Common Ground: Pop-up Container Shopping Mall

Do you know about ‘Container Park’? It’s a plan to renovate derelict sites in cities with recycled container boxes. As a helpful way of city designing, container parks in London and Las Vegas have been a local landmark for each city. This unique container park, ‘Common Ground’, also opened in Seoul a month ago. Like […]

Love Land on Jeju Island

On Jeju Island there is a wide assortment of activities and attractions, some simple and some quite strange. One of the strange and surprising attractions Jeju has to offer is Love Land. It is an art park themed around eroticism. Love Land opened in 2004 and the main collaborators for the park were graduates of […]

Brunch in Seoul

  Some people go to church on Sunday mornings, but for others, Sunday is about a different tradition—Brunch! Brunch is one of the classiest meals of the week. Whether it is with family or friends it is always an event. Filled with tons of food and maybe even a mimosa (or two), so of course […]

Café Craze (part 4): Airplanes, Buses, and…Ddong?

Air Café Air Café is a cozy café that is perfect for any traveler! The café is stacked with travel books and maps, and makes for a perfect location to plan your next trip! The café menu is made like a passport, and offers special sets such as the Korean set or Singapore set. This […]

Day in Kobe, Japan

I had the wonderful opportunity to go on a trip to Japan for five days in the month of April, and of those five days, I spent a day in Kobe, Japan! Kobe is the sixth largest city in Japan and is famous for their “Kobe Beef”, the world-renown top-grade beef. Therefore, when we arrived […]

My Trip to Anmyeondo

  If you are looking for a place to enjoy sea and some unique spring festivals, I recommend (안면도) as a daytrip spot. I went there during my winter vacation and appreciated the scenery of the west coast’s winter. It would be also good to visit there in this spring or the upcoming summer vacation. Anmyeondo is […]

Muuido Island Adventure

With the weather warming up lately I wanted to find a beach in Korea. Off the coast of Incheon lies Muuido Island, a beautiful island filled with tall green mountains, multiple hiking trails, and beaches. Since I went there in May the beach was not filled with people but during the warmer months of summer many Koreans […]

Goryeosan: The Pink Mountain

Since it is springtime this week I decided to go to Pink Mountain. This mountain is very unique and is not very well known by many foreigners. The mountain is known for having some of the prettiest azalea flowers in all of Asia. It is also by the border of South Korea so you can […]