Daegu Adventure

On Saturday, January 14th, 2012 I decided to make a visit to Daegu city. Daegu is the 3rd largest city in South Korea, just behind Seoul and Busan. I went with my friend Jay who is also a fellow Canadian. She and I were excited about this trip for a week. I haven't left Busan since my K-Pop concert adventure in Seoul in early December. Anyways, here's what we did. We got on the KTX around 10:36am from Busan and arrived at Daegu around 11:22am. We immediately went to the information desk to seek for maps and tourist attractions. We got on a bus tour for 5,000 won per person. We saw the EXCO building (basically an exhibition place)and an opera house before we decided to get off at the 'Herbal Medicine Street'. We walked around for bit, took pictures of random things that we found interesting. We visited a herbal medicine museum for an hour or so. Of course ginseng was the most prominent herbal medicine that was featured over and over again. However, there were others that I never knew about. Anyways, we got back on the tour bus because we still had the ticket and it arrives every 2 hours. This time we got off at Woobang Tower and E-World. We weren't particularly interested in the theme park so we skipped E-World. We walked up the hill to Woobang Tower. We got in for free. Not sure how we managed to do that but neither of us worried about it. We took plenty of pictures and even aerial view of the theme park. It was pretty cool to see the entire Daegu city from above. The urban life form is surrounded and cornered by mountains. You can see it in the far background. It really was a nice feature and great protection against any invaders in the future. We got down to the 2nd floor of the tower and we both saw a mural of an old Italian landscape. We took a photo with it and then we realized there was a trick art museum at the tower! Immediately we paid 10,000 won each and entered the Euroseum Trick Art Museum. It was a lot of fun and great jokes. We took plenty of pictures. However, I decided to turn the pictures into collages so that I can reduce the amount of pictures I need to upload to Facebook and to my blog here. Well, enjoy!
Finally, we got down from the Woobang Tower around 6pm, got on a taxi because we were too tired, lazy, and cheap to afford the tickets to get down by the SkyLine (cable carts). We headed to Seomun Market. It's similar to Busan's Nampo-dong without the massive amount of people. Although, it was still crowded. I had a Daegu's version of hodduk, which looked like a roti (a Tamil/South Indian/Sri Lankan version of naan) but it did not taste better than Busan's hodduk. Jay bought few things from the market while I got some fuzzy socks for my friends back home. It was around 7pm so we decided to head back to Daegu station. There we had dinner. I had shrimp bimbimbap with two fried eggs. I gave away my seaweed soup, kimchi and this other side dish to Jay. I was really happy with what I had because I was really full. Finally, we got on the KTX around 8pm and we got back into Busan around 8:45pm. Busan to Daegu is only 45 minutes away by KTX! I can now cross Daegu from my places to visit in South Korea. I am planning to visit either Andong or Namhae in February or March. In other news, my friend Victoria who left Korea awhile back is going to come back February 26th! She got another contract to teach in Busan again. I guess she couldn't live the Toronto lifestyle after experiencing the Korean way of life. Either way, I am excited because she likes to do adventurous things like I do. One more week of winter camp left and I am super excited!