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러브뮤지엄 & 트릭아이뮤지엄 (19금) | Love Museum & Trick Eye Museum (NSFW)
My boyfriend and I had a lot of fun exploring Hongdae’s Love Museum and Trick Eye Museum. They’re located in the same building, where there is also a ‘circus fair’ and ‘ice museum’, so there’s so much to do there.
홍대 러브뮤지엄과 트릭아이뮤지엄에서 남자친구랑 즐거운 시간 보냈어요. 둘다 같은 건물에 있고 아이스뮤지엄과 서커스도 있어서 볼거리가 많아요.
Read about what we did there and see pictures from the Love Museum here. Pictures are NSFW!!
지동 벽화마을 | Jidong Mural Village
요즘 서울 이화 벽화마을에 가볼까 생각 많이 하는데 수원에도 행궁동 벽화마을 말고 다른 벽화마을이 없을까 궁금해서 검색해봤어요. 들어본 적이 없었던 지동 벽화마을이 나와서 거기 가기로 했어요. 우선은 창룡마을 창작센터에 가서 스탬프 지도를 받았어요.
I’ve been wanting to go to Iwha Mural Village(이화 벽화마을) in Seoul for a while, so I wondered if there was any mural village in Suwon other than Haenggung-dong(행궁동 벽화마을). We searched online and found Jidong Mural Village(지동 벽화마을), which I hadn’t even heard of before, and set off to visit there. We started by going to Changyong Village Creative Centre(창룡마을 창작센터) to get a stamp map from the office.
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바로 밖에는 행궁동 벽화마을이 있으니까 예술을 좋아하는 분에게 아주 좋은 코스인 것 같어요. 행궁동 벽화마을도 작은 편이지만 그래도 예쁜 그림이 많아요. 더 큰 벽화마을에 가고 싶으면 가까은 지동 벽화마을이 더 좋을 수도 있지만, 여기 화성행궁도 바로 앞이라서 여기는 짧은 시간에 다양한 곳을 돌아다닐 수 있어요.
Haenggung-dong Mural village(행궁동 벽화마을) starts right outside the gallery, so for people who like art this makes a lovely place to start a day out. Haenggung-dong Mural village is also quite small, but there are still a lot of very nice murals. If you’d like to visit a larger mural village then Jidong(지동벽화마을) might be better, but since this is right next to Hwaseong Fortress(화성행궁) it’s easy to walk to various different sights within a short time.
대안공간 눈 & 행궁동 벽화마을
왠지 수원에서 미술관을 찾기 어려워요. 지동 벽화마을에 간 다음에 행궁동 벽화마을에 있는 대안공간 눈(Alternative Space Noon) 전시관을 잠깐 방문했어요. 예쁘게 꾸며진 건물에서 작은 전시실 4개 있어서 크지 않아도 다양한 미술 스타일을 한 번에 볼 수 있어요.
For some reason it’s hard to find art exhibitions in Suwon. So, after going to Jidong Mural Village(지동 벽화마을) we stopped in at this small gallery in Haenggung-dong Mural Village, Alternative Space Noon(대안공간 눈). The building is painted beautifully with its own murals and inside there are 4 small exhibition rooms, so although it’s not large it does display a variety of different collections.
First bamboo forest, First time meeting the parents
작년 4월에 처음으로 경기도 밖으로 나갔어요. 남자친구 부모님을 만나는 것도 처음이었어요. 광주에 가는 건 처음이라 뭐 할까 고민하다가 가까운 죽녹원(담양 대나무숲)으로 갔어요.
엄청 더운 날이라서, 숲에 들어가 그늘에서 시원하게 산책하자고 했어요. 하지만 그렇지 않았어요. 딱 도착해서 뭔가 깨달았어요. 여기… 산인가? 여기 산이네. 더워 죽을 것 같았지만 결국 출발했어요.
Last May I travelled outside of Gyeonggido for the first time, and met my boyfriend’s parents. It was our first time in Gwangju so we didn’t really know what to do. In the end we decided to go the bamboo forest close by in Damyang(담양 죽녹원).
It was a scorching hot day, so we thought it would be nice to talk a walk in the cool shade of the forest. Alas that is not what we did. We realised it as soon as we arrived: Is this…. a mountain? It’s a mountain. The weather was so hot it felt like death, but we started off on our walk.
