Anyone took the s-train or v-train before?
Is it really good?

According to this

http://english.visitkorea.or.kr/enu/ATR/SI....jsp?cid=264167

Taejongdae Recreation Area (태종대유원지(부산))

Notices
    * Observatory of Taejongdae Recreation Area is closed due to renovation.
    - Period: March 2, 2016 until completion of remodeling construction (Planned for December, 2016)
Address
    24, Jeonmang-ro, Yeongdo-gu, Busan
    부산광역시 영도구 전망로 24 (동삼동)

had you been to jukseong dream church?

Anyone went to jeonju before? Or solo to jeju before? Going to skip busan cos getting too touristy compared April 2014 which air Asia busan was newly launched that time. Planning next year autumn

Hahaha korea is like second home to me..last time before ringgit currency drops on 2014 managed to travel japan and korea for 1mth. That time Japanese yen 100yen- rm2.9, now sighs currency very bad but still wanna travel while I still can hahaha. Now aiming for non touristy in korea. Even kansai area kyoto japan also very touristy. Guesthouse fully booked

Will be in Seoul and Jeju for 8d8n.. 2 person, but only 1 phone..
know about the Wiyo rm12/d.. but thinking not worthy just for 1 phone usage..
but i check KT.Co, 10days package is like whooping 140 ringgit..

Any cheaper alternative guys?

Xie Xie

can u tell me more bout the bathhouse
im thinking to stay 1 or 2 nite there as part of the experience

the locker big enuf for backpack?
security? at open area, if i fall asleep... will someone steal my phone or broke the locker?

seem like korea is quite safe... compared to msia 
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backpack size... medium... about 30L - 50L

if the backpack is too big for the locker, can the owner keep the backpack behind the counter?
nothing valuable inside... not even camera

wallet n passport will be kept in locker

been to jalgalchi?

wonder how to buy the fish and get it cooked to eat ? 

Buying local stuff to cook is what I would like to do.

Where would you suggest that I go for the "buy local stuff" ?

Prefer seafood, but if there's good beef I'm always up for it.

Apparently some palaces are opened at night during the autumn. Those who are there now perhaps can go have a look. Quite romantic

Going to korea next mth
Wat syiok to buy there? I mean cheaper compare here

Agreed. Last week I saw someone left a baby stroller outside the restaurant with the baby still sleeping inside totally unattended 
South Korea is the most wired city in the world. A picture of you is captured by the CCTV on an average of every 10 seconds once you walk out of a building in Seoul.

I was there for two weeks recently. I arrived there a few days before the 10 days long China national holiday. There were so many PRC and Chinese written banners everywhere. Promoters were shouting in Mandarin. Street vendors in Myeongdong were shouting in Mandarin too. I was at one point confused if I was in Seoul or Beijing 

Actually I stayed in Sindorim... Pretty far from Myeongdong. Orange cab ride cost me KRW18,000 - KRW20,000 each way. But of course since it is such a happening place I went there several times during my two weeks stay in Seoul 

Nobody really approached me though. But it was probably I showed a long face so no promoters will approach me. I avoided speaking Chinese as I do not want to be mistaken as PRC.

It was actually my 9th time going to Seoul. My last trip to Seoul prior to my recent trip was 23 months ago and I did notice some changes, not so good ones unfortunately. I noticed the locals are not so friendly and polite anymore, a stark contrast compared to my first ever trip to Seoul in year 2011. The place have also become dirtier (I do not know if the huge tourist arrival from China had anything to do with it).

And another thing I noticed is that many young PRC work for those street vendors in Myeongdong these days. Many of the Chinese speaking staff in major department stores and those cosmetic shops are actually PRC citizens too, not Korean. Just a few years ago, many Mandarin speaking staff are actually Korean. I suppose with the huge influx of tourist from Mainland China they couldn't get Korean to study Chinese fast enough so they resort to hire those PRC university students studying in Korea instead.

Still much cheaper to buy in Seoul though especially during the grand sale period and tax refund.

Not quite so. Orange cab is no longer considered as international taxi anymore and the flag down fare for the orange cab now is exactly the same as the silver cab which is KRW3,000. Eventually all silver cab will disappear from Seoul for good as they change the regular cab color to orange color.

Totally different scenario for us though. On our first two days there, 4 different Korean people approached us for directions. Not a first though. I've been approached for directions in Tokyo and Osaka too. I think that unless one has a very typical Korean face (normally squarish like Park Ji Sung), or a typical Japanese face, it will be hard to tell whether you are Japanese, Korean or Chinese as we're all East Asian.

