๐ฌ๐๏ธโ๐จ๏ธ 2024-03-20
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๐บ๐ธ Starfield Library in the center of the COEX Mall. But before getting thereโฆ
๐ฐ๐ท ์ฝ์์ค๋ชฐ ์ค์ฌ์ ์๋ ๋ณ๋ง๋น ๋์๊ด. ํ์ง๋ง ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ๊น์ง ๊ฐ๊ธฐ ์ ์โฆ
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๐บ๐ธ This is the elementary school that I attended for three days before moving to Germany.
๐ฐ๐ท ๋ ์ผ๋ก ์ด์ฌ๊ฐ๊ธฐ ์ ์ 3์ผ๊ฐ ๋ค๋ ๋ ์ด๋ฑํ๊ต.
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๐บ๐ธ Seoul Arts Center. Itโs across from the street from the elementary school.
๐ฐ๐ท ์์ ์ ์ ๋น. ์ด๋ฑํ๊ต ๊ฑด๋ํธ์ ์์.
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๐บ๐ธ The bus. I took a video too. But I canโt 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? (Iโm not going to switch to Android just so I can upload videos directly to Ghost. The iPhone has too many work-related advantages.)
๐ฐ๐ท ๋ฒ์ค. ๋น๋์ค๋ ์ฐ์๋๋ฐ. ์์ดํฐ ๋น๋์ค๋ฅผ ๊ณ ์คํธ์ ์ง์ ์ฌ๋ฆด ์ ์๊ณ , MP4๋ก ์ปจ๋ฒํธ ํ๋ ค๊ณ ๋ณด๋ ํ์ง์ด ๋๋ฌด ๋จ์ด์ง๋๋ผ. ์ธ์ ์ฏค์ด๋ฉด ๋ชจ๋ ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ์ ์ต์ฅ์ ๋ค์ ๋ชจ์ ํด์ ๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ๊ฐ ๋ง๋ค๊น? (๊ณ ์คํธ์ ๋น๋์ค๋ฅผ ์ง์ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ ค๊ณ ์๋๋ก์ด๋๋ฅผ ์ฐ๊ธฐ ์์ํ ์ผ์ ์๋ค. ์์ดํฐ์ ์์ ๊ด๋ จ๋ ์ฅ์ ์ด ๋๋ฌด ๋ง์.)
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๐บ๐ธ 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 isnโt available in that language, it shows that something in Korean.
Which is disappointing for users who donโt speak Korean. The app is excellent in Korean, but there are so many foreigners in Seoul now, itโs interesting that this app doesnโt have full English support.
Speaking of which, all Seoul subways Iโve 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.
๐ฐ๐ท ์นด์นด์ค๋งต. ์ด์ํ๊ฒ๋, ์ด๋ค ํ์ด์ง๋ ์์ด๋ก ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ , ์ด๋ค ํ์ด์ง๋ (์์ ์ฌ์ง๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ ๊ฒ์) ํ๊ตญ์ด + ์์ด๋ก ๋ณด์ฌ์ค๋ค. ์ด ๋๋ฌธ์, ์ฑ์ด ์์คํ ๋ํดํธ ์ธ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์ํ๋ (๋ด ํฐ์ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ์๋ ์์ด), ๋ญ๊ฐ๊ฐ ๊ทธ ์ธ์ด๋ก ์ ๊ณต๋์ง ์์ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ์๋ ํ๊ตญ์ด ๋ด์ฉ์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ค๋ค๊ณ ์ฌ๊ธฐ๊ณ ์๋ค.
์ด๋ ํ๊ตญ์ด๋ฅผ ์ฐ์ง ์๋ ์ฌ์ฉ์์๊ฒ๋ ์ค๋ง์ค๋ฝ๋ค. ํ๊ตญ์ด๋ก๋ ์ด ์ฑ์ด ๋๋ฌด ์ข์๋ฐ, ์ด์ ์์ธ์ ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ์ด ๋์ณ๋๊ฑด๋ง, ์ฑ์์ ์์ ํ ์์ด ์ง์์ด ๋์ง ์๋๋ค๋ ๊ฒ ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กญ๋ค.
