Third day
This day was our rest day, after two days of intense seightseeing. We just walked around and did some shopping
We passed by a performance rehearsal, these guys are dancing Korean traditional dance
Scared me, all of sudden started to play drums right next to me!
Drum battle
This is also one of the traditional dances, he moving his head so the long white ribbon is flies around in circles
We could have stayed an waited for an hour to see the real performance when they wear the traditional clothes too, but we had more things we wanted to do. First, a visit to the first cathedral in Korea. On the way we saw many nuns belonging to this cathedral (I didn't take pictures of them though)
And now finally, time for a lunch. And not just any lunch, but a buffe place! This is why we have been eating at convenience stores latetly ;)
Different kinds of salads (western, lotus and bambu, sweet pumkin and mushroom salad) and sushi
Moving on to the Chinese fried meat (pork, chicken and shrimp), vegetable dishes like eggplant (in the middle) and western pasta (garlic spagetthi and carbonara)
So full... but I still had to try a little bit of the Korean meat (kalbi and samgyopsal) and Japanese tempura fried fish. The fish was so delicious!
I was so full by now, but I still had to try out the desserts! Blueberry ice cream, mocha cake, chocolate cookie, green tea cake, brownie, lemon cake, roll cake, raspberry cheese cake and cream puff. And on top of that, coffee. Perfect!
Second dessert - the Korean way. Patbingsu, or shaved ice with red breans, fruit and mochi (rice cake).
After this much food, we had to take a good walk to digest. One interesting thing about Korea, is that they are very, very concerned with beauty and skin products. So there are many stores selling skin products, and quite often guys are the model. In western countries it's usually only women in the commercials. This could be for two reasons, first of all, I'm sure many girls like buying products from the store their favorite actor or singer is promoting, and secondly, Korean guys are buying most beauty products in the world among men. This, however, doesn't mean everyone on the street are wearing make up, most of the buyers are probably the huge amount of actors and idols in the Korean entertainment industry. Still, many guys even on the street does care for their skin a bit at least.
While guys also caring about their skin could be positive, the Koreans are really too obsessed with beauty. Plastic surgery is in fact very common, and many girls (and some boys) are dreaming of creating a new face like this one on the picture. Instead of teaching the young people to accept and learn how to love themselves, they are constantly being told by media, TV, commercials and even people around if they are pretty or not so pretty. Doing a double eyelid surgery (creating a wrinkle right above the eye so it looks more western) is not even concidered a plastic surgery. It's just something almost every girl does. It's even not unusual that the parents pay for it. Even worse is that when it comes to changing the face, everyone wants to go for the same popular look, creating the word "Medical twins" because they all look the same.
This is a really interesting building, although I don't find it beautiful, it's is remarkable
So what about the shopping I mentioned before that we did? Well, we followed the trend of Korean (and Chinese too) couples and bought couple t-shirts! There weren't many that came in the right size for both of us, Issac even had to get the XL size! He has medium in American stores... Anyway, we found a funny one, with spelling mistakes too. What do you think? ;)
Hehe
Cute socks
And nice bags, one for him and one for me
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