Trip To Korea Plan #1

I'll go to Korea this October with my friends. So it will be only 3 of us who will go there. We have a very tight budget and some more don't know where to go but still insist doing backpacking. We have this idea of we will go wherever our legs take us. Yeah. We just made up some plan just to get idea where to start exploring.

We have like 9 days after exclude arrival and departure day. By the way, korean won is expensive. Almost equal to US dollar here. For example, 1 USD is around MYR3.10 and 1,000 won (천원) is around MYR3.00.

We met few days ago to discuss about the trip. We still can't decide where we'll sleep but we have plan for places to go.

First day
- Just explore places nearby our hostel.
- Find basic tools and information to survive over there such as mobile phone (in case we got lost), T-Money and convenience store location.

Second day (History day)
- Go to palaces and Hanok village. Something like that

Third day
- Go further away. Petite France, Nami Island and somewhere else.
Even though Nami Island is not on our favorite list but since everyone here who came back from Korea have been there and that is the only place my parents know about Korea. So, just let's go over there to take picture!

Fourth day
- Namsan Tower, Teddy Bear Museum, Itaewon / Lotte World

Fifth day
- Explore shopping places. Just to take a feel first and try to learn how to bargain there.

Sixth day
- Hangang Park, MBC and KBS

Seventh day
- Go To Mall.

Eighth Day
- Maybe wander around KPOP fans favourite places.

Ninth day
- Do final shopping. Wander around some more. Sleep at airport maybe because our flight is at early in the morning.

Do drop a comment if you have any idea or a good suggestion of places that we should visit in our trip to Korea. See ya!

Planning A Trip To South Korea

One day, my friend asked me," Let's go to South Korea next year."

At that moment, I just said,"Yeah. Sure. Why not." without knowing any interesting places over there. I don't know where should I go and what kind of activity should I try.

So, I did what anyone else will do, I google-ed  about it.

Here I list down several places that I should go (or try to go) within my 10 days trip :-

1. Lotte World (롯데월드)
2. Insadong
3. Myeongdong
4. Hongdae
5. Namdaemun Market
6. Gyeongbokgung Palace
7. Bukchon Hanok Village (북촌한옥마을)
8. Seoul Central Mosque
9. Cheonggyecheon Stream
10. Namsan Tower
11. Korea Folk Village
12. Han River Cruise
13. Nami Island
14. Petite France (쁘띠 프랑스)
15. Jeju
16. Busan

For now, I must go to Korea Folk Village (한국민속촌) to see Arang & The Magistrate filming scene and Trick Art Museum because of Heartstrings. Hehe.

While I'm searching on how to go to Jeju, I saw one familiar name - Pink Dolphin. Adam Couple! It's a ferry to go to Jeju from Mokpo ferry terminal.

Have you been to Korea before? Can you suggest me any interesting places to visit and activities I can do over there? :)