Post Interview 2

After the interview. I got a tour of downtown SEOUL!

It's pretty sad. We drove by...and this is what Nam Dae Moon looks like now. Some weird psycho grandpa burnt our history down & now this is the remodeling stage. Really, I feel like Korea keeps throwing away their own culture and history. Even on the streets you can tell how "americanized" "europeanized" they want to be. But they say... Koreans wants to re-discover their own things.

우리의 국보. 불타버린 국보 남대문.

보면서 생각했다: 슬프다. 안타깝다.

우리에 역사 하나가 없어져버렸다는게.

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Woo Jung Nak Ji

우정낚지

IT WAS SO GOOD.

SPICY. TEARS. DROOL. 6CUPS OF WATER

맵다. 무지 맵다. 무서울정도로.

Back to the ol' days.

Old fashioned Korean Style Tea House.

Extremely unique and extremely pretty.

인사동에 있는 정통 한국 찻집.

정말 너무 예뼜다. 한국와서 이런 문화를 하나 하나씩 담아간다.

바쁘고 시끄러운 서울을 벗어나.. 조용히 삼촌 이랑 엄마랑.

My mom.

Always trying to make me look ugly in pictures.

How rude.

미쿡이나 한국이나. 자기 얼굴 작게 나올려고한는 사람들.

엄마는 자기 얼굴 크게 나온다고 나 를 뒤에서 민다.

어 이 없 음.

미쿡에서도 그런 친구들 있다!

I didn't get a chance to actually go around and take pictures of downtown Seoul because it was very windy and very cold! I thought my face was going to fall off. Oddly, it was sunny all day.

Once it gets warmer and I actually have the leisure to go downtown and enjoy myself I'll make sure ill update. (:

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Too much of KOREA?

Here's a taste of America I got.

I discovered this in between a Karoke and a Kimbap Shop.

홀로 서있는 양식. 주위에는 너무나도 한국적인 노래방. 김밥집.

참....나.

Interview.

BEFORE

My mother. Trying to look her best.

Goal: To look like a woman with LOTS of money. (:

최고로 우와하게. 최고로 예쁘게. 최고로 파워있게.

The day I went to go meet my boss @ Hilton. Was I expecting to meet his boss? NO.
This is before I knew... before I got nervous.... before I was sweating & trembling.

무슨 일이있을거란것도 모른채. 좋아라~ 하는 나.



AFTER



The 21st floor with all the ELITES.

Because she followed me to my interview.

엄마가 쫌(?) 대접 받은날. 21층에서 남산타워까지 봤다.

After the sweating. After the interrogations with the boss & the boss's boss.

Can you tell? I'm relaxed.

The view.

서울. 남산.

First(s).

My first meal in my motherland!

Got off the plane at 5:30 pm.
Drove 30 min & this is where my uncle took me.
So happy. A ALL tofu place. Sounds weird? Yes.
BUT extremely delicous. Tofu dishes... please don't think it's nasty.

It was beautifully delicious.

나의 모국. 한국!

한국에 도착하자마자 처음으로 먹은 음식.

삼촌이 데려간곳은 어떤 시골집??? 처럼 생긴 두부정식. 처음에는 속으로 이게뭔가..... ( -__- ) . 하지만 첫숫가락에 입에댄순간.. 아무말없이 너무 맛있게 먹었다! 쌩유배리마치 삼촌!

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First OFFICIAL day.

A date with my mom.
Really I think she was more excited than I was.

(running over people.. running in front of cars... going into WRONG restaurants... yelling in my ears.)

But yet she says shes not.

We went to myungdong. Just because. My madre wanted to go eat this kal gook su that she ate when she lived in Korea. We find the place. That says "myungdong kal gook su". RIGHT? So she thinks that's the place. We go in and she complains. Why?

Cause it tasted completely like ramyun! WHY? Cause it was the WRONG PLACE. -_-
The place she was looking for is called "Myungdong Gyoza" not "Myungdong kal gook su".

.............

We found Myungdong Gyoza... right infront of this ramyun tastin' noodle.

Oh mother.

명동칼국수 먹으로 갔다가.. 라면 수프만 먹고왔다. 엄마는 한국왔다는데 별로 신나지않다고 한다 (부디치고.. 차오나 않오나 보지도않고.. 사람들 사이에서 빙글 빙글 돌고.. 혼자 앞서다 엉뚱한데 글거가고).

내 생각: 엄마는 들떠있다. -_-

명동칼국수 먹어야된단고. 꼭 먹어야된다고.

하. 지. 만.

잘못찾아갔다.... "명동칼국수" 란 음식점이 아니라.

"명동교자" 라는곳이다.

라면수프맛나는 칼국수 몽땅 다 먹고.....

나가보니..

.명 동 교 자.

바로앞에있다!

아이고... 어머니.

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First cup of coffee

+

Gelato

Caffe Pascucci.
(Please don't ask me what that means)
Cup of Americano = 3,800won = $3.80US
Cup of Citrus Gelato = 4,200 = $4.20US

EXCUSE ME?

엄마랑 처음로간 카페. 이젠 절대안간다.
커피 한잔 = 3,800
젤랏토 한컵 = 4,200
뭐 이런게 다있니?!

그래도... 참 즐거운 신간이였다. 엄마랑 친구처럼 지내는게 난 좋다!

My Last Week.

Post detox meal @ Zoopa. We did it & that's all it matters.

That cake/brownie? Whatever it was.. it was BOMB.

그날 정말 많이먹었다. 2접시? 그다음에도 지영이네서 생선버거와 아이스크림과 버섯튀김도 먹었다. 참... 내 소중한 살.. 다 빠졌구만. 지금도 어디서 꿀. 꿀. 소리가 들리네....?

Night in Seattle. My beautiful home.

Before.. I never noticed it.. but being far away from it and knowing that my time there is done.. makes me realize how beautiful Seattle really is. There's so much life. So much emotions. I miss it.


참 아름다운 도시 씨애틀. 옛날애는 몰랐다 하지만 멀리 떠나고 보니... 씨애틀이란는 도시는 참 분위기있는 도시인거같아.... 한국에 와있어도 나의 집은 항상 여기있다는걸.. 이제와서 늦긴다.