Korea City Hall

The first location that I went in Korea was the Seoul City Hall. I wasn’t visited there on purpose but was actually passed by when I am searching my way to reach Myeong Dong. According to Wikipedia, this Renaissance-style stone building was founded in 1926. I didn’t truly know much about this building, but I knew that one of the episode of the RunningMan was filmed in this building before. =P

I was actually amazed with the outlook of this building as I had never seen architecture like this.

I was there during summer and they are decorating the field with a Korea flag formed by flower, right in front of the Korea City Hall. 

There was an exhibition ongoing at the big field right in front of the City Hall. I was glad to have a chance to learn about the traditional game of Korean to train their stamina. It was a big scale of swing that people swing themselves on it.

A wrong demonstration by me

A Korean guy with good stamina

I wasn’t good in playing that and only able to have a light swing from front to back. There was a Korean guy had showed me the actual way of the game where he able to swing almost up to the sky.


How to reach there?

Take Seoul Subway line 1 or 2 to City Hall Station, Exit 5.

My staying in Seoul

My home in Seoul is actually the hostel for Kyung Hee University’s International Student.

During my summer program in Korea, I was staying in an off-campus hostel for international students near the main entrance of Kyung Hee University. There were several off-campus hostels for the international students and I stayed in International House 2.

It was a 5 floor building and I was staying at the top floor of the building. Fortunately, there was a lift in the building. I can’t imagine how am i going to walk up to 6 floors every day.

The room is a twin sharing room. It was small but it was well-equipped and comfortable. When step into the room, there is the toilet on the right hand side and a kitchen on the left. The room is equipped with television, washing machine, water heater, air-conditioner, refrigerator and a microwave. There is also a double-storey bed, wardrobe, and 2 desks plus cupboard.

As I was at the top floor of the building, I did enjoy the view by looking down from the window.

This room is truly amazing and my roommate and I love it very much. Truly wish I can have a room like this here in Malaysia.