Mokin Museum in Insadong, Seoul
A visit to the Mokin Museum in Insadong, Seoul is the perfect complement to the Chicken Art Museum. Mokins are wooden figures used to decorate funeral carriages.
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The Seoul Museum of History
When I first visited Seoul, I more or less aimlessly wandered around and somehow reached the Seoul Museum of History but didn’t go inside it. If you know your way around, you can cover many museums and other attractions on foot.
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Museum of Chicken Art in Seoul
One of the strangest museums I’ve come across so far in Seoul is the Museum of Chicken Art. I don’t doubt that Koreans appreciate chickens – especially as part of BBQ, but apparently the animal plays a huge role in Korean traditions.
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How to register for the JLPT in Seoul
I’ve written the JLPT (Japanese Language Proficiency Test) four times in a foreign country – two times in Germany and two times in Japan – and this December I’m going to write it in another foreign country, Korea.
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Seoul Drum Festival 2011: Drum Cat, Nanta & more
For some reasons, major festivals seem to be concentrated on very few weekends in Seoul. This weekend, there was the Seoul Drum Festival, the YonKo Games and some expat festival.
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YonKo Friendship Games – Yonsei vs. Korea University
There is the legendary rivalry between Oxford and Cambridge which is well known even outside of Britain. In Korea there is a similar rivalry between Yonsei and Korea University, both are in the top-3 of Korean universities.
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KLI Festival at Yonsei University
The festival to be at Yonsei is of course Akaraka, but when you study at the Korean Language Institute, you will find out that Akaraka is hardly mentioned by the teachers at all.
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SeoulTube 2011
This is a meetup where people doing YouTube videos in Korea come together, but everybody’s welcome. There is a Facebook group where dates for the next SeoulTube are announced.
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Achasan Night Hiking in Seoul
Koreans love hiking and in Seoul there are many opportunities to hike small mountains. There is even a mountain at Yonsei campus! I found lots of hiking meet-ups both on Facebook and meetup.com, much more than in Tokyo.
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Bibap – Bibimbap, the Musical
Jump and Nanta are two successful performances you can enjoy without knowing any Korean. When my school was offering free tickets for Bibap, of course I said yes.
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Taekwondo at Namsangol Hanok
Namsangol Hanok Village is not only a place where you can see traditional Korean houses: You can experience traditional games, tea, a marriage ceremony and Taekwondo.
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