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Korea: N Seoul Tower
written on Sunday, June 01, 2014 @ 4:17 PM ✈
안녕!
It has been quite a while since I am back! Too busy recently with things. So the longer interval between each post!
Hopefully I can finish all my intended updates before the date that I previously
mentioned :)
I think I have yet to mention my trip to Namsan for N Seoul Tower, the tourist must go (or should I say would go?
Hahas) tower in Seoul as it is the
highest observatory tower in Seoul. (But if you have been to a few others
taller observatories in other countries then you might want to skip this? Since
it isn’t very tall, I think is about 200 to 300 m in height?)
However, you can still choose to visit the teddy bear museum
and the love lock corner even if you don’t feel like visiting the observatory :) (There is a bundled
pricing for the museum and the observatory if you wish to visit both of them at
the same time!)
So ZH and I went to meet our friend, J with her cousin for
the trip to Namsan since it just so happened as I was in Korea when it was my
birthday, and we all have yet to visit Namsan! (hahas, belated celebration for my 21st with my familiar friends, not bad huh, hehe ?)
( Long candle, unlike the one in Singapore, like how they come with matchsticks as well! So thoughtful!)
So we met at somewhere nearby the Namdaemun subway area before walking up to take the cable car to
the bottom of the observatory tower!
I think you can choose the walking way, if you don’t mind
climbing the slope. But it was raining when we were there so cable car might be
a better choice>< (Plus, we didn’t know where is walking area, since the
cable car area and the walking area is quite a distance away.)
Anyway the cable car was slightly different from the one we
have in Singapore to bring us into Habourfront. (Everyone just squeeze into one
cart, and off we go to the tower! A bit scared since it is upward riding and it
was quite crowded, so get a ‘good’ spot once you are inside, aka hold the pole
area. Oh, was it only one or two cart that is in operation for the cable car?
)(Singapore’s cable car limits a certain number of people and all passengers
have to be seated, if I didn’t remember wrongly >.<)
(Raining :( Sob,sob)
(Finally here! At the Cable car area.)
  
(The view better through your eyes! :) )
(See the number of ppl inside one cable car!)
(We are finally here!!)
(Observatory tower behind!)
 
(Love Lock trees!!)
 
Yeah, so we are finally here at the tower! Bought the bundle
package (duh, we are all girls so how can we miss the teddy museum, what’s more
the museum theme is Korea history, so it helps you to understand Korea a little
bit more and at the same time appreciate those bears, hahas)
How can we not take some photos outside before plunging into
the museum and the tower?
 
(Teddy bear museum and observatory tower combination!)
 
(raining cloud :( if not it will be a lot more prettier!!)
Some ice-cream in a rainy day before heading to the teddy bear museum!
 
The teddy bear museum is located outside the official
entrance of the top part of the observatory tower.
(let's pose with teddy bear PSY!)
 
(this is random, hahas, some info about N Tower?)
(human size teddy bear! so cute:)))
 
(this is outside the entrance of the observatory N Seoul Tower)
There are 2 sections for the teddy museum as they are split
into the past and present of Korea; you can choose to enter anyone of them
first? But I guess most people would want to start from the past right? Or am I
wrong? Lol!
In the ‘past’ section of the museum, the settings revolve
around the palaces and commoners building house / doing their own daily
activities, some of the bears are able to move as well! I know this is weird
but I really wonder how they keep the bear ‘seem’ like dust-free while touring
the whole museum, hahas.
(Building of the traditional houses in the past!)
(ceremony in the palace!)
(life size teddy bear!)
(i think he is a Yangban, or is he a official?)
(Palace ceremony)
(King's library)
(The KING!! the hand for the lighting to be better, hahas!! LOL at the things we do to take photos, hehe)
(At one of the gate to the streets)
(horse riding time, women are not allowed to ride a horse in the past!)
(slightly more modernised)
(simplified timeline for Korea!)
So after the visiting the ‘past’, let’s fast-forward and see
how Korea has changed and become a modernized country now!
(i think this is for the opening ceremony of Korea Zoo? )
(could be Gangnam during Christmas? couldn't really rmb alr)
(outside Dongdaemum, cause Doota! is there! hahas)
(should be Insadong, if i didn't remember wrongly)
 
(the Nanta show famous in Korea)
(World Cup season infront of the City Hall!)
(President House- known as Blue House)
(Hip-hop area!)
(teddy bear PSY again! hahas)
Main tourist attractions of Seoul are portrayed here,
Everland, City Hall, etc, you name it and they got it!
(Princess and Prince!!)
Other special teddy bears are available on display as well!
(Winnie the Pooh's teddy bear!)
     
