Seoul 2016 - Ehwa Womans University

Finally back to update my Korea trip last year, lol! Missing Korea so much by looking all the photos taken in this trip! Speaking of which, the tripod is really our good friend in this trip hahaha! We went to Ehwa Womans University in the early morning to avoid the crowd and we were so so so glad that we made the right decision. No photobombers! Anyway, just a little background of Ehwa Womans University. It was the first educational institute for women in Korea, founded by Mary F. Scranton, an American missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1886. The Ehwa Campus Complex is also Korea's largest underground campus, how cool is that! Ehwa Womans University is also one of the popular shopping areas in Seoul where you can find affordable and trendy fashions around the streets. There's also a lot of street food, cafes and restaurants around that area, definitely a place that you should put on your itinerary if you are visiting Seoul!

Ehwa Womans University
52, Ewhayeodae-gil, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul

Seoul 2016 - Common Ground

Common Ground is the Korea's first pop-up store built with shipping containers, it's made up of 200 large containers and can be transformed into different structures or moving into other places. With such interesting shopping places with bright blue shipping containers and various independently owned brands housing inside, it's not hard to believe that Common Ground is one of the hipster places in Seoul. The price of their stuff seems to be a bit steep but for something unique and different, it's a good place to check out the local brands in Korea. Besides shopping, you can also find different restaurants and cafes at Common Ground, they even have some food trucks there but we didn't try any of the food there except Dore Dore..lol! Overall a really interesting place to check out!

Common Ground

200, Achasan-ro, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul, Korea

02-467-2747

Operating Hour: 11am-10pm

Direction: Konkuk University Station -exit 6

Seoul 2016 - Nami Island

We went to Nami Island on our day 3 in Seoul and i think we travelled the most that day! Nami Island is about 63km from Seoul and it's famous for its scenery with the beautiful tree lined roads~  To get to Nami Island, we took the subway to Cheongnyangni Station (you can transfer at Yongsan station too) then transfer to ITX train to Gapyeong Station. The journey for ITX is around 45 mins and it's a faster route to get to Gapyeong station. Remember to purchase the ITX ticket in advance so that you won't end up like us..standing throughout the whole journey..lol! After we reached Gapyeong station, we took the shuttle bus to Nami Island where you will pass by a few stops such as Petite France, The Garden of Morning Calm and so on. Alternatively, you can choose to zipline to Nami Island as well (whuttt)..haha obviously this option is out because the weather is so cold!!

We went straight to the Nami Island wharf to take the ferry. The crowd to get to Nami Island is no joke! The queue was insanely long but luckily it moved quite fast. I guess we went at the peak season and timing, everywhere is flooded with tourists and locals..it was so damn hard to take a picture without anyone photobombing you..haha! We took A LOT of time to take pictures there because we have to make our trip worthwhile lol!! To be honest, Nami Island is not as pretty as what I expected but it's definitely worth to go if you are visiting Seoul.


Nami Island
1, Namisum-gil, Namsan-myeon, Chuncheon-si, Gangwon-do
Direction: take subway to Yongsan or Cheongnyangni Station > ITX to Gapyeong > Shuttle bus/zipline to Nami Island.