A Day In Seoul

Welcome back! If you read my previous post (A weekend in Yokohama: Day Three), you will already know that after returning from Japan, my aunt and I spent a day in Seoul, South Korea! We went to several really fun and interesting places, so continue reading to hear about them!

The first thing that we did in the morning was walk back to the airport to see if we could exchange my Japanese coins for won. Unfortunately, they do not do coin exchanges, so I am stuck with $40 worth of Japanese coins 😅 I am most likely heading back to Japan in the spring, though, so hopefully I can use all of them then.

After attempting to exchange coins, we headed to the International House of Pancakes for breakfast. I got giant pigs in a blanket, which was sausage wrapped in pancakes, that I then covered in syrup. My aunt got a normal breakfast plate (eggs, sausage, etc). I forgot to take pictures though… sorry 😅

After breakfast, we headed up the street to a four-story Line store! For those of you that don’t know what Line is, it is a texting app, much like Kakaotalk or WhatsApp. Line has an adorable set of cartoon characters to represent their app, and that is what was inside this store. They also sold a large amount of BT21 Merch, which is BTS cartoon characters. This store was adorable from top to bottom!

Overall, the store was adorable! The merchandise itself was pretty pricey, but even if you don’t buy anything, I really recommend visiting! There’s so much more to see than what I posted here!

After the line store, we head over to the Starfield Coex Mall, which is a HUGE underground mall. They have so many stores, from furniture to clothing to books, tons of restaurants and cafes, an aquarium, a movie theater, and even an airport check in! The even had this huge library:

I didn’t get any more pictures than that, but if you want to do shopping in Seoul, I think that this mall would be a great place to go. It’s a little confusing to find, since you have to walk into a building and then take escalators underground and you’re not sure where you’re going, but it is really cool.

After walking across the entire mall, we came up on the other side, right in behind the SMTOWN Coexatrium. For those that don’t know what SM Entertainment is, it is the biggest Entertainment company in South Korea. I love their music artists, such as NCT, EXO, f(x), Super Junior, and more! Visiting this Store had always been on my bucket list for when I traveled to South Korea, and I’m so glad I got to go!

I absolutely LOVED visiting this place. I didn’t get a chance to do everything, since there are certain parts of the building that you have to pay to see, but, I did buy a decent amount of things, including a souvenir for my sister and for my mom (don’t worry mom, it’s not K-pop, it was from the snack section). I also bought my first ever K-Pop Album! It was “We Are Superhuman” by NCT 127. I was looking for the “We Boom” Album by NCT Dream, but they were all sold out. All that being said, I would love to go again!

After the Coexatrium, we headed over to Dongdaemun plaza for some shopping and sightseeing before we had to head back to Daejeon. We went in a KakaoTalk store, which was much like the Line store, but with the Kakao Characters instead.

We also went through a huge shopping mall (where everything was expensive, so we window-shopped), a street full of vendors selling clothes, and a little indoor shopping center, which had a K-Pop store where I bought my second K-Pop album of the day: “We Boom” by NCT Dream! They had it in stock at this store and I was so happy 😂

After all the fun exploring and shopping in Dongdaemun, it was time to head back home to Daejeon. I had an incredible time in Seoul, and cannot wait for the next chance to go! It is such an incredible place, and very different from Techno Valley, Daejeon, where I live. I highly recommend visiting Seoul, and just South Korea in general.

That wraps up my Seoul post! I will hopefully have more content coming up soon, so stay tuned for my next post!