The New Zealand Wine Festival Seoul Grand Hyatt Hotel 13 May 2012
The NZ Wine festival was held in the sunny gardens of the Hyatt Grand Hotel in Seoul city on Sunday the 13th of May 2012. A strong crowd of Koreans and New Zealanders came to enjoy a little taste from home in regard to both the wine and sausages. A tasty and delicious spread was put out for the attendees with a good old barbecue and even some hokey pokey ice cream to boot! A DJ played all the hits from New Zealand whilst the evening sun warmed the atmosphere.
The event was organized by Sunny Myung from The Kiwi Chamber (The New Zealand Chamber of Commerce in Korea). you can visit the website here:
www.kiwichamber.com
Here are a few photos and a Youtube slideshow:
Comic World Seoul 109
Earlier on the morning of Sunday May 13th 2012 I went to aT Center to view this months Comic and Cosplay event. I received and email from one of my readers asking about information regarding cosplay in Seoul. I was vaguely aware that there was a cosplay meeting every so often somewhere in Seoul so I decided to find out more about it.
So if you are interested in going to one of these events check out this website for Comic World and it will tell you when the next event is on: (Comic World 110 - the next event as I post this - is at SETEC which is at Hangnyeoul Station Orange Line; Line number 3).
http://www.comicw.co.kr/service/main.html
The aT Center was very easy to find to my surprise! I had some old information about catching a bus from Yangjae station 3 stops or so toward the flower market but now there is an easier way! Just go to Gungnam station and get the DX line (the new red line) to Yangjae Citizens Forest stop and exit there (if I remember right its exit 4 but there should be signs to aT Center). The DX line is the ghost train (or thats what I like to call it) because there is no driver!
Check out the pictures and Slideshow:
The Ghost Train!!!!
Ink Bomb Seoul 2012
I was going to post about this event next week but... as per its name it was a bomb or rather a total and complete failure. I am not sure who was to blame for this but just as the event should have been taking off or getting started (Saturday afternoon was the beginning of the big shows) it was shut down by the Korean Police. Around 5pm on Saturday the 19th of May 2012 the police showed up and the tattoo artists were scurrying around boxing up all their gear and getting out of the event hall as quickly as possible. I would assume this was because only a very few places in Korea have licences to tattoo otherwise tattooing is illegal and maybe that's why the event was shut down. I saw a few people outside with newly drawn tattoos on their body, the question is were they even finished or just partly started before things went sour.
So a highly disappointing event and I am being quite harsh about it but you would expect that all laws and arrangements would have been agreed to before the event was started. Here is what the event looked like from my point of view:
South Korea is still a very conservative country and anything like this event should have all the I's dotted and all the t's crossed before going ahead. Unlike western or English speaking countries tattoo art and body piercing is very unusual and is still looked down upon by a majority of the population here. So I am not at all surprised that there was zero tolerance shown by the police in this case.
Well that all the news for this week!
Remember this weekend is the start of BIMOS the Busan International Motor Show held at BEXCO in Busan City (24 May - 3 June). The event is shared between Seoul and Busan each city having the event for one year and this year its Busan's turn. Here is the event info:
http://eng.busanmotorshow.co.kr/main.html
If you are wondering what this event is all about you can check out my post on last years Seoul Motor Show:
http://rawrkorea.blogspot.com/2011/04/seoul-motor-show-2011.html
I might see you there :)
Well until next week have a fantastic time! :)
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