Wooh...last day of Korea Trip le. Time passes very fast...
We went outside of Hotel to have our breakfast and it started to snow in midst of our breakfast! Yeah! Second time lucky to catch the snow, and this time round is heavier. Even the guide also said that we are lucky that we still can see the snow once more before we left Korea, so worth the air ticket and tour package price. haha! Most of us hurried through our breakfast and went outside of the shop to experience the snow. Hehe.
After breakfast, we went to an Amethyst Factory, where it sells purple crystals jewellery and ornaments. Coz it is on high side of a price, think no one in my tour group buy things from there, so just see see and look look. haha! Next, we headed to a place for Kimchi Making Session. On our way to there, the tour guide was talking about their taxi. Did you know they had two types of taxi? One is white whereby the taxi fetches typical customers but there is another black in colour (about 50% more expensive than white one), which is exclusive to only drunken customers. lol. Why? Coz like I said before, the Koreans enjoy drinking which result in drink-drive siutation. To avoid such problem, these taxis are hired and typical position them around pubs areas, so as to fetch these drunken customers safely back home. These black-coloured taxi drivers need a lot of years of experiences and special handling methods to handle those drunken customers - which explains their fees. (Maybe singapore should have that for those party-goers. But think maintainence fee will be very high. ha!)
We finally arrived at the Kimichi Making Session class. It was an Korean, 40+ years old lady teaching us how to make delicious Kimichi. The chili has been premade by the staffs so we are only left to wrap the chilli in the vegetables. One has to stuff and spread ufficient amount of chilli on every leave and the remaining chilli has to be used to cover the thickest leave as well as the bottom stalk, so that the leaf water will not escape so easily. (after that should be put in the fridge for the vegetable to ferment) The one I done is also captured below (paiseh for the messiness. lol.). Ingredients are shown as below.
After the Kimichi making process, we went to the next section of the room to test fit some hanboks and took some photos. As the closet area is pretty small and squeezy, it was kind of a mad rush trying to exchange some of the clothes (so that one can try different styles.) But nevertheless, it was an interesting experience!
After that, we headed to a palace park, named as 进善门. Inside kept those special rooms for the riches and governors. One of the door entrance is named as 常乐门, 顾名思义 - means that once one cross over the platform, will always feel the happiness and bliss. According to the tour guide, if it is during autumn season, the place will be filled with brightful leaves and flowers. But since we came close to winter season, there's nothing much left for us to see. lol. But we managed to see the internal of the special rooms (not able to enter through though coz to avoid people damaging the things inside).
That park is our very last itinery and we set off to airport at about 2pm.
Goodbye Korea!
Overall it was a nice trip. Would recommend you to go if you like sightsee (especially after watching numerous drama serial). Hmmm, shopping wise is not that cheap as expected, so you probably would not be buying things you can buy in Singapore, unless very unique or you can't find in Singapore (we bought back some of their local food products). Food so far I tasted quite nice and quite healthy as well. Even their fried food isn't too oily and every meal got kimichi. Tasted a teeny bit of their wine, but er not my liking at all. haha! For ladies, toilet cleanliness is very important so in Korea is not a problem (quite close to Singapore system). Prefably for you to understand Korean so that you can easy communicate with them, coz only people at Seoul (and those educated or hotel staffs) will understand basic English. Basic Chinese some of them do know too, but rather limited. Even our tour guide told us that she specially go all the way to study in Beijing Uni for 6 years, to learn Mandarin. (where she claimed is not tat really good. She's modest la...I think not too bad le coz can even quote some 成语和谚语 at times , even better than some Chinese Singaporeans I know. ) So you may experience some language barrier over there.
After the trip, I do gain more insight and information about Korea - history (the guide during our coach journeys mentioned about war histories time to time), culture (from artifacts and structures), people (from the way they behave to their beliefs) and etc...Last but not least, got to make some friends from my tour group and seeing the snow twice!! The only problem is I didn't get to meet any of the Korean stars (but my guide is almost as pretty as those Korean stars....muahaha!)
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