Better Late Than Never: Namsan Tower

Although I went to Namsan Tower over a week ago, I still thought I would make a little post about it. Namsan Tower, also called North Seoul Tower, is the located in Namsan, the geographical center of Seoul. It has an obervation deck that you can go up to for a fee. It has become a destination for tourists, but especially couples. There are trees and fences covered in love locks all over the place. Couples write notes to their significant others on a lock and then they lock them onto the fence together, declaring their undying love for one another.

We went on the last day of Chuseok break. We took the bus to Itaewon (foreigner district) then transferred to the Namsan bus that took us to the mountain.

I will let the pictures tell the story.

A view of Seoul on the way up to the tower.

The tower.

Love lock trees.

Just a small portion of the love lock fences.

Couples are told not to throw away the keys to their locks, but many do to symbolize their committment to each other.

So pretty.

Bubbles!

Waiting to go up to the observation deck.

Apparently it has the world's fastest elevator.

Light show on the elevator wall as we wait for it to come down and pick us up.

This is what played on the ceiling of the elevator as we went up. Notice how long this video is. It took just over 20 seconds to shoot up the tower! Pretty cool.

Views from the top.

Han River.

Love blocks inside the observation deck.

Showing Namsan our love!

Time to ride the cable car down the mountain.

Goodbye Namsan!

See you soon.

Other recent adventures, food, etc.

My first waffle in Korea. From Cafe Croute. Warm, fresh waffle with chocolate froyo inside. 맛있다!

Porridge! Mine is the orange one (pumpkin) and the purple ones were sweet potato. Both were delicious!

Meal: conquered.

The sign for the bathroom at a coffee shop. WHAT!?

It's surprising what American food I have found over here.

Tastes just the same as in America.

Best dinner ever.

I bought some stickers for my keyboard so that I can type in Hangul!

I plan to talk much more about the couples here at some point, but here are just a few shots of ones I have captured. Couple shirts are huge over here. Boyfriends and girlfriends will wear the EXACT SAME SHIRT to show that they are together. You have to be quick! They move fast.

In Myeongdong.

At the subway station.

This weekend:

Photo is from Google.

Yon-Ko Jeon: A huge sports rivalry between my school (Yonsei University) and Korea University. It's a 2-day competition filled with baseball, basketball, ice hockey, soccer and rugby matches. All of the international students learned and practiced all of the cheers for the games. It is going to be awesome! I will make a post about that early next week.

Photo is from Google.

On Sunday, we are going to see world K-Pop sensation, RAIN. A post will be on its way soon after that. RRRRAAAIIIINNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!

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