Seoul: Now its a Watering Hole

The rain has been insane the last few days.  It was so bad they had to close some subway stations due to flooding.  I found this out when the subway train I was on, blew through the stop I wanted to get through, and I saw water cascading down the stairs to the exit, like that Universal Studios Earthquake ride.

Bulgogi Burritos. Genius!

I met up with a friend of Jia Jia's that was from SF and also visiting Seoul, Tom.  It's pretty cool how common it is to find 2nd or 3rd degree acquaintances while traveling in foreign cities.  Tom and I wanted to go up and explore the areas north of Ankuk, where there are some more touristy things like museums and palaces, but we got off the subway to a torrential downpour and wondered if maybe it would be brighter to find an indoor activity--so we went to the indoor mall at Yongsan (that massive electronics place; but it also has a real mall adjacent to it, with).  In the train station we were approached by some Evangelical Korean Christians.  I thought that was kind of ironic since Evengelical Christianity was brought here by westerners.

We had a final night on the town with John, an Irish guy who I've gotten to know quite well in my few days here at the hostel.  I taught our crew the telephone Pictionary game  (that I was taught by my friend Annie).  It was a hit.  We had an especially interesting round that ended with a Prehistoric procupine that worked for the fire department.  As we walked back home around 4AM, we decided we were hungry for Bi Bim Bop.  We started popping into every seemingly open restaurant we saw and said "Bi Bim Bop?" in as questionable a tone as possible.  We were shooed off by everyone.  No Bi Bim Bop was had, but it was kinda funny I bet, to watch a bunch of drunk white people stumbling around like that--Bi Bim Bop zombies we were.

Yesterday I took it kinda easy and planned my next location--Sokcho, a city on the eastern coast.  Unfortunately the hostel seems booked for the next few days, but Olive, the lady who runs the hostel here, was going to try and call them and sweet talk me a room.