Day 2 CSL and Folk Village

it seemed that there was a bit of snowing overnight since the the amount of snow sort of increased. noooo i missed it?? well, there should be plenty of chances to see it in the next few days i hope.

breakfast at dunkin! they have some pretty nice wraps!

visited CSL office in the morning. just look at the streets! it was a pretty fine morning. though the weather was still too cold for me to adjust to.

there's no bus that goes to shine ville from yong-in, so taxi's the only way.
 and here's the office~

and a collage of the team members greet you at the door. i'm at the bottom left corner!

i feel like i'm entering some kind of exhibition. look, my favourite karas armour. must shake hands with it kyaaaa~~~

and all the studio scenes...

and if you enter here, you'll find 2 more studio rooms. wowwww.

also visited 00's crazy dogs. here's the front of his house. the buggy takes us around shine ville.

they were so pretty but scary because of the barking cacophony -w- i wanna step in to hug them but i'm afraid i might become dog food. they didn't bite when i petted them though.

we had lunch delivered to the office. their service is super fast, reaching within 15-20mins of ordering. i think their delivery box is so cool hurhur

i think i'm not that used to the food though. wasabi sauce all over this thingy.

and super spicy onion rice. mwaaaa...

i think only the kimchi and the soup was good.

after lunch, we went to visit the korean folk village, where all the historical dramas was filmed at. whooooo~~!!

mwahahah i'm so proud to say i watched almost 80% of those on the timeline. hur.
hmm not sure what these hanging things are but it's nice~

general picture of the landscape and the historical lives

museum that showcase the lives of the people then. picture spamming time.

actually the funny thing about this picture is that the bugs proportions are much bigger than the humans. horrors or horrors, perhaps in joseon, they have mutated godzilla bugs???

food food food!

comic strips on the zodiac animals

here's some pictures of the houses. actually they all look so similar i can't really tell which appeared in the dramas, or which belong to the nobles/scholars etc.

 

this place looks very iljimae to me.

unless, of course, they are marked like this. hehehh.

swing swing!

here's some nice frozen lakes and pagodas i took. think rooftop prince was done here/

iced lakes!

this looks like arang has been filmed here...

 

 i mean, you see, even the magistrate was there.

eysh. of course, here's the real one.

and i'm holding his hands *w*

some more drama scenes!

kyaaa~~~ the king's man area!

there's even a museum for the mask dance. moooooo~

and what's a mask museum without gonggil right?!?!

and what's the point of coming here if i don't take pictures with gonggil right!?!?

the costume place was already closed, but at least i managed to take this oh well

my foot was already freezing like crazy by then. ended the tour and returned for dinner... bbq with the members~

met hyunbin and aryeong officially that day too (those 2 at the back).

and after dinner, we went for some baskin robbins.

this tub is seriously huge. bought 2 at first but decided 1 should be brought back to the office.
 THANK GOD. if i continue eating like i did i'm gonna put on 1kg everyday.

returned to the hotel for the night. whee~~~!

Day 1 Arrival at Gimpo

so i went to korea over the dec holidays. thank goodness i checked my schedule again because i realised i was gonna arrive at gimpo and not incheon =_= so i got up at like 5am and headed to the airport, reaching about 8am. plane was scheduled to leave 930am. plenty of time for me to loiter around in fact.

took air china over since it was the cheapest available flights at this period. was bracing myself for a rough ride but the plane turned out pleasant! entertainment was good, seat was good. watched 2.5 movies - snow white and the huntsmen, and licoln vampire hunter. nutcracker was bad, didn't finish it.

since i had transfer flight, i got to have 2 meals. YAY. airplane food for the wins!

reached beijing for an almost 3 hours rest.

thank goodness my colleague told me beforehand that the transit would be in the middle of the tracks and you had to take a shuttle bus to the airport, so i was well-prepared with my winter jackets. there were terminals where if you scan your passport, you get wifi login to surf. took the plane around 630 towards seoul. my dinner~

reached gimpo in 2 hours. no entertainment, but i was entertained enough by my food anyway. was around 945pm when i got out. looooooong flight.
but it was all worth it since the first person i see was you. <3 p="p">

managed to take the 10pm bus towards yong-in, then checked in at a nearby Hotel Cinema. not a bad place! it's 60k won for a normal room, and 70k per night for a special room.

oh the room is a little messy because i only remembered to take the pictures the next day. haha.there's one big twin bed and a single bed. i would have been fine with a normal room actually, but oh well. they have almost everything (including like facial foam and moisturizer etc, computer even) except bath robes.

bathroom is huge!!

nyan~ ^_^ my first winter! and i'm seeing snow!! it was -10degrees. but i don't know the first few snow scenes i saw was the dirty black streets - because melted snow with dirt.. created black lumps of i don't know what. so sad. hopefully i get to see the sky snowing soon!