie was worth watching at the movie theater. The sound was great. Also Kim Ko-Eun is just goshdarn gorgeous and she and Lee Do-Hyun are frigginโ€™ great singers? WTH? Do you have to sing this well to be a shaman in Korea? Also she dances well? Like, she dances shaman dances and you can tell she dances well? What? How? She is so beautiful.

๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท ํ˜œ์›์ด๋ž‘ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋ณธ ์˜ํ™”๋Š” <ํŒŒ๋ฌ˜>์˜€๋‹ค. ๋‚˜๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ ์˜ค์ปฌํŠธ ์žฅ๋ฅด๋ฅผ ๋งค์šฐ ์ข‹์•„ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ฒŒ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์ด ์˜ํ™”๋Š” ์˜ํ™”๊ด€์—์„œ ๋ณผ ๊ฐ€์น˜๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ์šด๋“œ๊ฐ€ ์—„์ฒญ ์ข‹์•˜๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊น€๊ณ ์€์€ ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ํ—ˆ๋ฒŒ๋‚˜๊ฒŒ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ต๊ณ , ๊น€๊ณ ์€ + ์ด๋„ํ˜„์€ ์™œ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋…ธ๋ž˜๋ฅผ ์ž˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์ง€? ๋Œ€์ฒด ์ด๊ฒŒ ๋ญ” ์ผ์ด๋ž˜? ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ๋ฌด๋‹น ํ•˜๋ ค๋ฉด ๋…ธ๋ž˜๋ฅผ ์ด๋ฆฌ ์ž˜ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋‚˜? ์‹ฌ์ง€์–ด ๊ณ ์€์€ ์ถค๋„ ์ž˜ ์ถ”๋Š”? ๋ฌด๋‹น ์ถค์„ ์ฃผ๋Š”๋ฐ ์ถค ์ž˜ ์ถ”๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ํ‹ฐ๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜๋Š”? ๋ญ์ง€? ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์—? ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์›€.

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Pho! I do not know if K-style Pho is close to the authentic Vietnamese style. I did hear that within Vietnam, there are variations. Also I know from experience that there is a distinct American style to Pho & distinct Korean style to Pho.

I like both. When in Korea, I like eating Pho for that specific Korean style. In general, K-style feels more like a proper meal with thick meat and rich broth.

๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท ํฌ! ํ•œ๊ตญ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์ง„์งœ ๋ฒ ํŠธ๋‚จ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ์— ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด์ง€๋Š” ๋ชจ๋ฅธ๋‹ค. ๋ฒ ํŠธ๋‚จ ๋‚ด์—์„œ๋„ ์ฐจ์ด๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋ง์„ ๋“ฃ๊ธฐ๋Š” ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ํŠน์œ ์˜ ํฌ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ์ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํ•œ๊ตญ ํŠน์œ ์˜ ํฌ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฑธ ์•ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‘˜ ๋‹ค ์ข‹์•„ํ•œ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๊ตญ์— ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ๊ทธ ํŠน์ •ํ•œ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ ํฌ๋ฅผ ๋จน๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ข‹์•„ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋Œ€๊ฐœ, ํ•œ๊ตญ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ์ด ์ข€ ๋” ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋œ ์‹์‚ฌ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋Š๊ปด์ง„๋‹ค. ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋‘๊ป๊ณ  ๊ตญ๋ฌผ์€ ์ง„ํ•˜๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ On the way home. In my entire life, Iโ€™ve only ever felt unsafe in the nighttime Seoul streets once or twice. The picture above was taken maybeโ€ฆ 11:30pm ish? But even when Iโ€™m walking around at 3am or 4am, I donโ€™t feel unsafe.

Of course, itโ€™s a good idea to always be alert, be it day or night; it only takes one crazy creep for shit to happen. Also, safety levels will vary depending on the neighborhood. Still, overall, Seoul is definitely not a city where you have to fear everyone or โ€œneed to be protectedโ€ or some such thing.

Maybe my feeling this way just means that Iโ€™m from America. Even compared to small cities in America that are supposed to be โ€œfull of familiesโ€ (which, when the proliferation of โ€œfamiliesโ€ is used as a shortcut description for the safety level of a city, I always think itโ€™s laughable; as if criminals donโ€™t have families or families donโ€™t consist of criminals), Seoul the megacity feels way safer.

๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท ์ง‘์— ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ธธ. ๋‚ด ํ‰์ƒ์„ ์„œ์šธ์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฐค์— ๋Œ์•„๋‹ค๋‹ˆ๋ฉด์„œ ์•ˆ์ „ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋Š๋‚€ ๊ฒŒ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ์ธ๊ฐ€ ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ๋ฐ–์— ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค. ์œ„์˜ ์‚ฌ์ง„์€ ์•„๋งˆ๋„โ€ฆ ๋ฐค 11์‹œ ๋ฐ˜์ฏค์— ์ฐ์€ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์€๋ฐ, ์ƒˆ๋ฒฝ 3์‹œ๋‚˜ 4์‹œ์— ๋Œ์•„๋‹ค๋‹ ๋•Œ๋„ ์•ˆ์ „ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋Š๋ผ์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค.

๋ฌผ๋ก , ๋‚ฎ์ด๋“  ๋ฐค์ด๋“  ํ•ญ์ƒ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ํ•˜๋Š” ํŽธ์ด ์ข‹๊ธด ํ•˜๋‹ค. ๊ฐœ๋–ก ๊ฐ™์€ ์ผ์ด ์ผ์–ด๋‹ค๋Š” ๋ฐ์—๋Š” ๋ฏธ์นœ ๋…€์„ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋ฉด ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•˜๋‹ˆ๊นŒ. ๋˜ํ•œ, ์•ˆ์ „ ์ˆ˜์ค€์€ ๋™๋„ค์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋‹ค๋ฅด๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ , ๋Œ€์ฒด์ ์œผ๋กœ, ์„œ์šธ์€ ๋ถ„๋ช… ๋ชจ๋‘๋ฅผ ๋‘๋ ค์›Œํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ โ€œ๋ณดํ˜ธ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์•„์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹คโ€๋Š” ์‹์˜ ๋Š๋‚Œ์„ ๊ฐ€์งˆ ํ•„์š”๊ฐ€ ์—†๋Š” ๋„์‹œ๋‹ค.

์–ด์ฉŒ๋ฉด ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋Š๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฑด ๊ทธ์ € ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์™”๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋งํ•ด์ฃผ๋Š”์ง€๋„ ๋ชจ๋ฅธ๋‹ค. โ€œ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ํ•˜๋‹คโ€๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ์†Œ๋„์‹œ๋“ค์— ๋น„๊ตํ•ด๋„ (๊ฐ€์กฑ์ด ๋งŽ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ํ•œ ๋„์‹œ์˜ ์•ˆ์ „ ์ˆ˜์ค€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ง€๋ฆ„๊ธธ์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ๋ฌ˜์‚ฌ๋กœ ์ด์šฉ๋  ๋•Œ, ๋‚œ ๊ทธ๊ฒŒ ํ•ญ์ƒ ์ฐธ ์šฐ์Šต๋‹คโ€”๋งˆ์น˜ ๋ฒ”์ฃ„์ž๋Š” ๊ฐ€์กฑ์ด ์—†๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๊ฐ€์กฑ์—๋Š” ๋ฒ”์ฃ„์ž๊ฐ€ ์—†๋‹ค๋Š” ๋“ฏ์ด), ๋ฉ”๊ฐ€์‹œํ‹ฐ์ธ ์„œ์šธ์ด ํ›จ์”ฌ ์•ˆ์ „ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋Š๊ปด์ง„๋‹ค.