I have a friend in Seoul named Jina. She used to go to the same school with me in Calgary, but due to the currency of Korean Won keep dropping her parents couldn’t afford to stay in Canada anymore so she went back to South Korea. When I went to Seoul, Jina and her family were very welcoming and invited me to Jina’s grandmother’s 79th birthday. They said they wanted me to experience Korean culture and eat some homemade Korean food and I was very pleased. I had a great time!
This is Jina and I at her house. Jina has a really big family and because her parents have a big house everyone went to her house for the party.
This is Jina’s grandmother in the pink shirt and she is ready to cut her cake. Doesn’t the food on the table look delicious?
Many Koreans like to put cream on the birthday person’s face. Looks like grandmother didn’t escape the “attack”.
One of the birthday cakes. It looked a lot of better before we cut it, but it tasted delicious.
After the party, Jina and her sister and cousins and I went out for shopping. We went to another famous shopping place in Seoul which is the Dongdaemum and you can get there taking subway line 1 or line 4. Unlike Myeondong which is a street full with stores, Dongdaemum is just a place that contain many individual department stores, and the one we went to is called mall Doota. You will never be worried to get lost in the store because the mall provides customers with floor guides in Korean, English, Japanese and Chinese.
Although Dongdaemum has many department stores, but I don’t recommend going there because everything in the store were very expensive. If you are planning on buying cheap things it is better to go to Myeondong.
From left to right: Jina, Jina’s sister, the rest were all Jina’s cousins.
Originally posted by Katty