Korean Travelogue
From last Thursday to Sunday, I went to South Korea to play a circle, and came back to report what I saw and heard, but this is not a travel strategy at all, because I am especially grateful to Qianqian, so that I have no scruples to play aimlessly, and the sense of accomplishment of the tour is very good, I can't thank him enough. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
First impression of Korea. The first impression of Korea is that it is clean, yes, there is no garbage everywhere at the airport, and the roads are clean, the greenery around Incheon Airport is very good, and you can also experience this when you walk on the street, and, according to my friend's pointing, I found that the tires of cars in Seoul are all black, what does this mean? This means that there is not much dust and there is not much garbage on the road. Clean things not only include transportation facilities, but also a variety of scenic spots, and commercial blocks, only Myeongdong where the surrounding environment of the roadside stalls is slightly worse, but it is also within the acceptable range, strange to say, there are very few garbage cans in South Korea, I took the leaflet sent by the Korean aunt, looked for a long time and did not find the garbage can, so I had to take it in my hand, all the way home, classmates said that in South Korea garbage classification is not done well, will be punished. There is a small stream in the center of Seoul, and when I pass by the duty-free shop on the way, it is actually a gurgling and clear stream, I don't know how it is in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, but in terms of West Lake, only the stream that flows into West Lake has this clear quality, and the water quality in West Lake seems to be good in China, but it is not good either.
Ornament. If you think that if you come to South Korea, you can live like a Korean drama, then I advise you not to come, there is a saying that happiness is like living in a news network...... When I came to South Korea to see it, probably many people in China also want to live in Korean dramas elegantly and richly. All the way from Incheon Airport to Seoul, the roadside is like the Gangnam hills, and when you get to the city, you are even more disappointed, there are not many high-rise buildings, and they are not high, the buildings look like some days, the road is not wide enough, and the so-called most lively business district Myeongdong, a few small alleys, Yintai can kill any shopping mall in seconds.
I heard a statement before, that is, Koreans who look (or) good have entered the entertainment industry, I didn't believe this point of view before, and I didn't know it after I arrived in South Korea, there are very few handsome men and women on the street, and the Korean face of high school students and junior high school students (small eyes and big round faces) is very common, but they give people a very good feeling, it seems that there is an illusion that they see all handsome men and beautiful women, why is this??
Naturally, it is the outstanding beauty and apparel industry in South Korea, the women I have seen, regardless of age, tall, short, fat and thin, are very strict about their image management, older women may not care about clothing, but everyone is very insistent on makeup, I have not seen women who do not wear makeup, more than once in the subway I have seen women in make-up, but also in the barbecue restaurant with a lot of smoke to see beautiful waiters, and I am very strange that their makeup looks very comfortable, is there a kind of Korean nude makeup?
The young boys also wear makeup, but they probably only wear sunscreen or BB cream (the police on the street also wear BB cream), and with my skills, I can see this at most, but I don't know if there are other things. And in the case of boys, their clothes fit well, their temperament is good, office workers wear well-fitting suits and shirts, most of the girls wear skirts, and they are not afraid of the cold at all, you must know that in this season of South Korea, the night is very cold. What I want to say is that Koreans, ordinary Koreans, may not be good-looking, but after a grooming and dressing up, they can become polite and handsome men and women with outstanding temperament. Of course, there are a lot of plastic surgery, and the good-looking ones are basically made up, and the flight attendants on Asiana Airlines are super beautiful, but they are neat at first glance.
I heard that Korean TV dramas have to be colored in the later stage, and the filming locations are also in the most upscale Jiangnan rich area, so I give everyone a kind of "Wow, Koreans are so good-looking!" Korea is so high-end". This country is really a little girl who can dress up carefully. I think that if Chinese also love beauty to this extent, then China's GDP is estimated to rise by a few tenths of a point.
Kimchi Country. When I came to Korea, I really experienced the power of Kimchi, the first delicacy in Korea, any store, including fried chicken restaurant, has free kimchi to offer, in addition to ordinary Chinese cabbage and radish, there are all kinds of it, I was surprised to eat mulberry leaf kimchi at the meat and bone shop, OMG, isn't this something that silkworm babies eat?
