This tour was organised by the Yonsei Global club. They offered two tours, and I wanted to do both, but the other one filled up before I had time to register. I’m really happy I went on this tour though, as it had a few things I probably wouldn’t have organised to do on my own.
First stop was going to learn to play some traditional korean instruments for almost 2 hrs. It was a lot of fun, and at the end I mistakenly volunteered to play the Jing. Mistakenly, because I thought it would be the easiest and we were just going to try it once, but in my nervousness I lost all sense of rhythm, and actually it was supposed to be the final note of our class lesson… thank goodness I got it right on the third try when we were videoing it! (I’m not sure that I got the rest of the beats right though).
I’m smiling on the outside, but freaking out on the inside.
Next we checked out the statues at Gwanghwamun Plaza and spent 15 mins taking photos. This is the location where the political protests are currently taking place, but they wouldn’t start until the evening.
After taking the photos we hopped on the tour bus again to Myeongdong for Korean Buffet. It was really good and we were all really hungry by this point.
Finally we walked about 15 minutes to go see a performance of the beat-box musical Bibap. It was so much fun! I don’t know what I was expecting, but it had some really talented people, plenty of comedy and a bit of fun audience participation.
A delicious musical!