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    Seoul | Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA)

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    As proof that I didn’t just eat during our last visit to Seoul (though that would be a fairly accurate description of my time there), here are some photos of an afternoon spent getting lost, going to the wrong museum, thinking I could still get to the museum I wanted to go to, roaming around clueless for another hour, then backtracking to the first museum and deciding it would have to do.

    In other words, I wanted to go to the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) but ended up at the Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA). It seeeds like an easy enough place to find except for the fact that Google sucks in Korea. When I looked up the MMCA, it pulled up the correct photos, description, etc, BUT THE WRONG ADDRESS.  The address listed was for the SeMA. I should have just gone along with what was listed on the MMCA website, but since there were three MMCA branches as well as a bunch of other National museums of some sort in the same area as the SeMA, I got confused.

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    Seoul | International Fireworks Festival

    We drove up to Seoul over a long weekend and immediately regretted it the moment we approached the outskirts of the city. What was to be a 3-4 hour drive turned…

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    SEOUL | Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP)

    Not many cities can pull off a building like the DDP, but the ever-so-modern Seoul can. Designed by Iraqi-British architect architect Zaha Hadid and built over a former sports stadium the…

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    SEOUL | Samcheong-dong (삼청동)

    On a sticky, hot, humid Saturday afternoon, we -- like many other Korean couples -- took a stroll through the charmingly quaint streets of Samcheong-dong. Nestled between two palaces and the…

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    SEOUL | Namdaemun Market

    After touring Gyeongbokgung we hopped in a cab and headed over to Namdaemun Market, the oldest and largest market in Korea. Without any plans and with no real desire to buy…

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    SEOUL | Gyeongbokgung Palace

    We jumped on a KTX to Seoul over 4th of July weekend and, after quickly checking into our hotel and changing into shorts, jumped back onto the subway to tour one…