In all fairness, kimchi is really good, especially when eating greasy fried chicken or barbecue, eating refreshing pickled radish is very greasy, but other kimchi, hehe, I don't like to eat it very much, especially when I eat it every day, this thing can really scrape oil, a few days later, the stomach is empty, and this thing is raw.
The other is spicy, of course kimchi is spicy, and Korean things basically have chili peppers, (I often think about the question: how did Koreans live before chili peppers were introduced to Asia.) I didn't feel very comfortable in my stomach for a few days in Korea, and I must have been troubled by spicy cabbage.
Most of the Korean food in the country has changed its flavor and improved to suit the Chinese, and the barbecue and fried chicken are still very good, but they are slightly greasy, but fortunately there are all-purpose kimchi, and as for what fried rice to eat, I won't say anything about Shin Ramen...... The roadside stalls in Myeongdong looked quite clean, and I wanted to taste the freshly squeezed pomegranate juice, but my classmates resolutely stopped me.
Etiquette. Koreans are very polite, as can be seen from the two experiences I had when I took the bus to the airport. I ignored him at first, thinking it was similar to a person who borrowed money or asked for directions in China, but my classmate who was proficient in Korean told me that he was a staff member of the airport bus, in addition to directing us to the right waiting point, he also said that there was no need to worry about the luggage, he would put our luggage on the bus, and then we got on the bus empty-handed, before getting on the bus, I also nodded slightly to him, and he quickly bowed in return. In comparison, the stiff aunt on the airport bus from Shanghai South Railway Station to Pudong Airport who was impatient and asked me for directions was a world of difference.
You can see people saluting each other everywhere on the road, and the importance of etiquette is so much that I think it's a bit hypocritical. The state of etiquette, indeed, is right. Of course, it is conceivable that this kind of thing wastes time and energy.
Persistence and change in Korean culture. If it weren't for the signboards on the road and the Korean they spoke, I would have thought that I would still be in the country, and the monuments everywhere are Chinese, including in Gyeongbokgung Palace, all the plaques are written in Chinese characters, of course, Seoul used to be called Seoul, Dahanmun and Gwanghwamun always make me laugh, no wonder Koreans want to learn to abolish Chinese characters like Lee Kuan Yew abolished Chinese, the best way to rule is not guns, but words, which is why King Sejong, who is sitting in front of Gyeongbokgung Palace Square, is so respected by Koreans, It was under his auspices that the Korean language was invented.
Gyeongbokgung Palace and the Forbidden City are almost identical, I have never been to Gyeongbokgung Palace, but I know where several important palaces are, the main hall of the upper dynasty, the king's bedroom, the queen's bedroom, in turn on the central axis, the concubine's small residence is next door to the queen's bedroom, you can get to it a few steps away, and I am the queen, and it is inevitable to be jealous. To the west is a pond and garden, which is similar to Zhongnanhai, but several sizes smaller. In the Folklore Museum, Emperor Zhaolie and General Zhang Fei are amazed, as well as those ubiquitous Chinese charactersγγγγγγγ Such a scene can't help but make people sigh out where and when they are here.
Chinese culture is everywhere, but it is also plausible, and any cultural subject can always reflect its own characteristics, rather than blindly following the rules, absorbing advanced culture, and reshaping its own national culture. I went to see a show on Friday afternoon, and it was basically Hanbok, Korean music, and Korean, and I have to say that although it seems that Chinese characters are everywhere, this country still maintains its own characteristics very well, and everyone knows about the national pride of the Korean nation. There is a handover ceremony of guards at the entrance of Deoksugung Palace, there is a hanbok tour at the airport, and the guards at the gate of Gyeongbokgung Palace are also traditional hanbok.
Seoul occupied by China.
If you reject us, it means destruction.
