On Friday, we woke up early to take a foreigner only bus down to Jeonju for the day. Jeonju is famous for it's Hanok village. Hanok are the traditional Korean houses, and it's really pretty there. It's famous for bibimbap and awesome street food too!
you can rent hanboks here too. They even have awesome gisaeng ones!
the line for these homemade chocopies
they were pretty good
rainbow slushies saved the day!
I love these meatballs. Ignore my gross sweaty face
Shrimp mandu
this is like the first Catholic church in Korea
Of course we got bibimbap! We got two kinds. One is regular and one comes in a hot stone pot
explaining the spread
we also tried Moju, which is an alcohol that comes from the makgeolli making process, i think
Looking at handmade stuff
it was Liberation from Japan day so we got into the temple for free
King Taejo, founder of the Joseon dynasty
bamboo
super steep stairway to the archives
every building is just so pretty!
Mochi or however you spell it
cream cheese hotteok
more meatballs and some fried sweet potatoes with cream cheese
leaving...
Our bus dropped us off in Myeongdong, so we explored some more and got more street food!
the legendary hot dog covered in french fries
We shopped for some things for Veronica's friends back in the 3rd world, then headed home.
On Saturday, we headed to the theater to see Jesus Christ Superstar, which the 3 of us saw with our youth group like 12 years ago. JCS is also where my mom and I saw the ad for Phantom. The rest, as they say, is history.
We also got to see one of my fav Korean musical theater actors, Park Eun Tae, who we saw in Jekyll and Hyde.
excited for the show! I forgot how many awesome songs there are in this show!
thanks to Young Ah helping me book on the Korean site (because it won't let me register...) we got better seats for only like $10 more
You're allowed to take pictures at curtain call apparently, which is cool.
Herod was played by a girl, but the song was less fun and impressive than I was expecting
these dudes were great
Pilate
Mary was soooo good!
Awesome Judas
Park Eun Tae finally got to smile after being super solemn the whole time, cause, you know, he was Jesus dying...
It was awesome. I of course would go see it again.
Afterwards, we had a goodbye party with some of Cesca's friends, so we sent them off with BBQ and soju, as one should always do when one is leaving Korea.
aftermath
round 2: flavored soju
Round 3: Noraebang
I'm probably singing Phantom or something here
rocking out
We were out till like 3 in the morning and it was really fun. We woke up late the next morning and headed to dance class, where we rocked it out. Then we got chimaek after with our class and relaxed at home in the evening.
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