Weekend in Daegu/Busan

i meant to post this on Monday.  whoops.  i guess i have been busy and not updating like i said i would.  oh well.  better late than never.   Thankfully I have Sophia (another TaLK Scholar) to remind me to update.

Last Saturday I went to Daegu to meet a friend and go to and English club.  Basically it is a place where native Koreans who want to practice English can speak with foreigners about various topics.  afterwards we all went to dinner and talked more and just had a good time.


After dinner I, and my friends Hamid and Cathleen, took the KTX (the fast train line) to Busan.

Busan is the second largest city in Korea, and it is really famous for Haeundae Beach.  There, like Seoul, many people speak English.  Anyway we got in at around midnight  then went to noraebang (karaoke) for about an hour then wandered around downtown for a bit and ate some street food before retiring to the jjimjilbang we decided to stay at.

I don't think i have blogged about it yet [and i will do so more comprehensively later (probably)], but a jjimjilbang is a public bathhouse.  they are open 24 hours and you can stay there for 12 hours so many people sleep there since it is much cheaper than getting a hotel/motel room.

The next day we wandered around Busan then went to the Busan International Film Festival, which is the largest film festival in Korea.  I also found out that the second largest one is in Jeonju (the city I live in).

The movie we watched was called The Rambler Rides Again.  It is a Japanese movie, and the title probably sounds better in Japanese.  the entire movie had both English and Korean subtitles.  It was pretty much a western movie.  It had a cowboy, a saloon, a coal mine, and even Indians.  I very much enjoyed the movie. 

but yeah i had a lot of fun.  it was kind of an awesome weekend.  i want to do more things like that while i am here in Korea~