๋ง์ด ๋์จ ๊น์: ๋ด๊ฐ ํ ์์ธ์ ์งํ์ฒ ์ ์ ๋ถ ์์ด ํ์งํ + ์ ์ฒ ๋ด์ ์์ด ์๋ด๊ฐ ์ ๋์ด ์์๋ค. (๊ฐ๋์ ์ค๊ตญ์ด์ ์ผ๋ณธ์ด ์๋ด๋ ์์.) ๋ฐ๋ฉด ๋ฒ์ค๋ ์ผ๋ฐ์ผ๋ค. ์๋ก์ด ๋ฒ์ค์์ ์์ด ์ง์์ด ๋ ์ ๋๋ค.
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๐บ๐ธ The subway map for Seoul & surrounding regions. You can go pretty much anywhere with the subway.
๐ฐ๐ท ์์ธ & ๊ทธ ์ฃผ๋ณ ์ง์ญ์ ์งํ์ฒ ๋ ธ์ ๋. ์งํ์ฒ ๋ก ์ฌ๋งํ๋ฉด ์ด๋๋ ๊ฐ ์ ์์.
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๐บ๐ธ 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 goodโcompared to the average movie food in the USโalthough overpriced.
๐ฐ๐ท ๊ทธ๋ฆฌํ์ฌ ์ฝ์์ค์ ๋์ฐฉ. ๋ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ผ๋ก ๋งํ์๋ฉด, ๋ฉ๊ฐ๋ฐ์ค ์ํ๊ด. ์ฌ์ง์์ ๋ณด์ด๋ฏ์ด, ๋ด๊ฐ ๋์ฐฉํ์ ๋๋ ํ ํ ๋น์ด์์๋๋ฐ, ๋์ค์๋ ์ข ๋ ๋ถ๋ณ๋ค.
์ํ๊ด ์์์ ๋จน์ด๋ณด๊ธธ ๋ฐ๋. ์ค์ ๋ก ๊ด์ถํจ. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ ํ๊ท ์ ์ธ ์ํ๊ด ์์์ ๋นํ๋ฉด์ผ! ๋ค๋ง ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ ๋น์.
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๐บ๐ธ 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.
๐ฐ๐ท ํ์์ด๋ ๋ด๊ฐ ๋ณธ ์ํ๋ <ํ๋ฌ>์๋ค. ๋๋ ํ๊ตญ ์ค์ปฌํธ ์ฅ๋ฅด๋ฅผ ๋งค์ฐ ์ข์ํ๋ค. ๊ฒ๋ค๊ฐ ์ด ์ํ๋ ์ํ๊ด์์ ๋ณผ ๊ฐ์น๊ฐ ์์๋ค. ์ฌ์ด๋๊ฐ ์์ฒญ ์ข์๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊น๊ณ ์์ ๊ทธ๋ฅ ํ๋ฒ๋๊ฒ ๋๋ฌด ์๋ฆ๋ต๊ณ , ๊น๊ณ ์ + ์ด๋ํ์ ์ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ๋ ธ๋๋ฅผ ์ํ๋ ๊ฑฐ์ง? ๋์ฒด ์ด๊ฒ ๋ญ ์ผ์ด๋? ํ๊ตญ์์ ๋ฌด๋น ํ๋ ค๋ฉด ๋ ธ๋๋ฅผ ์ด๋ฆฌ ์ํด์ผ ํ๋? ์ฌ์ง์ด ๊ณ ์์ ์ถค๋ ์ ์ถ๋? ๋ฌด๋น ์ถค์ ์ฃผ๋๋ฐ ์ถค ์ ์ถ๋ ๊ฒ ํฐ๊ฐ ๋๋? ๋ญ์ง? ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋๋ฌธ์? ๋๋ฌด ์๋ฆ๋ค์.
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๐บ๐ธ 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.
๐ฐ๐ท ํฌ! ํ๊ตญ ์คํ์ผ ํฌ๊ฐ ์ง์ง ๋ฒ ํธ๋จ ์คํ์ผ์ ๊ฐ๊น์ด์ง๋ ๋ชจ๋ฅธ๋ค. ๋ฒ ํธ๋จ ๋ด์์๋ ์ฐจ์ด๊ฐ ์๋ค๋ ๋ง์ ๋ฃ๊ธฐ๋ ํ๋ค. ๋ํ ๊ฒฝํ์ ๋ฐํ์ผ๋ก, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ํน์ ์ ํฌ ์คํ์ผ์ด ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ํ๊ตญ ํน์ ์ ํฌ ์คํ์ผ์ด ์๋ค๋ ๊ฑธ ์๋ค.
