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[Iago]

Hi.

I have been in Seoul for over a year now and know of a couple of interesting spots but nothing really cool.

I show a lot of people around Seoul and want to know of some cool little places that are off the tourist map.

I would like to know of something other than insadong, the palaces, or hongdae etc.

What are your favourite places in Seoul/favourite things to do? Even cool places within the above stated areas.

If its a secret - show me some time and ill keep it secret

Thanks

[greedy_bones]

The area around the Hyehwa station is pretty cool. There are some good restaurants and bars as well as a really strange robot museum.

I also recommend a restaurant in insadong whose name escapes me at the moment. It's an old style place that only serves roasted fish and makkoli. As you start walking down the main insadong strip, head down the first alley, and it's in there somewhere.

[Robot_Teacher]

greedy_bones Thank you very kamsahamnida. Robot museum. That was not in my data base of robot knowledge. I've gotta go see that one. Maybe one day when I'm way outmoded, I too will be on display in a museum.


Little known places in Seoul? Just pop up out of unfamiliar almost no name subway stations no one ever mentions or talks about, gaze around, and walk into what looks peculiar. I wish I had more time to do that. Who knows, you might meet a new artificial life form and then encounter many things parallel with things familiar to you, but very different as if you're on planet K. Often what you see is not what it appears to be so taking a closer look is what the planet K masters do.

[superacidjax]

There's allegedly a Toilet Museum in Ilsan.

[Bibbitybop]

[Iago]

Thabks
I have been meaning to explore the Hyehwa area a bit more.
Found a place where you can get 똥튀김 (deep fried shit). When i saw the sign on the door i had to try it. Not too bad.

Too bad you cant say where these jems are. Oh well, there has to be a couple of really cool spots here.

Actually I heard recently of an abandoned theme park somewhere in the Seoul area...

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[madoka]

Although in Insadong, the Toto store/museum is easy to miss. At street level is this small little store filled with old Korean and American toys. Across the street from the store on the second floor is the "museum" part. You pay 1,000 won to enter and look at all sorts of wacky, kitsch items. Everything from old GI Joe toys to Star Wars action figures to Happy Meal toys to Mazinger and Pokemon. They also have a bunch of old Korean items from the 60s and up. It's like the cluttered garage of some Korean packrat nerd.

Anybody else know what I'm talking about?

[Fishead soup]

[prideofidaho]

^
yep, it's pretty cool. (the old toy/comic book/ whatever museum in insadong)

You can buy really cheeky postcards.

[loggerhead007]

Ole' Stompers on top of hooker hill in Itaewon. Rock and blues + cool people.

[thrylos]

[Caro wack]

Try PIMAKOL behind YMCA in Chongno, adjacent to Insa. Good
drinking spot more than 100 years old. Try the tubu kimche (tofu).
Watch the girls on Saturday afternoon vomitting.