KOREA DAY 1 IN SEOUL: TONGIN MARKET, GINSENG CHICKEN & N SEOUL TOWER

Annyeonghaseyo!

Warm welcome to my very first post on my Korea trip!

I will be sharing my first day in Korea.

Where I live, do, go and eat? Wanna know?

Keep on reading!

DAY 1 - SATURDAY - 19.11.2016

9:30AM - On the way to the airport

Collected pocket wifi, check in luggage & have a meal at MCD

1:00AM - Departure

After a long journey in the flight...

8:20AM - Safely landed at Incheon Airport, South Korea

At around 9:00AM ++ - Done check out

Bought AREX ticket direct to Seoul Station

10:00AM - Reached Seoul Station & quickly went to buy KTX ticket to Busan

Walked to rented hostel

Around 11:00AM - Check in & chill

12:00AM - Took subway from Seoul Stn to Gyeongbokgung Stn

Lunch at Tosokchon Ginseng Chicken

Walked all the way and saw Tongin Market

Walked along in Tongin Market

At around 4:30PM - Took subway to Dongguk University Stn

Walked to bus stop & took bus to N Seoul Tower

BBQ for dinner

Back to hostel!

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BREAK IT DOWN

After you done your check out at the airport, follow the sign where it wrote
"AIRPORT RAILROAD" if you wanna take the AREX to Seoul Stn.
It would be going down a floor to level 1.
There will be counter for buying the AREX ticket.
#I have a group of 4 & we got each person for 6,000 won
You will get receipt and also ticket!

#Make sure to keep your receipt for seat number & time reference

#Please be there early as the train might reached earlier than the time given

#The duration from Incheon Airport to Seoul Stn is around 43 minutes, you can have a nap or rest and just enjoy the view outside! :)

REACHED SEOUL STATION

We going to Busan on tomorrow and we haven't buy our tickets *risky*

So, after we reached Seoul Stn, we quickly went up to where you can take KTX & other kind of subway/train.

We bought our tickets for 59,800 won per way per person.

#Worry about should I book online or how can I get my tickets?

For me, I don't really understand how the online booking works. So, we decided to just buy at the counter at Seoul Station.

Actually, I don't think we need to worry about it because every hour will have a train to Busan and you can freely select your time go and back as well.

And if you know when you are going back to Seoul, buy return tickets as well.

It's more convenient & easy. #

**this tips credit to Kak Wati**

After getting our Busan tickets, finding the way to our hostel is making us headache.

I booked this stay through Airbnb - I will write a post on my stay in Korea!

My hostel is just walking distance from Seoul Stn.

Going round for like 20-30 minutes (or probably more than that), finally we found the right way!

I can say this, the house host is not that friendly & helpful.

Okay, it's alright, I will write about this in my hostel post (got a lot of things to share)

We taking our luggage up to second floor all by ourselves.

Check in & rest for awhile.

GOING OUT TO GYEONGBOKGUNG STATION

Our actual planning was going to Gwanghwamun Square, Gyeongbokgung & Bukchon Hanok Village but too bad on Saturday they have rally exactly around those area.

We did went there and polices everywhere O.O

We decided to dropped by the very famous ginseng chicken in town, Tosokchon Samgyetang Chicken!