My first few days

The last few days have been adventurous, and really hot. On Friday I first wandered on my own, and took some photos, and got myself a 50mm f1.8 lens at the Yonsan electronics market. Its a seven story electronics marked that you can buy used and new electronics. You can get really good deal on second hand stuff, but on new items you really have to barter to get down to the prices they give in the bigger chains. Of course bartering on second hand stuff can give you a real steal. I Then of course had to test my lens resulting in these photos I was quite happy with: 

This Photo shows some quite classic high rise buildings in Seoul.

This is from the subway, and plays heavily on the low depth of field one get with a low aperture setting. 

Later that day I met up with some other international students in Gangnam, we went to the Coex mall, which is a large one floor mall, that is easy to get lost in. Gangnam is a really fancy new area, where the rich and powerful live, and a lot of businesses keep their offices here. There is a lot of interesting architecture here. Here is a building some might recognise from the captivating song: Gangnam style, by PSY: 

Here are the three international students I met up with aswel:

So this is Juliana and Dessie.

And this is Kazimiera and Juliana again. After that we went for a drink in central Gangnam. We were very tired because both Kaizimera and I had arrived that same day. All the bars at ground level were full, but we ended up finding one in the fifth floor at one building that was nearly empty. So here is what you can see if you end up in a bar in Korea: 

On my way home, i got to go through this street: 

Seoul at night is full of colours. It's really beautiful. 

The next day i started my day with Kimchijigge. It's a hot Kimchi soup, served with banchan and rice like any food in Korea. It has port and tofu in it, and you can get it down to 5000 won ( 25 kr) with all things included. I am not sick of spicy breakfast yet!

Delicious, delicious Korean food. I went to the Myungdong market to look around, and completely forgot to take pictures. It was that good! I need to go back there. If not to take pictures, to eat the marvellous man-doh! I ate five big man-doh buns, for 3000 won (15 kr). I was completely full. It must be one of the best places to try different korean foods.

After Even and Christian came, we went out to meet the others for Samgyopsal. André from Norway joined us. It was really good. We went to a self-serve beer bar, called Bomb Beer. Its a cool principle, and I'd like to write more about it when I have more pictures, this time, I really only got this one thats worth posting: 

And with that I will end my scribbling of today. I have gotten a bit further than this at the moment, and I am starting to realize that I can't possible write everything that happens. I guess it will be more mundane when the semester starts. But I have some theme posts i might wan to do later.

Until then, goodbye.

Hans