I wanted to continue this blog with what I did on the same Saturday as I met that friend from Instagram. My other friends from the dorm and I had plans to go out clubbing in Hongdae, and were looking for places with no cover charges, as some of them can be 10-20,000KRW (Too much! D:)
There are also, unfortunately, a lot of clubs that will not let foreigners in. Anyway, we had a place in mind but when we got to it it ended up being more of a bar than a club, and since we were more interested in dancing we decided to look elsewhere. Of course we got lost trying to find the next place, and once we did we found it was not open. After much frustration, we decided to try for noraebang, or karaoke, instead. Because there is a curfew for high school students after a certain time, you have to have ID to get into some of these places. All of us had our ID except for one person and even though the employee was willing to let us all in, his superior said no. We left the noraebang in a sad mood, only to have our friend recover her ID. We went to noraebang for about 2 hours, which cost about 5,000 per person. The prices change depending on what time you go, so the best time to go is on a weekday between 6 and 12. It was so much fun and I am itching to go back. They have a HUGE selection of songs, including songs in Japanese, English, Spanish, Thai, you name it.
Before that though, we stopped at a little place that sells cocktails in a caprisun type bag...actually it looked like an IV drip bag. It's not every day that you can drink a cocktail from a plastic sack. I got a peachy-pineappley one.
While we were deciding what to do we stopped at this ice cream place that had really pretty ice cream so here's some photos.
All in all, the night was kind of a bust but noraebang was so much fun! The next day was super exciting for me because Kelsi and I were going to see INFINITE!! If any of you read my Europe blog, my last entry was about seeing Infinite in London. I LOVE Infinite and I kind of got these tickets on a whim because I was trying to get tickets to see BTS, but they sold out in about 5 seconds. This concert still had tickets available and were half the price of the BTS tickets. The concert was at the First Gymnasium at Seoul Olympic Park. It took, by subway, about half an hour to get there. Once we got there there were peoples selling all kinds of merchandise EVERYWHERE, and people were waiting in really long lines to get said merchandise....the lines were so long that I was unsure where the actual line to get in was. We had to walk a bit but we found the gymnasium and the will-call tent. I bought my tickets through INTERPARK which has a global ticketing site where you don't need a foreigner registration number in order to make an account. If you are going to Korea, this site along with YES24 are great for buying tickets to certain concerts. We got the tickets and I bought an Infinite official lightstick because I am a nerd like that. They also had stand up cutouts you could pose with along with different outfits from each era displayed.
Once we got inside, we found that our seats were literally the second to last row. I didn't really mind this though because the last time I saw Infinite, I was so close that I could see the sweat on their faces, but I couldn't see the elaborate dances they did. This way I could see the entire dance. It is also extremely forbidden to take pictures in these concerts, and I noticed that most people respect this rule and don't try to record anything. They also don't stand during the concert, but sit and dance and chant in their seats. This was actually not a full concert, but a fan gathering. They had an MC who asked them questions and played games with them and the audience. Randomly picked people got to share sandwiches, be picked up and carried, and take selfies with the members. All in all they played maybe about 7 or 8 songs. We met an adorable little girl who said she loved talking with foreigners.
I hope I can go to a lot of concerts here! It was really so much fun!
Next time I'll talk about Lord Sandwich, Strawberry Town, Baskin Robbins, and the U-Plex Department Store!
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