Yeah very long walk to the ticketing counter...that stair reminded me of Bt Cave...(i watched how Kim Sam Soon walked up to the ticketing booth meeting Hyun Bin on the cable car & kena locked up there...so romantic..

I think My Name is Kim Sam Soon really featured N-Tower to the fullest liao..haha..Another Tower I wanted to go..No 63 City. The highest point was featured in another famous DDrama - MyGirl ..the cutie Lee Dae hae..

Check the latest weather lor..very accurate wan..Last week was exception bcos last week temp dropped to sub zero due to the Northern wind. that snow is just nasib-nasib nia..Real snow started end of Dec till Feb according too my research.. ..At this hour Seoul Temp = 7C colddddd...

Saturday forcasted at 13C day & 4C nite:
http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/47117.html

If not bcos of Air Asia..u think this thread will be so active kah..

Diff destination diff A330 specs..since AA using leased planes from other airlines, certain ex-airlines planes probably having spacious legroom & seat inflight entertainment..Probably to Korea using an ex-budget airline plane liao

Bring or buy latest netbook wth battery that can last >8hrs such as Acer aspire or Asus Netbook that cn last 11hrs can liao..

Aeiou, if u check those Kdramas, u can see those hawkers in Seoul operating from makeshift canvas & also from vans....I'm thinking of makaning those food to hv the feel of Kdramas & also the soju (Shao jiu - Burnt wine in mandarin haha)

can we shorten to "Dongdaemun seyo" ...That's what I think they can understand kua,,haha

Wah the xchange rate really not to market..just compare to this Shinhan bank:
buying 366.8 selling 359.54

http://www.visitseoul.net/en/info/exchange...4007002007&p=07

Meaning no point bringing US$ there also..bad xchange rate at the airport

BTW, you got it wrong liao..meaning is

If you wanna buy Won, for every RM1, they will sell you 327 won..and if you wanna convert bck to RM, they will buy the won from you at every 390 won give you back RM1..meaning slaughtering people liao..Hope you can report on the US$ instead bcos RM probably badly traded in Korea.

Saw these type of stalls featured in lotsa Kdramas:



Probably will be eating this type of food..probably cheaper hor? Can get for <2000won-kah?

Aigoooo...ariso...so expensive...

Also saw lotsa kdramas actors/actress like this:


Wanna try this satay celup. lok-lok too... .I think 1000won for 3 ?

The wikimapia link to Dongdaemun ( or the big eastern gate) is here

http://wikimapia.org/#lat=37.5711559&lon=1...49&z=18&l=0&m=b

Wondering where is the exact location of the shopping district? East west South or North of this ancient landmark?

Nandaemun market (South gate) & myeongDong market are clearly marked but not dongdaemun..funiii

Actually they are not really originate from China-lah. they have their own Empire and even have their own 3 warring states or kingdoms Gorguyeo (north), Bakje (West-possible the origin of japanese ) and Silla (Related to Han Chinese - East)

Similar to ancient japan, korea and Vietnam, All were using Chinese characters before Japanese started inventing their own katakana (~1000yrs ago) and Korean king Sojeon in 15th century created Korean alphabet & Vietnam romanised their chinese literature during French time.

The Koreans have their distinct language wth lotsa loan words from chinese nia..but no evidence they were part of chinese empire before ..Well from my understanding-lah

Thousands years of assimilation wth Chinese lor..haha...Thus more than 50% of the words are borrowed from Chines (Similarly to Japanese)..Well probably b4 the 3 Korean Kingdom states, The korean peninsular might be directly controlled by Chinese or as those Chinese dramas.."The Babarians" More refering to the mongols & manchu..well..Korean having lotsa similarities to Monggols as well rather than Chinese from what I read

Even those Historic gates/walls also similar name to Chinese mah..such as:

- Dong Dae mun - Chinese - Tong ta men (Big Eastern Gate)
- Nam Dae Mun - Chinese Nan Ta men (Big Southern Gate)
- Nam San - Chinese - similar ronounciation- South Hill

Not really modified-lah..The current Korean words actually more like romanise wording like ABCD...Very easy to learn wan...It was created by King Sejong after realising that Chinese characters so difficult to memorise & certain chinese characters can't 100% represent spoken korean..(Fo eg..I dun think any chinese character to represent korean sounding words such as the "Yo" & "mida" haha

So easy way out..create the abcde..things..haha Trust me..you can read Korean within 5 days..Only ~ 20++ characters and join it to words..You can even use Korean character to write in Malay or English

This post has been edited by stimix: Nov 17 2010, 11:15 PM

Yeah so sad.. All currencies getting better and an edge over RM liao..So sad..I'm praying hard it will dropped by nxt mth

Time running fast..need to speed up my rojak Korean language & watch more Kdramas

The last booklet you can get from their office in MUI Plaza wan..haha..I got it during travel fair in Mid Valley months ago

Very good rate. Today, Money changer in front of BB Plaza qouting RM2.90 and Wawasan RM2.98.

BTW, Citibank charge you commission or not?

AEIOU, possible give the wikimapia of these two pasar ah..interesting to me too..

Ye. It's OK..I got the Garak wholesales market coordinate liao...yeah just beside Rodeo street...(Gonna put this on 1st pg)

http://wikimapia.org/#lat=37.4942689&lon=1...73&z=14&l=0&m=b

The Naryangin Market can't find wor...where ha?

Nami Island good place to go? Thinking of skipping this too..not enuf time haha.

Today temperature start to drop again...Sub zero possible Tonite & coming days..take care