Teddy bear shop is available for you to get some souvenirs as well! But no photo-taking there! :( So here is the only one from taken within what we can see from the museum side.
I think we spent about 2 to 3 hours there? Just kept taking
photos after photos and it’s so difficult to keep our eyes away from them! They
are really cute!
It was around 4 to 5pm when we are done at the museum and
went down to love lock area before we head up to the top of the observatory for
the sunset and night scenery!!
     
There is something that I would like to admit here, I
actually got a bit shocked when I see the love lock in real life and up close,
they are definitely not as pretty as they seems in photos, cause some of them
are rusty already, :(
Well, what to expected when these locks are left in the rain/sun/wind for 365
days every year! (But, they are still good for far photo shoot, since they are
so colourful, and available in all different designs and shape!)
Am I the only one who wondered if anyone would remove the
locks to make space for new locks cause almost every couple who come here lock
one at least!! And there are so many people who come here each day!!
 
Hate the bad weather that day makes the sky so dull and
cloudy :( And it was getting windier as it gets darker!
Time to get to the top of the observatory tower to get a
window for the sunset! :) (Ok, there wasn’t any sun to begin with so we are up
there to see the change in the sky colour, lol!)
(a little boring here as there wasn’t much thing to do other
than looking out of the panels to see the landscape about Namsan.)
(the screen on the top of the lift during the ride up to the top of the observatory! it was super fast!!)
 
(you can see every part of Seoul at the top of the observatory tower!)
At least the night scenery save the trip up to the top of
the observatory if not it would have been a waste of money :)
(souvenir shop! no close up photos allowed:( )
  
(finally night time!)
(Pardon for the lack of scenery light, as we were using our
phones’ light to see our face in those photos, hehe)
Finally night time, so is time to go down the tower to see
the light show using the outer surface of the observatory tower! And to visit
the souvenir shop as well, I still haven’t use my souvenir up till now, lol! It
is a gift box which contains something of everything, definitely not as pretty
as those that you buy separately but is still passable since it is 7k won!
Back to the Love Lock area before the light show on the tower!
   
Night show using the tower!
  
Time to leave already since it was really late and we
haven’t eaten our dinner yet!
 
Notice that we didn’t eat anything other than the cake in
the late morning, and an ice-cream during the afternoon. We are damn hungry
now!! Rush off to Myeongdong ASAP as it is getting late, maybe around 9 plus??
And most of the shop closes at 10pm in Myeongdong, including the street food
and restaurants! (we went back another day to shop at Myeongdong, if you are a
shopaholic/ comestic focus/ eating you need half a day at least and stay from
later afternoon to night as more food store at night!)
(Street food!! I love the street food there!!)
(Did i mention before that ZH always take photo with her handsome whenever we see him? Partly our fault, since we know she love him! hahas)
Notice: I just realized that they have replaced the teddy
bear museum with Alive museum now!:(
Well, you can always go for the teddy bear museum in Jeju instead, if you going.
Anyway, Alive museum is a similar type of museum as Trick eye and there is one
Alive at Jeju previously. Think Trickeye and Alive is just museum owned by 2
different companies, but concept is the same? Since me and ZH skipped Alive in
Jeju and based on from our friends who went to Alive when we go for the folk
museum it is similar idea, just different picture. hahas
Address
105, Namsangongwon-gil, Yongsan-gu, Seoul
서울특별시 용산구 남산공원길 105 (용산동2가)
By Bus:
Namsan Shuttle Bus No. 02 Namsan Library/ Hanok Village/ Chungmuro Station (Exit 2, 4)/ Dongguk University Station (Exit 6)/ National Theater No. 03 Seoul Station, Seoul Square/ HoeHyeon Station/ Namsan Tunnel no. 3/ Itaewon Station (Exit 4)/ Yongsan-gu Office No. 05 Namsan Library/ Namdaemun Market/ Chungmuro Station (Exit 2, 4)/ Hanok Village/ Dongguk University Station (Exit 6)/ National Theater
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