Discovering Seoul ~ Nat'l Folk Museum & a "Rainy" Night

October 13, Friday

Friday the 13th was the day when 2 of our friends arrived from Manila. Their flight's arrival was in the afternoon. So the whole morning until mid afternoon we were touring the National Folk Museum and took the City Tour Bus to go around Seoul (we know where to find the stop this time).

See the sky? Beautiful autumn blue sky greeted us
when we went out and waited for the city tour bus
to arrive in front Changdeokgung Palace.

This time since we already know where to get the bus for the city tour, it only took us a few minutes to arrive at the bus stop. Btw, remember the very long walk after we had our very late dinner? We discovered on our way to the bus stop that we could have taken 5 minutes walks instead of another 20-30 minutes. Sigh...anyway we're new here...we are tourists ^^

Won't give much details anymore on the following photos. First set is at National Folk Museum of Korea.









One of the kid (the one in red jacket and doing the v-sign) in the above photo approached us on our way out of the museum. She said "hi" and "hello" to us. Actually, these kids have been looking at us since we arrived the building of the museum. Rica said that they've been waiting until we got out of the museum. The cute kid asked where we are from and from there she talked to us a lot in English since she's half korean half american but grew up in Korea.

During our stay in S Korea, group of kids and high school especially on tour, would say hi or hello to us. We think that they're fascinated with English speaking Asians and would like to really try to converse with us in English. Since we all love kids, we would talk to them (even with boys and high school kids). They're so cute and would really say whatever English words they know. The most popular phrases are hi and hello. Others would say, "how are you?", "welcome", "pretty", "sorry" ^^ they're really cute.

Before we left the museum, we asked them to pose with us for a souvenir photo and their teacher (we guess) the guy on the extreme right on the phone, even posed with us.

After the tour at the National Folk Museum, we then went to Deoksugung.










After this palace tour we than took the bus and tour for about 2 hrs Seoul without alighting the bus anymore since we have to meet our friends arriving in a few hours at the guesthouse for a "Rainy" night.

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Rain's Comeback Concert at Jamsil Olympics Stadium

When we arrived at SeBP, our friends were not there yet. So we just decided to rest and prepare for the upcoming concert of Rain.

After a few hours Leah and Bambie arrived. Few more hours we then left the guesthouse took the subway to Jamsil station.

Bambie and I inside the train.

The area designated for Cloud Korea and Japan. This area was
jampacked during the concert. I learned that the Japanese
had a special package tour for this event.

The mini concert of Rain was grand and beautiful. A new group, Paran, was his front act. It was my first time seeing Rain do a live performance. But my friends (all of them) are Rain fans, have seen Rain in Bangkok and Hong Kong.

Rain is sexy and good. He's now sporting a new hair, which is short and that he looks much younger in its. His production number were full of great effects. It's like watching a movie. He sang songs from his new album and few songs from his Rainy Day album. The concert lasted for 1 hour.

After the concert and having our usual souvenir photo in front of the stadium, a report introduced himself to us and said that he's from An An magazine. He wanted to interview us for his article about Rain. Geez, who wouldn't want to be interviewed? He asked us about our opinion on the concert, how we got to know Rain, what if he does a concert in our country and a few more which i forgot. After the interview we even gave him dried mangoes from our country.^^

Below are some candid shots of the interview.


After that very short interview we then went to KFC to meet our Fil-Korean friend, Jen and a Korean friend Raina (who used to work with BYJ. She's a Rain fan now but she still supports him. According to her BYJ is a real nice person).

It was a cold Friday the 13th. Not much activities but it was fun. The night ended having late dinner once again with ice cream. (",(",)