JAMES FALLISGAARD is a 21 year old Engineering student at UW living in Seattle. He's also lived in Sinchon, Seoul, South Korea, studying Korean at Yonsei University.
SOUTH KOREA - 2007.08.31 - DAY 04 (CONT’D)
Right, so tonight the rival Yonsei international-student / native-student mixing club, Mentors Club, threw its welcoming party for the fall semester. They rented out a big room on the 13th floor of a big skyscraper on the outskirts of Sinchon, overlooking the city.
Like IYC before it, I [...]
SOUTH KOREA - 2007.08.31 - DAY 04
But first some ice cream.
You don’t tip in Korea. Even better, restaurants and bars give YOU “service” which can be anything from free drinks and random other foods. This noodle place gave us a free ice cream cone. THANKS, exactly what I wanted.
NOW, about shopping.
So apparently [...]
SOUTH KOREA - 2007.08.30 - DAY 03 (Cont’d)
Yes, I did a lot today. I left the party in Hongdeh with some/alot of my new friends, and we returned to Sinchon to go hit a bar called FESTIVAL. Oh yea, this was my first night with Soju, Korean Rice liquor, so things get a [...]
SOUTH KOREA - 2007.08.30 - DAY 03 (Cont’d)
Yes. For me. So there are two Yonsei University clubs aimed at joint exchange student / native Korean interaction. One of them is IYC, or International Yonsei Community, and they hosted a party tonight in the neighboring burrow of Hongdeh at a rented out bar. [...]
SOUTH KOREA - 2007.08.30 - DAY 03 (Cont’d)
This is called Pat Bin Su (팥빙수) and it is de-li-cious. All sorts of (like TONS of) fresh fruit, some vanilla frozen yogurt, shaved ice, and most importantly: copious helpings of SWEET RED BEANsssss. Mmm i say:
Ryo and Jae Hee are preeetty preeeetty excited. [...]