Korea hosts an annual televised song festival where top name singers from around asia perform. This is the 8th year since 2004 and the venue changes each year to a different Korean city. As part of the 'Visit Daegu 2011' promotion, and follow up to the sucessful Daegu IAAF Games in August, the city of Daegu will also host this years song festival in the World Cup Stadium.I dont really follow K-Pop so cant comment on how good the performers are, but participants w...

Now that the big afternoon events were done we had time to wander around. First we looked around the royal palace which I had been to before. There were traditional buildings with manniquins in the buildings showing scenes from royal life. Then I wanted to do a different part of the wall from what I had done last time.I walked back to the south gate entrance for start of the wall. From here there is a very long and steep rock staircase as the wall climbs the side...

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...