청계천 -Cheonggyecheon Stream

Seoul Lantern Festival

 

Hello!^^

 

 

Each November in Korea happens something very intresting and beautiful at the same time, is called: Seoul Lantern Festival at 청계천 - Cheonggyecheon Stream in Jongro.

 

Along the stream u will see tons of impressive and huge lightened up lanterns which have the goal of depicting the history of Korea.

Usually there are more than 20.000 lanterns..and this event gather lots of people around the world.

 

The event lasts from: 4th November to 20th November; the starting point is Cheonggye Plaza.

To get to Cheonggye Plaza take line 5 to Gwanghwamun station and leave exit 5.

It is also within walking distance from City Hall station and other stations in the area.

 

It's such good event...enjoy it!^^ have fun^^))

 

see u to the next post!

 

 

 

Here is the main and official website of the event..obviously is written in Korean:

 

 

http://www.cheonggyecheon.or.kr/

 

 

 

 

 

 

For those who want to have a preview of the festival, here is a video of it:

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn6QMhRZLfc

 

 

 

Haru-

해피 할로윈~~! Happy Halloween~^^

안녕하세요!!~

오늘은 할로윈 or 호박~`

Today is Halloween..and as u may know, in Korea Halloween is not considered as a real celebration,

but as time goes by it became a consumistic celebration~ usually for kids.

 In this post u can find some tips where to spend Halloween while u are in Korea, since there are tons

of events that u may join xD

Firstly, at Lotte World u can find some special dance party during

this day, and usually even for

other celebrations Lotte offers a wide range of leisure activities xD

Secondly, but not least important is spending 호박 at Everland in Yongin, around 1hour far from

Seoul, but it-s bigger than Lotte and u can surely have more fun.

Another creepy activity u can do is *not for Halloween night though* join to the Seoul Zombie Walk

that is held on 26th October, it starts from Boraemae Park...and all people can dress up or make up as

much scary as possible ㅎㅎㅎㅎ

Or even clubs in Korea offer some Halloween nights~


Here some of the link that u can check!~

www.lotteworld.com

www.everland.com/




Have nice & scary Halloween night!



See u~


Haru

DDP ~동대문 디자인플라자

DongDaemun Design Plaza

안녕하세요~~^8^

잘 지내?~

Today I will write about the Dongdaemun Design Plaza...I visited there after a long walk 

along the Han River...in the middle of the walk...suddently...started to rain very hard. So,me 

and 친구 took subway to rush in Dongdaemun.

The typical traditional market appears ...and you can-t imagine how crowded it was >><<

Eventually, as soon as I reached the building, I could see a huge spaceship ㅋㅋㅋㅋ of a 

circular shape, from outside I could hear some classic music coming from inside. Soon I 

realized that music came from the undeground storey of the buiding.

It really makes people speachless....~~It was created in March 2014 by the architect Zaha 

Hadid and its aim is that of meeting hall, seminar hall, design exibithions etc...

Actually, I like it so much..but the only thing that I disliked is that amount of *grey*, all the 

plaza and the buildings around are too many in small place.. ㅠ*ㅠ

After visiting the inside of the DDP where there was a furniture exibithion, we went 

dinner~~

~~all photos have my copyright, to use ask please.

안녕 to the next post~

Haru ~하루

Shin Ramyun

Hello^^ Let's talk about food ^=^

 

The most common Korean students food and ...not only is the ramyun!

They eat is wether they are in office, in University, or at home during nightime if

they feel hungry.

Although it's not the healthiest food, and though is very kaloric (140kcal) I

decided to buy

a cup of this kind of Ramyun for trying and even because after some time spent

in there I begun starting to behave like them kkkk



Btw...I tried the Shin Ramyun, very famous, but also so spicy! In the cup you

can find some wooden chopsticks, dehydrated veggies, beef chips, togheter with

a red powder,  all in a small wrap.

 

Be careful if you can't stand spicy food..just add some not add the whole powder!! U may regret!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here are the steps for the preparation:

 

 

-open the cup without removing the label totally,

 

-boil the water,

 

 

-pour the water inside the cup and try to close it with its label again,

 

 

- wait 3minutes

 

 

 

 

 

Ready to eat ^^))

고기구이 or Korean BBQ

Let's talk about the Korean BBQ, or 고기구이^^

I find it extremely tasty and it's the prefect way to share it with friends while

talking and laughing or drinking.

For dinner I went in a typical BBQ restaurant in Gangnam with my friend, I

wanted to eat  Mul-naengmyeon (Cold noodles with chilled broth and ice)

and my friend wanted to eat BBQ..so we chose to go to this restaurant, which

cook both BBQ and Naengmyon.

