Day 13
Ilsan & Itaewon
On thursday I left to Ilsan to meet my friend Hyojoo. She lives there and I love Ilsan area :) It takes about an hour to go there from Seoul city center.You can access to Ilsan with line 3 (orange line) to Daehwa's direction and getting off at Jeongbalsan. And if I don't remember wrong, exit 1 and 3 will go straight to Ilsan's center direction (actually you're pretty much in the center when you come out of subway).
Using this station you can also access to Mbc's building which is close to subway station and there are recordings of music core for example.
I met Hyojoo at subway station 1pm. We went to post office first because I had a card I wanted to send to Finland :P Oh, about post in Korea; if you're planning on sending cards, best place to buy them are museums or then Insadong. Elsewhere is pretty hard to find any cards to send for your relatives and friends. And post boxes are reeeeally hard to find so I recommend you go directly to post office. They mostly don't speak english in post offices but it's enough when you give your card and say destination, they understand that at least. But because they don't understand english mostly, they always put the more expensive class (1st class) but it's still cheap for you if you're from western countries.
Then we headed to eat and OMG Hyojoo brought us to japanese restaurant where meals were absolutely delicious and art to the eye :D It was in Ilsan's mall, 2nd floor.
After shopping some cosmetics we bought coffee and started walking towards Ilsan lake park which is popular place to exercise and just hang out.
We stopped to one bench, drank our coffee and just talked. At one moment we were interrupted by mbc staff asking if they could interview us but we declined because we are not that good in front of camera. But it was funny how they came to us behind us and then looked at me and yelled "omg foreigner" xD they didn't expect that because at that time we were speaking in korean lol.
But I had nice day and view was sooo beautiful. It was sooo sunny at that day so excuse my photos that are looking a bit blurry.
After walking back to subway station and said goodbyes, I hopped to subway and went to Itaewon where I met Anniina and her friend at subway station. We had plans to go to eat and I was waiting like real korean meal and stuff because it was my last evening in Seoul. Anniina forgot to tell me that her friend wanted to eat vegetarian meal and they had looked up one specific restaurant to get from Itaewon. So I was clearly pissed off and they could see it... afterwards I was a bit sorry but when I get annoyed I can't hide it well. After Anniina and her friend ordered their meal, we went to nearest Taco Bell and I ordered my food from there lol. We all ate in there.
When we were talking suddenly at our side one girl came to us and was in finnish like "anteeks mut mä kuulin et puhuitte suomea niin oli pakko tulla juttelee" which is basically that she was saying she heard us speaking finnish and that's why she came to talk to us xD Then we just talked with her for awhile. She hadn't met finnish people in Korea except one from her university so she was a bit amazed.
After finishing our meals, we went to desserts in Baskin & Robbins (of course hehe). Then it started to get late and we headed up to Hyehwa.
Day 14 to 17
Because I was from friday to monday in my ex's house I won't tell about this part. But basically on friday morning I left to Buyeo and Anniina came to say goodbye at the morning.I left Korea monday morning. First I had to hop on to airport bus from Gongju at 5am. I was at airport 7.10am, I had to search my check-in desk while trying to drag my heavy luggage lol. I bumped to people couple times ^^;;;
Check-in opened 7.30am so it was ideal. But I had to pay 75€ for overweight. I knew it was overweight and at least about a year ago Finnair offered advance payment which was 50€ but now they have removed that... those greedy...
Anyway, I was in trouble because my luggage was actually too heavy so I had to move couple stuff to my backpack. Lucky I had left my backpack half empty so they fit there easy. I felt like it was more strict in security check because one employee came to me like "backpack can only be 8kg" and I was like yeah? It is... Because I knew mine was under. She was really arrogant and lifted my backpack but I was amused when I saw her face go "oh" and then she was like ok and left. I almost said "I told you so."
Security queue went kinda fast but passport check took time. And queue was reeeeeally long. But after half an hour I finally got through. Then I straight up headed to other side. In Incheon, they have two terminal sides and one is where you have to use this kind of mini train to get there. And you can't come back to other side anymore. It's kinda like in Helsinki-Vantaa has schengen and non-schengen sides in terminal 2.
Anyway, I arrived to that side and my gate was close to shops this time (usually gates to Helsinki end up being really far back). I shopped last souvenirs and then it was already time for boarding. Everything went smoothly and we got to leave on time.
My flight was a little late in Helsinki's side but not much, like 20 minutes only.
I have to say I experienced many new things on this trip even though it was my 4th time in Korea. There's still much to experience. I'm already planning to go to Korea again in next spring. Maybe March? I can't get enough of Korea :P
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My next update is coming maybe in 2 weeks? I have to bring my laptop to maintenance and as I have said before, I have tablet but it sucks. So I'm basically without internet at least a week. I don't know how long it will take to repair my laptop, it might be longer than 2 weeks. But I will be back as soon as I get my laptop back~
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