Repatriate Me!

On Friday I went for a walk through the underground blackmarket area in Shinchon Seoul. It’s been a long time since I’ve been there, despite it being only a ten minute walk from home. I went back Friday evening for a walking tour through Shinchon and also stopped for Chicken Galbi.

Shinchon is a very very popular place for younger Koreans, and expats, to hang out. It’s walking distance to three universities and only 2 subway stops from a third (which actually has it’s own thriving nightclub scene). In any case I’ve lived nearby Shinchon for 13 years and figured a little video memories would be nice.

At this point I rarely head into Shinchon in the evening, I’m more of a morning coffee shop kind of guy or else I’ll be there around lunch time for some food. But night time here is a good time for video.

Yesterday, I also spent some time modifying the templates to this site to better accommodate video. At the end of November last year, I bought an HD Camcorder (Canon Vixia HG20) and am planning on shooting lots of video around Seoul and Korea.

Shinchon Black Market

A walk through the underground black market area across from Hyundai department store. This place has really changed a lot since the late 90s when it was much busier and crowded.

Chicken Galbi

Can't go wrong with chicken galbi for dinner. I ate at one of the most popular chicken galbi restaurant chains in Korea. They actually have three branches in shinchon. I went to the best location there.

Shincon Tour

A walking tour through Shinchon including a walk past all the love motels which you can rent by the hour.

I know I haven’t exactly been posting a lot lately. Anyhow once this snow disappears, I’ll be back to regular posting. I’m actually planning on going to the Canadian Embassy web site and finding out more about the visa process. Probably download all the forms and go through them and then call the embassy if I have any questions about them.

On an unrelated note. This morning it was snowing the second heaviest I’ve seen it in Seoul in my 13 winters. It may not be a Canadian winter, but it was definitely good for my kids to play in.

Happy New Year everyone.

Tons of Snow

Last week on Sunday we went to the Hilton Hotel Seoul to see the Christmas train that they have set up every year. It’s really large and quite impressive. My son, just shy of 4, really loved it a lot.

Christmas Train

We went to the Seoul Hilton

Last night I took the family out to see Christmas lights. In Korea this is a little different than in Canada as there are very few individual homes and no one decorates the outside of their house. Instead, here, businesses and the city, will put on light displays. We went to the city center and took a lot of pictures.

I also shot some video on my new HD camcorder (Canon Vixia HG20) which once it’s been edited I’ll upload and share here. I’m planning on adding a video blog section to show different areas around the city. That’ll be a little delayed due to being very busy with end of the semester work and client work at the moment.

updating to include a video now (full size HD version here.)

Enjoy the video below.

Seoul Christmas

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