Bucheon Robot Park

A rather cold weekend this weekend! Friday also brought the first snow of the year to Seoul!

So off to visit Bucheon Robo Park. A museum of sorts dedicated to robots....?

It is quite small covering 3 levels. There are no fancy movie or anime robots there but there are a lot of real functioning robots.

Anyway if you are interested here is the official Link:

http://www.robopark.org/english/introduction/overview.asp

I have no idea what the next week brings! So until next time have a fantastic time! :)

YG Family Concert 2011 Big Bang and 2NE1 Special ! ! !

YG Family Concert 2011 was amazing! There was a HUGE line up including 2NE1 (my favorite girl group), Big Bang, Gummy, Seven, PSY and many more.

No camera's were allowed >:(

So I had to leave my big Canon camera behind...

But luckily for you and me I have my back up pocket Nikon camera :)

I didn't take any photo's because in such darkness and strange lighting and at a distance of more than a few feet the photos are not good...

However I did take 12 video's for you all to experience the concert ! ! ! :)

I only filmed Big Bang and 2NE1 and some GD and Top and that was at some risk because I was kindly told once to not use my camera and some people had theirs confiscated but I got some footage in the end :)

So here enjoy:

2NE1 ..... yay !!! :)

Big Bang..:

G Dragon and Top ... :

Wow so I hope you liked it! I picked up about 20 more youtube subscribers in just a few hours after posting so I am very happy right now :)

If you are in Korea and you get a chance to go to a K-pop concert like Big Bang or 2NE1 or another group I would recommend it definitely! Also keep a look out for Lotte Duty Free Family Concert that will probably be happening next year. I went earlier this year so you can also check out those Big Bang video's in my earlier blog posting or on my youtube account :) I will try and go again next year. Lotte Duty Free is not so hard on cameras so I hope to be able to film the whole concert if I am lucky :)

Until next week have an excellent time!!! :)

Hyundai Card Super Match 12

This Sunday was all about dance at the Hyundai Card Super Match 12 International Dance Invitation which took place at Olympic Park in Seoul.

A fantastic 2 hour performance from the best dancers in the word took place in front of a cozy crowd in the handball arena of the Olympic Park event center.

The dancing was fantastic but I don't need to talk about it too much. Check out some of the dances for yourself down below :)

Link:

http://superseries.kr/2803

Its all about dance so here are the dance videos. Sorry about the over exposure of the video but I am still learning about these things so next time I will have the settings right as I now know how to adjust the video exposure :)

Wow so that was a lot of uploading and editing... phew! So I have an upcoming event which will require more video work inside so now I have learned a vital lesson for that one... and I might need another SD card since I am planning on filming in 1080 HD!

Well until next time have a fantastic week! :)

Gansan International Migratory Bird Festival 2011 and Museums

A 3 and a half hour trip down to Gunsan to see some migratory birds.

Well it was an adventure. However if you are a tourist and were thinking about seeing this at some point... I would give it a miss. The reason I say this is although there is a shuttle bus out to see some birds it only stops at 2 places along the coast. There are a total of 16 bird watching locations of which 14 are inaccessible to those without a car i.e. tourists.

So I think Gunsan really needs to get some new ideas for attracting international tourists to this festival.

Anyway I did take some pictures around the main festival area and luckily there were a couple of musuems (Gunsan and the Maritime Museum) to visit as well.

So I will leave this as a picture blog post for your enjoyment :)

Here is also a slideshow of a few more pictures of the day:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/69725834@N02/sets/72157628060061783/show/

Ok So that is all for this week! Have a great week and see you next time for something completely different! :)

Gyeongju, Sex Museum Love Castle, Miso II, Shilla Millennium Park, G Star 2011 Bexco Busan

wow this weekend was HUGE! Friday was a day off from my work so at about 12pm we got on the KTX and went to Gyeongju.

Once we got there we took a taxi to the hotel. Gyeongju is a little different from most cities as there are not many tall buildings around. We arrived at the hotel an I saw that it was right on the lake which was a lovely sight.

