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I'll be in Seoul 4th - 18th november, to visit with my brother, a friend and Starcraft.
I want to see a waterfall.
I want to see what would be defined as "real Korea", avoid the tourist parts as good as I can.
I want to see my broodwar heroes play and shake their hands.
I want to go to a PcBang.
I want to eat Korean Barbecue.
I want to not spend as little money as possible.
I want to dance.
I want to sing Karaoke.
I want to get to know Korean Litterature and write about it for school work.
I want to buy clothes or accessories from the fine hours when KT was called KT Fingerboom.
I want to loose on broodwar and see my opponent smile at me symphetically when he sees I'm not korean.
I want to use a love motel with a nice girl who's intelligent and attractive and not a part of the korean culture of adapting to please men.
I want to say weird things in Korean.
I want to leave Seoul and see nature.
I want to go to quality museums.
I want to watch Starcraft 2 tournaments and hold up awkward signs.
I want to experince awkward silences and laugh at humanity.
I want to find inspiration for a good short story.
I want to find Koreans who speak irony.
If anyone can help me with tips on any of these wants, I humbly ask of you to write something nice, in the best of worlds a personal experience on something you recommend.
I'll pay back in awkward stories as good as my memory can.
 
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definately subscribing to this one. if even half of these come true...especially the love motel part... will def be entertaining read. GL in ur journey
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Sounds like a great list. I hope you get even half of it accomplished  two weeks sounds like a long time now, but it will seem so much shorter after you return. GL HF
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For nature, go hiking on Bukhansan Mountain (although this is still a part of Seoul), take the subway to Gupabal Station (Line 3), then right when you exit there will be people that look like they're going hiking, so just get on the same bus as them and get off when they do. If you're willing to travel outside of Seoul, I recommend flying down to Jeju Island for a couple days, there's some really awesome waterfalls there.
I don't know where to get KT Fingerboom clothes, but if you want some cool, casual Korean fashion you absolutely need to go to the store located here called Pil/Pil+. A few shops down is a store called Condomania, which has an assortment of interesting/different condoms, such as flavored, glow in the dark, etc. which you'll be able to use in the love motels you want to visit.
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I want to use a love motel with a nice girl who's intelligent and attractive and not a part of the korean culture of adapting to please men.
intelligent? For a hookup, who cares? It's gonna be fucking tight tho. Tiny bodies and slim hips.
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On October 27 2012 11:17 Tommie wrote:
It's gonna be fucking tight tho. Tiny bodies and slim hips.
It's not like they're having a baby, if your appendage requires wide hips then you might wanna downsize.
Hooking up in a love hotel during a 2 week visit... gonna be tough. You'll need to start as soon as you land and aim for late 20's early 30's. Get some numbers at a club then transition into dates with girls as pseudo-tour guides and see where that takes you. Any younger and I doubt they'd be as easy or up for motels.
In terms of museums check out the Korean War museum near Yongsan. It's the best one I've seen here.
Bbq, karaoke, pc bangs, dancing, awkward signage and starcraft are no problem. You can do all that in a single night.
Fingerboom merchandise will take a miracle.
Avoid the DMZ/palaces/shrines, they're pretty boring and touristy.
Hyewha is a really cool area and doesn't have as many tourists as Hongdae/Insadong. That said, you should still go out clubbing in Hongdae a few times for the epic nightlife.
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If you can afford it, go to Jeju ~
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Allright. I'm heading for the airport in 30 minutes, which should mean that I'm in Seoul in like 20 hours unless I'm killed by Russian airplane technology on the way.
Thanks a lot for all the ideas! No plans are set in stone for us yet but the war museum, Bukhansan Mountains appeals a lot to me.
Thanks again! I'll give a little report when I return!
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I hope you brought warm clothes, it's cold these days
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