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sillywilly · Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Canada.

Ive got 2 and a half months before my contract is up and I dont know if I will ever be back. Does anybody have any suggestions abotu what I should do.. some really neato Korean stuff ot stuff in Korea?

I have doe and seen a lot.. But I know there is more. Hopefully people will tell em things I can do over a weekend. No more holidays left.

denz · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 6:44 am Post subject: yesh well

have you tried kimchi yet?

denz

sillywilly · Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Canada.

ha! Yes.. I used to hate it and now I love it. I dont know if I have the time to grow to love anything else.. but go ahead and suggest stuff

denz · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 6:55 am Post subject: yesh well

well then, i'm out of ideas.

denz

posco's trumpet · Joined: 20 Apr 2003 Location: Beneath the Underdog

NQP · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

I always put off a tour of the DMZ because of drunken wekends. Always figured I would get to it later. I regret not having seen that. Also never got to the Korean folk village.

Zyzyfer · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 8:03 pm Post subject:

Have you been to any of the numerous random islands off the coast of Korea, Jejudo excluded?

The Great Wall of Whiner · Joined: 24 Jan 2003 Location: Middle Land

sillywilly wrote:

mokpochica · Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Location: Ann Arbor, MI

-Boseong Green Tea Field: http://www.greenteatour.com/
http://english.tour2korea.com/home/spotlights_read.asp?oid=364&strpage=1
-Haeinsa Temple and the Tripitaka Koreana
-Hahoe Folk Village
http://www.lifeinkorea.com/Travel2/nkyongsang/36

I think those were the neatest things I did and saw outside of Seoul. In Seoul, the Palace Museum near Kyongbokgung is really cool if it is still open and I'm really happy I had a chance to go and see 'Nanta' and a performance at the Jeongdong Theater.

Check out this page for festival ideas because those are often good things to do on the weekend with fun stuff to see:
http://english.tour2korea.com/events/main.asp

Igen_Weir · Joined: 09 Feb 2003

Go and see NANTA.

Blue Flower · Posted: Thu May 01, 2003 6:29 am Post subject:

NANTA - what is that? sounds interesting.

lawyertood · Posted: Thu May 01, 2003 6:36 pm Post subject:

NANTA is good. It is a percussion performance using common items found in the kitchen for instruments. There is usually a storyline to the performance, but it is the music that is kickin'. Look for the theater near Seodaemun.

Igen_Weir · Joined: 09 Feb 2003

http://www.nanta.co.kr:8080/about_e/board_view.jsp?bnum=1&go=1

look here and see for yourself.

sillywilly · Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Canada.

Thanks for the ideas people

mack the knife · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: standing right behind you...

have you visited girum (miari texas) yet? it's in the northern part of seoul. it's the aircraft carrier of whorehouses. i don't know how to describe it any other way. you must see this place simply to tell your friends:

"i went to this shady area of town where you walk along these dark, narrow alleyways inhabited by wrinkled, furtive ajumas who sit on stools and direct you towards their "wares". if you follow the ajumas boney finger, it will lead you to a small room with 4 or so girls who will be dressed as a)hookers b)brides c)flight attendants..."