First stop was the Sex Museum... now if you ask about Gyeongju to any Korean they will tell you all about the historic places but I have yet to hear anyone talk of this place. Its not far from Shilla Millennium Park.

So the following is a R19 (Korean Rating :) slideshow of what can be seen there... look if you dare.

.....But first a picture that I can show here :)

Sex Museum Slide Show:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/69725834@N02/sets/72157628115913748/show/

Later that night we went to a fantastic performance... well worth seeing of you get the chance!

Miso II. An epic korean musical. A prince fighting for his princess. Perhaps too large for the small stage that it was on but it was a spectacle.

Here is the cast:

The next day we had a walk around a few places locally so here is a slideshow of some of the scenery:

Gyeongju Slideshow:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/69725834@N02/sets/72157628115909674/show/

Shilla Millennium Park.

One of the famous places to go and visit it has some of the buildings and locations of where some of Korea's soap operas and I assume movies have been shot. Also there are some performances that can be seen there as well.

Shilla Millennium Park Slideshow:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/69725834@N02/sets/72157628115908386/show/

We got a little adventurous in the afternoon and spontaneously decided to go to Busan which is only half an hour away by KTX. There was a special event being held in Busan this year called G Star a gaming expo.

But before we get to that here are a couple of shots of fabulous Busan architecture:

G Star:

There were a few thousand people still there around 4pm when we arrived on Saturday afternoon. Most of the crowd had started to disappear as the show finished for the day at 6pm but my guess there were a few 10's of thousands left milling around at the event.

There were many game manufacturers there exhibiting their wares and plenty of opportunities to play games if you wanted to line up. A tank game appeared to be the main attraction as there were a couple of real tanks there to promote it. Anyway here are some pictures and a slideshow to give you an idea about it:

G Star slide show

http://www.flickr.com/photos/66276856@N07/sets/72157627990748861/show/

And if you were wondering....

Yes there were computer gaming girls :)

Check them out....

Phew! Ok so that was all for last weekend....

This week I managed to buy another battery for my DLSR camera so more videos? on the way perhaps.

This week also promises to be a fairly big one too so stay tuned for more of the same :)

Until next week have a fantastic time! :)

Coex Aquarium, Education New Zealand

So this week I saw something interesting on the subway... www.nzeducated.com/uhak

A New Zealand Education expo that was held at the Intercontinental Hotel near Coex in Samseong Station Line 2.

Lots of Universities, and schools from New Zealand were there to promote education in New Zealand and I ran into Sun one of my teachers from NZIE that I trained with before coming to Korea so that was a surprise!

So if you are interested in studying in New Zealand check out the link above.

Straight after that me and my friend went to the COEX Aquarium which was right next door. The cost was 17,500 Won per adult so a little expensive I thought. So it was quite similar to the building 63 aquarium but it did have a hammer head shark. I of course took some pictures so here are some and at the end more in a slide show :)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/66276856@N07/sets/72157628078009548/show/

I also took a video of the finger fish eating fingers....

And if you were interested take a walk with me around COEX and see SOME of the mall... the place is huge! So I could only show you a small portion so here it is:

So I get to have a small holiday this week beginning Friday so I am sure to have some exciting adventures to share with you next week!

Until then have a great week! :)

Halloween, Performance, 2nd birthday

So this week was pretty relaxing...

I had 2 birthday meals, one on Sunday night at a special place overlooking the Han river at night and another lunch at a hotel near Gimpo Airport.

I also got a lovely cake and a new wallet as apparently my other one made me look poor.... :/

Friday we visited a bar in the Marriot Hotel (Express Bus Terminal Line 3) for a Halloween party and spent an hour or so there before going home because we were both tired from a busy week...

Saturday I went to see my friend perform at a concert held at close to Dachi station. Here is the piece she played on the piano:

So that was it for this week very casual... next week may have a little New Zealand taste to it :)

Until then have a great week!