Korea is for lovers

On Tuesday, I wandered around a bit as Jieun was attending an LSAT class. It is always liberating to act like you know where you are going in a country, even if you may have no clue. I immediately noticed the sheer mass of cafes along the street sides, one after another. There are the independently owned cafes, as well as a good amount of Coffee Bean, Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts. I wonder how they all stay in business, but I also noticed the rather large amount of young couples sitting in cafes with their iced lattes, gazing into each others eyes.

Later in the evening, Jieun, a good friend of Jieun's (Sejin) and I took a cable car up to the N Seoul Tower in Namsam. The tower is located on top of a mountain in the middle of Seoul and from the top you can see the entire metropolitan sprawl of Seoul. We got there as the sun was setting, so a daytime view quickly transformed into a sparkling nighttime panoramic. How beautiful! Apparently, Namsam is also a popular date spot and the railings around the tower are festooned with locks inscribed with lovers' names. The locks are aptly named "Locks of love."











(Pictured: Me, Jieun, Sejin - Sejin will be in Beijing for the year.. yay!





For dinner, we ate fried pork cutlet, Japanese style, that you could dip in a mustard/steak/tobasco sauce. Miso soup, rice, and cabbage with a peanut sauce were served alongside. Yum! Speaking of such.. I am smelling something delicious in the kitchen... I think Mrs. Paik is cooking and boy, the smell is making my mouth water. Better go for now!