보성 녹차밭 (어린이날 주말 / Children’s day weekend 2/2)
On Saturday we rented a car and drove from Gwangju(광주) to Boseong(보성) to visit the green tea fields(녹차밭) and Yulpo beach(율포해숙장). We got stuck in traffic, again, leaving Gwangju(광주) and had to squeeze our plans for the day into a much shorter time than expected, but as soon as we got on the road to Boseong the way was really clear and the surroundings beautiful. That drive through the mountains was the most healing part of our weekend and has pretty much prepared me for anything that comes my way this month. The Korean countryside is undeniably beautiful, and whether it be by car, bus, or train, looking out the window on a long drive here has become one of my favourite things since the day I arrived on the plane and made the journey from the airport to my home in Suwon.
토요일에는 렌트카 를 빌려서 보성녹차밭에 가러 광주에서 출발했어요. 또 광주 안에서 차가 막혀서 늦게 도착했지만 보성에 가는 길은 차가 별로 없고 경관이 너무 아름다웠어요. 그 산 속을 지나면서 드라이브를 하는 것이 여행 중에서 제일 힐링되는 시간이였고, 그 시간을 통해 이제 이번달에 해야할 일을 다 하자는 마음을 먹을수 있었어요. 한국의 지방이 정말 아름다워요. 한국에 처음와서 비행기에서 내리고 인천 공항부터 수원 집까지 버스 타고 갔을 때부터 버스든지 기차든지 차든지 한국에서 이동하면서 창문 밖으로 한국의 지방을 구경하는 것이 저에게는 최고예요.
See pictures and read rest of the post on our lovely weekend trip 🙂
전주 한옥마을 (어린이날 주말 / Children’s Day weekend ½)
‘Golden week’ was a blessing. After a stressful time with work and school and an even busier month up ahead (this is my final and most difficult month of uni), having a few days off to travel gave me some much need refreshment.
On Friday we caught the bus to Jeonju(전주) to visit the Hanok Village there (you’re probably bored of posts about hanok villages, right? I promise this is the last one!). Lots of people recommend Jeonju as a good place to visit so I’ve been wanting to go for a long time and it really was a beautiful place.
황금연휴는 축복이였습니다. 요즘 바빠서 스트레스도 받고, 이번달이 졸업이라서 대학교 다닐 때중 가장 바쁜 달이에요. 그래서 몇일 쉬고 여행 간 것이 너무 좋았어요.
금요일에는 버스를 타고 전주한옥마을에 갔어요. (이제 한옥마을에 대한 포스트는 지루하겠죠.. 이것은 마지막입니다^^). 전주한옥마을 여행을 추천하는 친구들이 많아서 오랫동안 가고 싶었는데 그말대로 아주 멋진 곳이였어요.

뭐 먹을래?
Korean food is the best. It’s delicious and filling and affordable. One thing people always say is great about living in Korea is that it’s cheap and easy to eat out, and I agree. For the first few months I was here I ate out every day for most meals. But I’m broke and it did get too expensive, and was also hard to eat healthy (lots of meat, lots of soju, not much greenery). So for the past couple of months we’ve been trying to cook at home. At first it was really difficult to know what to cook and buy, what side dishes to make that wouldn’t go bad before we could eat it all, how to plan food for the week and stick to it etc. But we’ve started to get used to it and have been getting better at cooking and learning new dishes as well! Now we’ve all agreed that these days we’re eating well, feeling healthy, saving money and enjoying trying out new things. We still usually eat out on weekends because we’re usually out of the house, so I’ve made a short (and very low quality…) video to show what I ate this Sunday and Monday to show what kind of thing we usually eat during the week and weekends.
한식은 최고입니다. 맛있고 싸고 양이 많아요. 외국인들이 주로 한국에서 쉽고 저렴하게 외식을 할 수 있는 것은 한국살이의 장점이라고 하는데 제가 동의해요. 처음 왔을 때는 몇달동안 매일매일 외식을 했지만, 결국엔 비싸졌고 건강하지 않게 느꼈어요 (고기 많고, 소주 많고, 채소 없다). 그래서 요즘 집밥을 하도록 노력하고 있어요. 처음에는 무슨 요리를 해야 되는지, 어떤 반찬이 오래 가는지, 일주일 메뉴를 어떻게 계획할지 몰라서 조금 어려웠어요. 그래도 집에서 요리하다 보니 익숙해지고 새로운 요리에 도전하면서 요리 실력이 늘고 있어요. 이제 우리 모두가 집에서 해먹는 것을 맛있게 먹고, 건강하게 느끼고, 돈을 아끼게 됐다고 생각해요. 보통 주말에는 집 밖이라서 아직 외식도 하는데 주말 평일에 뭘 먹는지 보여주려고 짧은 동영상 만들어봤어요. 저렴하게 먹고 싶은 외국분께 도움이 되면 좋겠어요.
Click through to see the video and read details on how I cook and eat on the cheap in Korea!