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Why does it feel like home in Korea? On the plane to South Korea, all the people were Chinese, and on the street, we could hear Chinese at any time, and my classmates and I were laughing at "The aunt in front bought a rice cooker, so tired and not tired." As a result, the aunt turned her head angrily and glared at us...... To see the Nanshan Tower, a few girls directly asked for directions in Chinese, and the streets of Myeongdong not only heard Mandarin, but also heard various local dialects of China, which is not China, where is it, you come and tell me!
I went to the duty-free shop to bring things to my friends, and as soon as I opened the elevator, I was stunned, so many bustling people, rubbing shoulders, sure it wasn't a domestic vegetable market? Are you sure it's not a Singles' Day sale? It's a duty-free shop! Please, you can save some money and buy it! You know, these things are expensive! Auntie, you bought a snakeskin bag of cosmetics to make trouble, and what kind of trouble do you want to make trouble when the Chinese queue at the cash register is hundreds of meters long? The salesperson who can speak Mandarin is very busy, and the clerk who can't speak can only stand aside and watch the play, as long as you walk by, you can hear the non-standard hello, what do you need? As long as you walk over, even if he doesn't understand what you want, it doesn't matter, as long as you show him the product pictures in your phone, he can find it for you accurately! Even if the cashier doesn't say anything else, this sentence must be excellent: "Hello customer, is it cash or credit card?" β
UnionPay cards are 95% off.
The ninth floor of Lotte Duty Free is a chaotic cosmetics floor, all of which are Chinese. On the tenth floor, there were only a little fewer people in the luxury store here, we entered the LV store, a female clerk who had obviously had a nose cut came forward to entertain us, a male clerk saw a couple enter the store, and quickly asked what was needed in Chinese, the male customer was unhappy to speak in Korean, the clerk quickly changed the pronunciation, hahaha in Gyeongbokgung Palace is almost all Chinese, there is an uncle who passed by me and muttered loudly: "Oh my mother, where does the emperor of Korea live in this small place?" This house is not as good as our farm! βγ
If you want to experience the majesty of the Celestial Empire, go to the duty-free shops, and even more so go to Myeongdong (in addition to UnionPay cards, Alipay also occupies Seoul...... Along the way, there will be one or two clerks standing at the door of each store, waving or bowing cordially: "Hello, come in and take a look, our store has cheap cosmetics and clothes." "This can be used in Chinese, everyone knows that Chinese money is stupid, do not work hard to make money here in the Chinese, it is a fool, but there are still a lot of fools, Hong Kong does not let mainlanders travel, okay, they all come to South Korea."
I probably spent 20,000 yuan in South Korea to buy various items, not including daily expenses, in fact, you have arrived in a place where you are in the position of God, in the face of the smiles of those waiters, can you not wave your hand and buy in a big way, cheap, good service attitude. I thought I was carrying too much, but it turned out that I was still too young, and the large bags and small bags at the airport duty-free shop were really scary.
I haven't used cash before, but since the UnionPay card can be swiped, the cash in RMB should also be fine.
Living in a city where you can't afford to eat fruit is stressful. After eating barbecue on Saturday night, I deliberately went to the supermarket to shop, how is the price in South Korea, how is everyone's spending power, can not go to the place that is lifted by the Chinese to observe, but to check in the daily life of ordinary Koreans, so I especially went to the supermarket to see the price, I have seen other things, basically there is no big difference, to the fresh area, see the price of watermelon, I was really shocked.
A watermelon weighs about 5 catties, I haven't measured it, but it's just a visual inspection, and the price is 12,000 won, which is converted into 70 yuan. Bananas are on sale, 2 yuan a piece, yes, two pieces a piece, this is still a special price, a bag of small melons, about four or five looks, but also more than fifty. We saw a family of three choose a watermelon and a bag of small melons, my classmate said that this is considered a middle class in South Korea, and then saw a clerk accidentally break a watermelon, oh Mona ~ 70 yuan is gone, it is really distressing. So don't expect any after-dinner fruit when you eat in Korea, just eat kimchi. There was an old news that it was said that it was a special price of 5,000 Chinese cabbage, and a person could only buy two to make the supermarket crazy robbery, but it turned out to be true, and the Chinese cabbage in the supermarket cost 7,000 won, about 40 yuan. Beef and pork are particularly expensive, the pork belly in the barbecue restaurant is all foreign, and the local pork is at least three times more expensive, not to mention beef. It's Mamma Mia.
