Seoul:

• Art
  • ✔ Leeum Samsung Museum of Art (eat at Passion 5 Cafe across main road!!)
  • National Museum of Contemporary Art
  • National Museum of Korea
  • ✔ Korean War Memorial Museum
  • Seoul Museum of History
  • National Folk Museum of Korea
• Seoul Fortress
• Bukhansan Mountain -outside city hike with city views
• ✔ Cheonggyecheon --public garden in highline style thru city center also near Dongdaemun Malls (wall of hope)
• ✔ DMZ line ($80 arrange with USO)
• ✔ Itaewon -military area of seoul where my mom and dad lived (head right, across street/south of hamilton hotel)
• ✔ Jongno food maze below Insa Dong
• Namsan Park – Located in the center of Seoul. Seoul Tower. Bring lock for gate.
• Palaces Walk:
  • ✔ Bukchon Samcheon-dong Hanok Village --traditional korean houses walk from Gyeongbokgung Palace to Changdeogung Palace (walk north-west to Samcheong-dong shopping area then down Bukchon --loved this)
  • ✔ Changdeokgung Palace --esp gardens behind palace
  • ✔ Gyeongbok-gung Palace, Yulgukno (subway Gyeongbokgung or Gwanghwamun). This is Seoul's grandest Joseon Dynasty-era palace. 9AM-5PM daily except Tu. Fun soldiers you can pose with outside
• Shows: Battle B Boy, Nanta, Jump, Sachoom
• ✔ Noryangjin Fish Market --near river front (incredible)
• Ganeul World Cup Park --world cup area
• Jimjilbangs

Shopping Areas:

• ✔ COEX Mall --kimchi museum, arcades, megabox theater --go north for galleria mall (not great for shopping)
• ✔ Dongdaemun Gate (Great Eastern Gate) market --massive malls, markets (Doota Maxtyle & Migliore Mall pretty good but a little forever 21-ish)
• ✔ Ewha Women's University shopping area (starts at university gate, exits 3&3)
• ✔ Cheongdam-dong (metro line 7, Cheongdam, exit 9) --lame! But Galleria dept store West okay
• Gangnam Underground Shopping area --with subway
• ✔ Sinsadong Garosu-gil Road --shops and eat, a few trendy shops
• Gwangjang Market --old school market w/lots of character
• ✔ Hongik University --art school, discos, shops, restaurants (head toward university & go to right area) --saturday art market outside university
• ✔ Insa-Dong --alley of galleries and crafts (samziegil galleria arcade)
• ✔ Myeong-dong shopping --like shinjuku in japan --just okay
• ✔ Namdaemun --largest traditional street market in Korea.
• ✔ Bukchon Village area --great

Notes:

• USO tours of Korea offered at the base
• aunt: line 3 (orange/red) toward Daehwa, exit Juyeop exit NW
• seoul tour bus
• gimpo airport about 1 hour commute from icon station
• dive restaurant. lady gives adam half a bottle of soda for his drink.
• people can be pushy
• train stations play marching music when your train is approaching
• drunk businessmen on trains (imitating them is fun)

Jeju Island

• taxi driver: Gim Gyu Chang 064-756-1956/010-4696-1956
• Museums
  • ✔ LoveLand (On the road between Jeju City and Seogwipo)
  • ✔ Trick Art Museum
  • Jeju Teddy Bear Museum
  • Chocolate
  • Vintage Autos
  • Sori Edison Museum
  • ✔ Kimyoung Maze --San16 Gimyong-ri Ggujwa-up, Jeju-si (About 500 m down the road from the Manjanggul lava-tube cave.)
  • Soingook Mini World or Miniature Theme Park
  • ✔ Glass Castle (Inner western portion of the island)
• ✔ Mysterious Road --cars roll up hill
• ✔ Lotte Hotel --mom wanted me to see
• ✔ Yongduam – Yeomiji Botanic Garden – Jeju Folk Village – Magic Road
• ✔ Cheonjiyeon Waterfall
• ✔ Manjang-gul cave / LAVA TUBE Cave
• ✔ Seongsan Ilchubong, Seongsan --this is the famous round almost-volcano-island you'll see pictures of everywhere in Jeju.
• Other:
  • ✔ drive the coast
  • spirited garden
  • visit the Art Sculpture park. This park located near Mt. Sanbang, discover over 160 different sculptures
  • Iho Beach, (about 7 km east of Jeju-City). A beach, whose main feature is two types of sand, one dark gray, one yellow which produces brilliant structural effects in the water.
  • ✔ Ancient lava estuary is a part of the area designated by UNESCO as a Biosphere Reserve --lava formations of many interesting shapes and sizes and volcanic black sand on the seaside
  • ✔ "Lonely Standing Rock" with many stories to tell (Korean names of the trail: Oedolgae, Tombae Nangol - Wedolgae). See here a natural pool famous amoung the locals as "fairy pool":)
  • "Olle" path
  • Andok Valley is acknowledged to be the most beautiful valley on Jeju Island.
  • Jeolmul Forest
  • Museum of Contemporary Art
  • Seriworld Go Carts
  • Green tea plantations
  • Hado-ri Bird Sanctuary
• Info: 1 hour flight from Seoul, ticket RT $150, rental car (must have international drivers license, hired taxi 150k won for 8 hours), visa w/d only