๋ ๋ค ์ข์ํ๋ค. ํ๊ตญ์ ์์ผ๋ฉด ๊ทธ ํน์ ํ ํ๊ตญ ์คํ์ผ ํฌ๋ฅผ ๋จน๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ข์ํ๋ค. ๋๊ฐ, ํ๊ตญ ์คํ์ผ์ด ์ข ๋ ์ ๋๋ก ๋ ์์ฌ์ฒ๋ผ ๋๊ปด์ง๋ค. ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋๊ป๊ณ ๊ตญ๋ฌผ์ ์งํ๋ค.
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๐บ๐ธ On the way home. In my entire life, Iโve only ever felt unsafe in the nighttime Seoul streets once or twice. The picture above was taken maybeโฆ 11:30pm ish? But even when Iโm walking around at 3am or 4am, I donโt feel unsafe.
Of course, itโs 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 โneed to be protectedโ or some such thing.
Maybe my feeling this way just means that Iโm from America. Even compared to small cities in America that are supposed to be โfull of familiesโ (which, when the proliferation of โfamiliesโ is used as a shortcut description for the safety level of a city, I always think itโs laughable; as if criminals donโt have families or families donโt consist of criminals), Seoul the megacity feels way safer.
๐ฐ๐ท ์ง์ ๊ฐ๋ ๊ธธ. ๋ด ํ์์ ์์ธ์ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฐค์ ๋์๋ค๋๋ฉด์ ์์ ํ์ง ์๋ค๊ณ ๋๋ ๊ฒ ํ ๋ฒ์ธ๊ฐ ๋ ๋ฒ๋ฐ์ ๋์ง ์๋๋ค. ์์ ์ฌ์ง์ ์๋ง๋โฆ ๋ฐค 11์ ๋ฐ์ฏค์ ์ฐ์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์๋ฐ, ์๋ฒฝ 3์๋ 4์์ ๋์๋ค๋ ๋๋ ์์ ํ์ง ์๋ค๊ณ ๋๋ผ์ง ์๋๋ค.
๋ฌผ๋ก , ๋ฎ์ด๋ ๋ฐค์ด๋ ํญ์ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ๋ฅผ ํ๋ ํธ์ด ์ข๊ธด ํ๋ค. ๊ฐ๋ก ๊ฐ์ ์ผ์ด ์ผ์ด๋ค๋ ๋ฐ์๋ ๋ฏธ์น ๋ ์ ํ๋๋ฉด ์ถฉ๋ถํ๋๊น. ๋ํ, ์์ ์์ค์ ๋๋ค์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ๋ค๋ฅด๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ผ์๋ ๋ถ๊ตฌํ๊ณ , ๋์ฒด์ ์ผ๋ก, ์์ธ์ ๋ถ๋ช ๋ชจ๋๋ฅผ ๋๋ ค์ํ๊ฑฐ๋ โ๋ณดํธ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์์ผ ํ๋คโ๋ ์์ ๋๋์ ๊ฐ์ง ํ์๊ฐ ์๋ ๋์๋ค.
์ด์ฉ๋ฉด ๋ด๊ฐ ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ๋๋ผ๋ ๊ฑด ๊ทธ์ ๋ด๊ฐ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์์ ์๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋งํด์ฃผ๋์ง๋ ๋ชจ๋ฅธ๋ค. โ๊ฐ์กฑ๋ค๋ก ๊ฐ๋ํ๋คโ๋ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ ์๋์๋ค์ ๋น๊ตํด๋ (๊ฐ์กฑ์ด ๋ง๋ค๋ ๊ฒ ํ ๋์์ ์์ ์์ค์ ๋ํ ์ง๋ฆ๊ธธ์ค๋ฌ์ด ๋ฌ์ฌ๋ก ์ด์ฉ๋ ๋, ๋ ๊ทธ๊ฒ ํญ์ ์ฐธ ์ฐ์ต๋คโ๋ง์น ๋ฒ์ฃ์๋ ๊ฐ์กฑ์ด ์๊ฑฐ๋ ๊ฐ์กฑ์๋ ๋ฒ์ฃ์๊ฐ ์๋ค๋ ๋ฏ์ด), ๋ฉ๊ฐ์ํฐ์ธ ์์ธ์ด ํจ์ฌ ์์ ํ๊ฒ ๋๊ปด์ง๋ค.