2018 Korea Archives - Travelling Minions

Planning for Korea

ByMinion-Chris January 31, 2018 0 Comments

In February, I'll be travelling with a friend to South Korea! This trip was something that'd we'd been talking about for over a year and as time passed it started to come to fruition. For my friend, he's been to Korea a few times and has continually grown very fond of their culture. I was super impressed when he learned how to speak Korean and how much he has familiarized himself with the...

First Few Days in Korea (Travel woes, Olympics and Golden moments!)

ByMinion-Chris February 17, 2018 2 Comments

Flying to Korea All my bags were packed and I was ready to go to Korea! I'd like to have said that getting checked in and through to the gate went without a hitch, sadly this time it didn't! I'd like to have said that the airline caused this unneeded stress at the beginning of an amazing trip, but it wasn't. Unfortunately, this time it was all me. I made a silly mistake when booking and checking...

Olympics Day 2 – Snowboarding and Hockey

ByMinion-Chris February 21, 2018 0 Comments

After crashing big time following our day in the Gangneung Olympic Plaza, we were up pretty early, having slept for around 12 hours. Our plan today was to train to the mountains where we would watch some snowboarding, before training back to Gangneung to take in a hockey game. Phoenix Snow Park After checking out of our AirBNB we took a short bus ride to Gangneung station where we boarded a KTX...

Olympic Plaza and K-Pop

ByMinion-Chris February 28, 2018 2 Comments

We didn't have any Olympic events to attend today but wanted to head to the Pyeongchang mountain area to check out what the Olympic festivities looked like there. We also had a K-Pop awards show to attend back in Seoul in the evening. Since we already had a chance to watch a mountain event in the form of the half pipe. But we hadn't had a chance to visit the Olympic plaza area so we planned to...

Exploring the Olympic Venues and host cities

ByMinion-Chris March 7, 2018 2 Comments

Gangneung Our plan today was to head back to the Gangneung and explore in and around the city since we didn't get much of a chance to do that yet. We would leave Seoul in the morning, train to Gangneung and hang out. We were treated to a lovely morning in Seoul, and it was a neat contrast to see an empty street vs. the hustle and bustle. The first airbnb we stayed at was actually on top of a...

Gunsan

ByMinion-Chris March 15, 2018 4 Comments

Gunsan We had a unique day planned today. We were going to make use of our Pyeongchang rail pass and take a train down to a smaller city along the west coast of Korea. Gunsan would be our destination today. This part of our trip was inspired by a Korean travel show called Battle Trip. On this show a K-Pop girl group went on a very cool day trip to Gunsan and we wanted to emulate their itinerary....