~ I’ve visited the electronics market once and WOW! It spans as far as the eye can see. (Sorry for the cliché. I know it is bad writing, but I am trying to get as much info down as quickly as
possible and it is the only thing I can thing of to describe how vast this place is. And yes, I know as much time as it has taken me to explain my bad writing, I probably could have thought of something better in its place but oh bother dash it all! I am only human….) You can find anything and everything related to electronics in this place. You have to be careful though. Fakes and phonies truly do look like the real thing in Korea….clothes and electronics included.~ I went to a barbeque in Itaewon on the rooftop of a friend’s friend’s apartment building. The view was abasolutely awesome, as you can see from the picture! We had yummy
hamburgers, hot dogs, chicken, salads, casseroles, dips, etc. It was like a barbeque back home! Made up of mostly foreigners, I met an interesting group of people, older than most others I’ve hung out with. Many of these people either used to teach or are still teaching. Several I met are involved with the Seoul Players, an English community theatre group here in Seoul! I’ve ushered one show for them and might audition for the next show that comes around…~ Shopping in Korea is amazing and overwhelming. There is SO much stuff…it is no
wonder Koreans are so into fashion when it is everywhere and sold so incredibly cheap! The problem I am finding, however, is that I am much bigger than the average Korean girl. I have to be careful of what I buy…most places don’t let you try things on!~ I really wish I had a picture of the HiSeoul Festival for Buddah’s birthday. I went on a Sunday evening, and wasn’t sure what to expect but what I saw was nothing I would have imagined. Koreans know how to put on an entertaining show. There were three stages set up in the middle of City Hall, with lights and streamers everywhere that changed colors. The most interesting thing of the evening was the repetitive event of young people wearing strange jester-like neon-colored costumes as they danced the same “Macarena” style dance (similar to what we did at the lantern festival) about 7 times over the course of an hour. While they did these dances, these TV screens flashed pictures that I found humorous looking of Buddah doing a happy dance overtop of various psychedelic backgrounds. I also got to hear (and sort of see from what I could stretch) “You’re the One that I Want” from Grease….in Korean. It was also incredibly strange! There were famous Korean singers, one who was famous about 10 years ago who is now in a wheelchair, and all kinds of different acts such as an all-girl drumming group, a tap dancer with a violinist, and the list goes on. At the end of the “shows,” my Korean friend told me that the announcer basically said, “Old people and children go home because it is late and we are going to have a dance party for the teenagers now.” Hahahaha, sometimes it is funny how blunt Koreans are…
~ The 2nd Annual Seoul World DJ Festival was…
well a DJ Festival. I’d never heard of any of the DJ’s or bands…which confused me in the first place. Why were bands playing at a DJ festival? Oh well…. It was not as big as I had thought it would be but it extended over two days. There were a lot of people there, both foreigners and Koreans alike, all dancing to very loud unce unce music. That’s about all I have to say about that really….~ “The BBoy and the Ballerina” was an amazing
show! Korean teenagers are REALLY into hip-hop right now so it was basically a show made for teens to go watch some really good live hip-hop dancing. I was a little disappointed in the ballet portion of the show...they weren't even en pointe! Oh well.... I have pictures and video clips of some of the dancing but it really doesn’t do the show justice. There was so much talent in this dance fest!Check out this video clip of some of the guys in the show!
OK enough for one entry….second one coming up soon with more catching up!