The served us lots of 고기 (meat) such as: 갈비살 ( galbisal= beef), 삼겹살

(samgyupsal = pork belly)

etc...together with the typical and usual side dishes (반찬)..such as : 밥,

(cooked rice), guk (soup), gochujang , kimchi, mushrooms, shrimps,

soy,  and finally the Noodles

we ordered.

This is how the restaurant looks for inside, it's Always full so we had to wait a

bit before sitting inside. Those kind of "seats" have a special use hahah guess

what??

They are made for putting bags inside.

Almost all korean restaurants that serve grilled meat has a grill place at the

center of the table.

And...after the meat is cooked.. you will need to use a scissor for cutting it into

small pieces, prepare your chopsticks and...

 

 

 

 

voilà...ready to eat^^

Haru

Pieces of Korea ^^) Korean night^^

Talking about culture, and since just in some days will be the kick off of an

important cultural festival

in Canada, which I saw^^ It's called "Folklorama". This is the biggest and long

lasting festival ever!

It's a nice way for foreigners that live in Canada to join and to "remember" their

origins.

When the time of Folklorama comes, Canadians go crazy, litterally!! hahahahah

All people go the see the pavillions till late night.

There are lots of pavillions, different countries pavillions, and festivals (that

usually are dances, exibithions, typical dishes ext..) from 6pm till 1am.

I went there with my cousins, and I had fun^^)) bcos I could watch the

countries festival that I was

interested the most.

I saw many many pavillions such as: Korean, Japanese, American, Irish,

Ucranian, Italian, Chinese, Punjab, Philipino extext..

But! As you imagine I want to focus on the Korean pavillion.


In this pavillion, there was Korean typical dishes, Hangul writing, some

paintings, all under the music of BigBang "Tonight" xD

Eventually, there was the final show that consisted in the "Fans Dance", very

intresting. It was really impressive, hope to see it one day in Korea.

 

 

 

 

KOREAN DANCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Byeee see you to the next post!

 

 

*Haru*

 

Today's Special Moment are Tomorrow's Memories - EXO

This time last summer I was doing my internship, for Arirang TV (아리랑TV), well-
 
known broadcasting station in Seoul (서울).
 
Aww when I was asked to join as guests in their TV program where a member of
 
EXO, was the MC.
 

*guess what? I didn't know that the MC would have been Kris* 

 

 
 
 
I was such happy, bcos it was my 1st experience in the TV field, 1st
 
time meeting a Kpop Idol, even though I'm not those of crazy Kpop fans. Last
 
but not least, I was extremely excited going on air^^
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Anyway, firstly I had to be there pretty early, taking the VIP GUEST PASS, go

inside the buildingfor taking some photos for the Magazine, which I work for.

*It was so funny to see the faces of those fans that couldn't go in, and were waiting outside kkkk*

 

 

 



 
 Here are some shoots:

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
and then was the time to assist to the NEVERENDING reharsals and

recordings ç____ç

 

After some exibitions of BigStar with their comeback, B2ST, Tasty..etx...

Here some links -->https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt0qSfFMW2g

Tasty - Mamama

 

 

Kris arrived! and I was told that I had to sit next to him bcos he was going to

 

make me small interview (already planned before the recording).

 

Everything was done such late at night...ZzzzZ

 

 

 

 OMG..I couldn't believe it ^0^0^0^0^ and my happiness was  at the highest level

 

when then next day searching on Utube, where there already were videos of that

 

moment online O.O

 
 Here is the video --> such embarassing >3<
 

 

Hope you didn't get bored, and enjoy^^

 

Stay tuned^^

 

Chu chu - Haru **

 

안녕하세요! 가자^^ let's go^^)

 

 

안녕하세요!!  뭐해??

 

 

I'm new in this blog, I will write my own experience since, after some trips to

Korea I will move to Seoul (서울) for doing postgraduate & living too ((^^))

There will be pieces of past experience and brand new ones that I will keep

updated ^^))

I've started this passion for Korea and its culture bcos of my best friend ç__ç so,

at first I thought it was smth that it would have faded away soon, but!!

I was wrong TT TT at this point, I've decided to make up my mind.





I haven't introduced myself yet, so it's time to do it briefly.

22years old University girl.

 

Born in Italy but lived among USA, Korea.

 

Lively, shy, cute, loud, many thinkings.

 

Love so much Korean culture (not a stalker fan of kpop).

 

Starbucks, ATWOSOME PLACE and chocopie lover.

 

Internship for Arirang TV (아리랑 TV).

 

 

 

Fave dramas :  별에서 온 그대 ( my love came from the stars)

 

시크릿 가든(secret garden)

                   

아름다운 그대에게 (to the beautiful you)

 

 

 

Here u go...I'm HARU - 하루 !!