Insadong and Yongsan

This past Sunday, we woke up to a beautiful sunny day, so we decided to head into Seoul again. We were thrilled to be out in the sunshine after a week of bad, wintery weather. We decided to take the bus, instead of the Subway for speed and to see the scenery. 

Last weekend we had gone to Seoul with people who knew where we were going, but we figured that it couldnt be too difficult to find our way again. When the bus came, we got on it, sure that it was the right number. Long story short, it was not actually the correct bus and we went all the way into a different part of Seoul and halfway back to Bundang before we realized what was happening. An hour later, after our long detour, we made it to Insadong.

Insadong is a popular place for tourists. It's an entire street of little shops and street vendors. In the past, it had many antiques and different kinds of art. Now, it is mainly geared towards tourists, with manufactured mask replicas and many many clothing vendors.  Since we are most definitely tourists, we did not mind. We ate from street vendors and took random pictures, as always.

After Insadong, we headed to Yongsan, which has a 6 floor Electronics Mall, aka Clayton's heaven. We actually weren't that impressed. It didn't have as many cool gadgets and gismos as we were expecting. We did get a wireless router and walk through a sea of camera and cell phone salesmen.  At the end of the day, we bought some gimbap ( korean sushi, sans the fish), and fried chicken, and headed home on the subway.

Standing guard.

A Korean Starbucks!

I love taking pictures of buildings!

A hat shop!

Clayton as the Tin Man

Insadong!

Yongsan subway station... It was huge! We actually had to ask for directions to the right platform.

Yongsan by night.