Today I spent several hours walking through Seoul and exploring (I'm able to do this because I don't have many hours right now). I headed west on a street that I hadn't gone to far down. I was only probably 10-15 blocks or so from my apartment before I got to a hill. At the top of the hill I was shocked to see that I could see the hillsides surrounding Seoul very easily, and only another 15-20 blocks in a different direction was a large hill covered in trees. There were some huge skyscrapers as well that were pretty isolated. I kept heading west and was hungry so I stopped at a restaurant that was cheap and had pictures with prices under them, meaning it'd be simple to order. It was in between lunch and dinner, so not a peak time for restaurants, and no one was eating there. I should've listened to the advice I received: if a restaurant is crowded, it must be good. If not, than it sucks. Well, I had the worst meal I've had here yet. I'm not sure if it was the quality of the restaurant or just a dish I don't like, but it was hard to finish. It was a soup of either liver or morcillo (I don't know the word in English for this, it's common in Argentina, it's coagulated pig's blood or something like that). Anyways, not good.
Another hilarious thing about Korean culture is how they advertise for sales. Often times they'll blare loud music outside of the store and there'll be a girl with a microphone talking about the products, I'm guessing. Sometimes, they'll have girls dancing too. I was walking home and an appliance store was having a sale, and they had huge speakers blaring music you could hear from blocks away, a girl talking into a microphone, and another girl dancing in skimpy clothes, which must've sucked because it was freezing outside.
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