Anyway, when it was my turn, she asked if I need a bag and I said yes. I bought 3 pieces of sweaters so they are very bulky when folded. But she gave me a really small plastic bag. The guy before me bought only 2 shirts but she gave him a big plastic bag 

These days even at 5-star hotel like Sheraton Seoul D Cube at Sindorim-dong some staff are not friendly anymore. It was magical the last 8 times I stayed with them. That was the main reason I kept going back to the same hotel even though it is quite some distance away from places I like to hang out such as Myeongdong and Gangnam.

Lol I remember when I wanted to ask directions at the airport and tried to speak some Korean the lady replied to me immediately with Mandarin. Hilarious.

IME, the moment you speak Korean and you have an accent, they will usually reply you in Mandarin. Happened to me long ago when I first went to Korea to work, especially since I was in Busan. I couldn't understand the dialect in Busan at all, so it was very awkward for me as I studied the language with Seoul dialect.
The only way I got over it was I kept speaking in Korean despite the difference in accent and my still poor vocabulary at that time, eventually people will just be like "oh whatever.. I'll just speak in Korean". That's the only way to  realistically improve in the language.

And I do agree that recently, many locals are starting to get a little more "unpolite". The youngster ones are kind of mix 50/50, many of them are like brainwashed to being "westernized" now a days. Then the middle-age ones, they're either very polite or they give zero F about who you are.
The older ones... don't need to say la. It's built into their blood to be as rude as possible because age = superiority in Korea.

But generally, it's really still not that bad. I mean compared to other Asian countries like China for example... lol, Koreans are like angels.

Having read up a fair bit in preparation for my travel, everyone says Busan is a lot better than Seoul.

I guess it would be like KL vs Kuantan.

Perhaps I could try and target an assignment in Korea hahahaha.....

Naww.. I'm back in Malaysia now. Was working in Busan MBC for 1 and a half years back in 2010-2012. The first 4-5 months was so, so difficult! I could barely understand people and people couldn't understand me. Had to rely on friends from Seoul to actually "translate" the dialect lol!

Won't say I'm very fluent la haha. Enough to go wherever and do mostly anything without much trouble. I only had issues when it comes to very official settings, but fortunately I wasn't involved in that most of the time.

Now a days just going back to S.Korea is just for leisure only. Language is no big deal.
If you ask me, Busan is more like JB in size. But people do say Busan is better is because it's somewhat less hectic there. Things are calmer in Busan, more laid back. People are also generally nicer there, you can see less stress in their faces. They're also not so worried about every single little thing about what's "right" and what's "wrong".

Going to Seoul is like going to a significantly better KL. That's how I see it and that's the general feeling. When I ask Koreans who has came to KL and stayed here for years, they always say that KL is like the older generation of Seoul, they're just a few years back on basically everything.
For them it's like traveling in time back to Seoul when they are in KL. I feel the same way when going to Seoul, it's like a KL that should already be as advanced and modernized as Seoul, but sadly isn't for whatever million reasons.

Still with some great savings with all the offers they had two weeks ago that lasted just 3 days (1-3 Oct). Tax refund was good too. Compared to The Face Shop, Nature Republic, Innisfree in Malaysia, it is still a lot cheaper to buy in Korea even with the unfavorable Ringgit to Won exchange rate.
The crowd is what I like most about Myeongdong. And Gangnam... I normally schedule my visit to Gangnam either on Friday or Saturday evening just because of the crowd. I like huge crowd so nobody really notices us   

yvonnesoo I still struggle to decide which place I should pick for 7nights in Seoul...
Any intro on guesthouse or hotel?

Yeah, totally enjoyed my time in MBC even though it was difficult. Well if there's ONE thing that KL does beat Seoul in is probably the shopping malls. I mean, IMO we have Pavillion, KLCC, Paradigm, the whole Star Hill thing... yeah COEX, D-Cube, Lotte, Times Square... yeah they're there but really not as well done as our super shopping malls.

I asked Seoul-borned Koreans and they feel the same way. Not that they can't shop for anything they ever wanted though of course.Oh yeah! LOOOVE the way they do tax refund in Seoul now a days. Most places offers instant tax refund now, don't need to line up like a fool in the airport anymore.

Haha had many young ones try to speak konglish to me. Hilarious but at least they try.