Pathetic day 1

urgh okay that was slow of me i'm sorry>< kinda busy recently so i don't really have time to update and since i wanna do a proper update with photos it's gonna take some time for me to finish posting everything up>< 

sorry if any of you are waiting(if there is even anyone :3) 
so basically on my first day, 4th April, we touched down at Incheon Airport at about 10.30pm. i know it's considered really late :3 wanna know why? well it was SIA promotion and there wasn't much timing for the flight left so we thought since the price is decent the timing shouldn't matter that much. bad choice actually): see out of the 4 of us (my parents, my friend and I) I was the only one that could understand and read hangul. and i'm not exactly good at it, so navigating around after checking out would be a problem. after we checked out, we decided to settle phone rental and subway passes before making our way to the pension.

phone rental I would say it's not a must. if you are a smart phone user and you are bringing your phone over the good news is there is practically wifi almost everywhere. unless you need to call anyone that's holding onto a korean number then well yea get it. the rental isn't cheap anyway and you need to pay a large sum as deposit like in case you run away with the phone or sth.

subway passes are simple~ they almost sell them at any convenience stall. so just head over to any of them and get the card you can top it up right on the spot too! 

you can take an airport limousine or subway to get to the place you want from Incheon. but if you reach as late as we did then by the time you settled down both of them probably stopped their service alr. the last airport limousine ends service at 10pm while the last subway is at 12am. 

when we were all done with our stuff it was alr around 1am. which means the only way to get out of the airport is probably the taxi. and since our pension is at seoul, myeongdong area....it's kinda a long way down.

we were lucky we didn't have to go taxi hunting though~ the taxi drivers might probably be hanging around in the airport to ask if you need a ride. if you are not good with korean then make sure you have alr printed out a map on how to get to the place you want to go.

the uncle we got speaks a little english. he was introducing different places that we went by to us. my dad had some fun trying to communicate with him in english. my mum and my friend however was falling asleep.

btw the pension we are living at is called seoul tower ville. by the time we reached there, the cab fare alr went up to about 150 000₩ so yep if you are going to take cab make sure you have that amount with you!^^

on a side note, it would be much easier if you print their subway map beforehand and keep it with you throughout the trip[:

so yep that's how pathetic my day 1 at korea was~ 

thanks for reading~ and comment if you have any questions^^ i'll be glad to answer them~