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Zoe Raymond|Fitness & Yoga|Beauty & Fashion

Visting Korea, Day Two!

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Day started with visit to Gyeongbokgung Palace. This palace is nearest to our hotel, merely 5 minutes cab ride down! 

There were many guards dressed in colorful hanboks! And so, of course many any pictures with them! (:

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With my partner travelers, Veron and Eugene!

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As i was taking the above photo with the guard, i heard him sniffle a bit. Must be so cold, standing out in the cold that he's having runny nose yet unable to move much. 

We see these cute lil ones the moment we entered the Palace. 

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Children, dressed in hanboks on excursions!!! (: Couldn't resist not taking a shot with them.

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How pretty! (:

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Ticket office

Tickets were just $3 for an adult! I expected it to be more pricey.

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Gyeongbokgung Palace Tickets!

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Beautiful ceilings of the palaces

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Veron with Eugene!

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Old school

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Definitely worth the money to visit this place, at just $3, we spent about 2 hours in there. There are may palaces to visit within Gyeongbokgung Palace.



Gyeongbokgung Palace
161 Sajik-ro, Jongno-gu
Seoul, South Korea 
02 3700-3900

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Walked back to our hotel area for lunch. 

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OOTD! (:

Stopped by this Korean Restaurant because we saw many office crowd entering. Can't be bad if there are so many local patrons right? (: 

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Love Bean sprouts that i had 4 servings!

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Onions!

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Eugene with his beer at lunch time, again.

The restaurants in Korea expect everyone to order at least 1 main. So if there are 3 of us, we have to order 3 even if 1 person is not dining. This was the bad thing because we can never seem to finish. 

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Beef Ribs!

BEST BEEF we have ever had. The beef was so well marinated, it makes me salivates just thinking about it. 

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Kimchi Soup

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Our damage

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HAPPY!

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More beef!

Walked
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Walked around and got into this korean celebrity store where they sell all the korean girl band, boy band posters, calenders, Cs, DVDs! 

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Kim Hyun Joong!!!

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Jung Yong Hwa!!!

These two boys are my favorite k-pop boys! teehee

Back to the streets of back Myeongdong.

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Korean roadside stalls selling some rice cakes!

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kimbap!!!

We are at the back of Myeongdong for more shopping! And i just had to take pictures of this bank! 

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Hana Bank. How can banks look this cute?!??? I would have an account there so i can get a nice cute bank card and bank book! teehee~

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We then visited the beauty shops in search of good and cheap facial products! Korea is the land of facial goodies huh! Masks, cleanser! 

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Innisfree

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Impressive first shop which we entered. Innisfree has two levels!

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Camwhore while Eugene and Veron shopped away

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SPA from Jeju

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Etude House and Holika Holika

Favorite colors' shops next to each other! (: Purple and Pink! 

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rmeme!

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Such a cool Police Station!

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At The Face Shop with Hyun Joong! (:

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Loads of cheap contact lens~

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More pretty shops!

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$2 ice creams

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Back scrub for mama!

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Accessorize BATS body stickers for Halloween!

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Ear Studs too! (:

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FOLDER

Veron and Eugene bought a pair of shoes each from Folder. Eugene is wearing the shoes he bought. Ain't exactly cheap at around $130 but it's really nice and most importantly, Singapore dont have!!! (:

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All their buys!

I looked like the biggest shoppers to everyone but I proved them wrong cause I was without any bags at the end of days (:

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Cheap stockings!

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Laneige

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Jill Stuart!

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Cute Starbucks Van!!! (:

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View from my room (:

Went back to hotel and rest abit before heading down to the Lotte Supermarket to buy some snacks for alcohol for the evening. 

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A lot of kimchi. Looked and tasted abit cause we were all intended to buy back to Singapore.

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Hskimchi is good! 

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We ended up buying Kimchi from Hskimchi at the last day cause it's the first and best we tried. 

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I am happy girl at supermarkets!!!

Changed back into boots cause the night was cold. Back to the streets of Myeongdong! Love Myeongdong at nights, shopping outdoor with shiok weather! 

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Street Food!

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SPAO

We went to SPAO cause Eugene wants to get some SNSD from Everysing! 

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Such a cosy fan shop right! He left empty handed but we shopped SPAO a bit. The clothes there are very nice and so many levels. Eugene left with quite a number of clothes. He wanted to go back there but it was closed already. 

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Lotte Hotel Handphones~

This so good. We get free incoming calls so here's how we get each other in Korea. Because we can't seem to get any prepaid cards. We were told it takes a week to be activated and their 7-11 stores don't carry any. 

Dinner time, Korean again lol! 

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Steam egg

First time trying this Korean way. Good cause of the cold day. Veron was telling us that this is usually given when there are kids dining in. So i am the kid? hehe!

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Ginseng Chicken!

Been craving for this since we step foot into Korea, really good and fragrant.

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Bulgogi Pork

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Coca Cola in glass bottles

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Melvin why so fierce!

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Melvin and Eugene!

One last shot with the boys before we went back to the hotel. Slept at 2-3am for all nights in Korea, thankfully for all the masks i bought there, can't let the skin suffer! (:

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3 comments :

Anonymous said...

where did u get the black coat from?

Anonymous said...

Hi Zoe!
May I know where did u bought ur black/red trench coat from? Hope to hear from u.. thanks!

Anonymous said...

Hi, Where did u bought ur coat from?