I didn't expect paper towels to be very expensive, a big bag of ordinary toilet paper is 100 yuan, about 12 pieces, the kind of roll.
The classmates said that the prices in Seoul are very expensive, I don't know how many times more expensive than Gyeonggi Province on the side, but in our Beijing, in addition to the housing prices, everything else is very cheap.
A barbecue for two people is about 300 yuan, which is acceptable, I went to the supermarket, hehe, I don't know how much lychee and mango are sold in South Korea, I dare not look alike.
Fragmented. The politeness of the Chinese really needs to pay attention to a little, don't be ashamed when you go abroad, the uncle next door to go abroad has been the annoying stewardess of Smecta Smecta, with a pig brother, can you be reserved? Yin and Yang are so angry that they have to learn other people's languages, which is very annoying, so it's better to have a snack when you go abroad.
Seoul is really too close to the 38th parallel, and looking at the map, I'm really afraid that Kim Sam Pang will hit the missile when he comes.
Koreans drink ice water entirely.
Plastic surgery is too common in South Korea, and in Myeongdong, I saw a boy with gauze all over his nose and a mask around his mouth.
I also saw a certain Dafa booth outside Guanghua Gate, but no one cared.
It is incredible that the last emperor actually called Gaozong, Gaozong is the husband of Queen Mingcheng, think about the heroes of Shang Gaozong Wuding, Tang Gaozong Li Zhi, and Qing Gaozong Qianlong Emperor, this last monarch Joseon Gaozong is really inexplicable. Moreover, the son of King Sejong is called Sejo...... Only the founding emperor can be called the ancestor...... It's really messy.
Gaozong's father, Xingxuan Dayuanjun, used the power of the whole country to restore Gyeongbokgung Palace, which is exactly the same as the Empress Dowager Cixi's construction of the Summer Palace.
The dragon robe worn by the king of Joseon was red, not bright yellow, because Joseon was previously a vassal state of China and could not wear yellow.
The Chinese embassy occupies a huge area in Myeongdong, where the land is the most expensive, and it is rumored that Yuan Shikai bought it when he was the emperor in North Korea, a terrible capitalist society, so until now, this land is owned by China. (doubtful)
Every king of the Li family in North Korea can shoot dozens of TV series, we have four masters in China who are very busy, and they are very busy Yan Shanjun, at this point, there are so many Chinese emperors, we can't finish filming, and costume films have a long way to go.
Skincare products made in Korea are very cheap to buy in duty-free shops in Korea, and skincare products from European and American brands are cheaper to buy in Pudong.
When you see a girl wearing a beautiful hanbok, you can come forward and ask to take a photo together.
Korean is actually a bit like a local dialect in China, and some words are pronounced very similar to Mandarin.
Smecta has no meaning, similar to a full stop in Chinese, which means the end of a sentence.
Taxis are 10,000 times cleaner than in the country.
The night view on the Namsan Tower is huge.
You must speak softly in Korea, I am louder, and outside the Dahan Gate of Deoksugung Palace, two Korean aunts were startled by my loud voice.
Deoksugung Daehanmun Gate afternoon guard change performances are at 2 o'clock and 3:30 o'clock.
There is generally WiFi, and the password will be posted in the obvious location of the store.
You can get a coupon from the Shilla Duty Free Shop on the airport bus, and if you buy more than one at the airport duty-free shop on the same day, you can go to the counter and get a free coupon of 10,000 won.
You can get a tax refund at the airport if you buy something at a duty-free shop, but it doesn't matter, all the volunteers who can speak Chinese will help you.
As long as you have money in your bag, go to Korea, even if you don't know Korean.
I didn't go to South Korea, I didn't know that China's influence was so great, but when I went to South Korea, I found that we still have a lot to improve.
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