Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Electronics Wonderland

This weekend we hopped in the car and headed to an area called Yongsan to visit the famed Yongsan electronics market. On our way we swung buy and picked up our friend Ben who would be our trusty navigator. After Ben joined us we steered our trusty Hyundai onto the toll-road and pointed her north. We made it a couple kilometers before we hit traffic which slowed us to a crawl. We spent the next almost two hours creeping northward before being freed from the grips of traffic.

Once we approached the Han river we exited national road 1 and headed west on national road 88, or Olympic Expressway. (Seoul hosted the 88 Olympics) We kept missing bridge exits. One exit would be on the left side of the highway and then the next bridge exit would be on the right side of the highway. In then end it worked out for the best as we found a bridge that dropped us right where we wanted to be.

We found a parking garage, parked and started to explore the area. Our friend Ben took us to his “Game Guy” so we could look at a gaming consol. We looked around and decided to on a Nintendo Wii. After this we went over the main electronics mall to look around. It was insane!! Floor after floor, shop after shop of everything electronic. It was all super clean and well organized. Many camera shops had the added bonus of selling used stuff as well. Most of the time you couldn’t tell what was new and what was used because it was in such good condition.

All this shopping made us hungry so we found a nice Italian restaurant to have some dinner. It was very tasty and the bill was only 20 bucks for all four of us. The picture of J, Ben and Q is at said Italian joint.

 
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After dinner we snooped around a bit more before heading home. Upon returning home we immediately hooked up the Wii and played games for a couple hours. I have to say, (and am a bit ashamed) the Wii is really fun. The games are quite interactive, short, and fun. It’s a very social instrument.

I can’t speak for J, but I will definitely be heading back to the electronics market.

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