This weekend was another overnight trip to the town of Suwon, just an hour south of Seoul by train. Technically Suwon is Gyeonggi-do province but is connected to the Seoul metro so is an outer suburb commuter city. Suwon is famous for the folk village theme park where many dramas and movies are filmed, and the Suwon fortress which is probably koreas largest fortress and a Unesco listed sited.I had visited both before briefly during chuseok 2010 when I first arriv...

A teacher was explaining korean military service. They have to go for two years continuous at any point between age 20 and 30. They dont know when they will be called so this makes it very hard to plan things like marriage, kids, starting a business, buying a home, further studies, etc. It used to be longer but now they have reduced it to two years. He has already done his.In the first six months he got 3 days leave, next six 4 days, and every six it increases by...

Daegu Tourism has done two good write ups on Spas and Motels in Daegu.You have to be signed in thru facebook to visit the pagesParty Motelshttps://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/no tes/visit-daegu-2011_eng/motels-in-daeg u-are-awesome-o-cant-wait-till-my-b-day -party/202265916509073Some of these party motels look quite fun with games rooms, pool tables, giant tv screens, bbq areas. I have to find out where they are. I've become quite spoilt last two weekends stayin...

Daegu Tourism has listed several recreational activities in Chilgok where I livehttps://www.facebook.com/#!/notes/visit -daegu-2011_eng/tourist-attrations-in-c hilgok/196689370400061Must be signed in thru facebook to visitI visited the shooting range about a year ago, here is the blog entryhttp://blog.travelpod.com/travel-blog-e ntries/londone7/1/1290366096/tpod.html

Sunday morning me and my friend went to the bus terminal in Gongju to meet up with another friend that was arriving a day later from Daegu. There was some confusion as to whether her bus would come to this terminal but eventually she made it.The first thing we all did was cross back the river to the south side to where the fortress was. We could see a lot of the perimeter wall from the north side of the river so had an idea of the size and what areas to goto.The ...