Category Archives: Korea

My first Hanji

Our surprise plan today got canceled because the weather was much more rainy than it was supposed to be. So instead I went with Luna to her last day at “school”. She attended Hanji lessons for a few weeks in a shop. It’s traditional paper used to decorate various objects. I never really saw how it was done, so this was my chance. I also tried to do some stuff myself, but I am no artist so I gave up quite quickly. Anyway, that was interesting and the shop owners made some really nice objects. Some of them looks almost like real plants.
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Silent disco

Later on Saturday, after soju and lions, we went to eat some noodle soup (I still can’t believe you pay 4 bucks for so much food). And for a good digestion we played in arcade room, where Luna has the annoying habit to last longer than me in Time Crisis. Shame on me. But after we ran out of money, we went back to the streets and came across a silent disco right in front of us. Way to cool, not to join them. Here is a short video. You must enable sound to really enjoy that video.

Streets, soju and lions

Soju

This saturday we went to Seoul Open Night. An event to promote downtown activities. There is an area with traditional house filled with ateliers. So we headed there, walking in the street around midday was a pretty bad idea considering the heat. Since we didn’t find our goal directly, we walked around and I probably sweat 2-3 liters before we got the atelier.
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SmackSoft live at Pentaport Festival

This saturday we went to Pentaport Festival. It was my first Korean festival. Although Luna swore not all festivals are like that, there were seats in front of the scene. They were actually quite far so even though we sat on the first row we probably were 5 meters from artists. That was a shame, because we obviously couldn’t stand up in front of other people and I guess it didn’t help the ambiance. Anyway most people were probably over 40 years old. Honestly that looked pretty weird, there were no even a single food shop !
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