Hehe...Dunkin Donuts for breakfast. I LOVE NORMAL FOOD.
Sunday was a mostly lazy day. I broke the Sabbath and went shopping. Oops.
More odd clothing:
This jewelry store had a whole section designated for couples' watches!
Yay for another normal meal:
It was a very westernized restaurant, but still had a nice Korean touch (for example, the barbecue chicken still had a lot of skin, fat, and bones...).
We went and saw Maze Runner (my second time seeing it...but all the other films are Korean, so what were we to do?). We got a bucket of caramel corn that was delicious. But this was another option we could've had:
Squid combo. Only in Korean movie theaters.
Monday, back to the village:
Beautiful Hanbok!
(Again, hand-holding between friends of the same gender is completely normal here.)
Waiting in line for bibimbap...
Oh, Korean side dishes...I sure love looking at you...
And this is bibimbap:
I specifically chose the one on the menu with cooked beef, as opposed to the more common raw beef bibimbap. Bibimbap originated in Jeonju and has become a signature dish in Korea. It is rice with a spicy red sauce and a whole bunch of random vegetables. Quite good, but nothing I'd crave at home.
There was a full moon festival Monday evening (but we missed it, because of our travel arrangments, lame). But at least I got to participate in the decorating for the festival, haha. I made a little tissue paper pom-pom for this sign thingie (it spells something in Hangul, but I don't know what).
The cute girl who helped us make the pom-poms and tie them to the sign. I look like a giant.
Mmm...ice cream bars...
Within the village, you could pay 3000 won and visit this park. There were more of the traditional Korean buildings and some museum-ish stuff. And lots of people in Hanbok, which was fun to take pictures of:
This building was an archive of some sort of Korean texts...
The Preservation (Evacuation) of the Annals. Pronunciation is crucial here.
Check out these cuties in their Hanbok:
I creep on Korean children and babies. But who can resist this?
The only existing portrait of King Taejo of the Joseon Dynasty. Pretty cool stuff, I'm tellin' ya...
We briefly walked through another little museum place and saw this:
For 1000 won, you could print your own Korean text/picture--I'm assuming similar to ancient processes, but that information was in Korean...
They sprayed the paper with water and then you smacked it a bunch with the brushes. And then you stamped ink all over and, voila, a mountain scene:
Last item on our Hanok Village to-do/eat list: Bibimbap bingsu...haha.
Cris and I took a train back up north to where she lives in Yesan. The views from the train were incredible, as always. Korea is such a beautiful country:
Bright green rice fields for miles...
A picture of our half-eaten dinner (I forgot to take a picture before we dug in);
Potato pizza...it would have been good...but the yellow stuff in the cheese rolls is sweet potato, and it just tasted too weird. Too sweet for pizza. To make up for our less-than-satisfactory dinner, we got Baskin Robbins. Obviously.
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