Korea Late Winter Sonata 2015 - Seoul - Meyongdong/ N Seoul Tower (明洞/南山塔）

Since there is still plenty of time after lunch before we are due for the night train, it was decided we drop by the shopping belt of Meyongdong for some quick shopping.

Exit 8 of Meyongdong

The main reason that I decided to drop by here is to visit the Lapalette flagship store. Fell in love with the bag designs and was told that it is cheaper to get it from Korea.

But exchange rates were not our favour. There was 50% sale for last season items but none caught my attention. Current season items were given 10% discount and is tax free.

Lapalette flagship stall

Frankly speaking, the designs this season was a tad disappointing. Didn't find one that will caught your attention immediately. Spent quite some time here trying on nearly all the bags and finally got one.

The bag costs SGD 315 after tax rebate using OCBC card at the rate of 790KRW. Not sure whether this is any much cheaper should I buy here in Singapore but I didn't check.

New bag

Meyongdong is seriously crowded on a Sunday not unlike our Bugis street and we have trouble going into shops due to huge crowd. There is a whole row of shop selling the famous skin care shops and you can literally go crazy/broke just by shopping here.

Anyways, we gave up. Cannot even get hold of a sales who is busy juggling between 10 customers each time. Besides the big spenders are getting more attention(duh!) and is more pro in getting attention.

As we return back to Meyongdong station, we came across an underground mini mart and went in to check out.

Was super happy to see so many snacks on sale her and brought some to prepare for tonight's night train and tomorrow's day trip.

Berry rice wine

I saw some pretty looking berry rice wine and decided to buy a bottle to try since I keep seeing people drink in tv shows. Alcohol here is cheap alright.

A bottle of this only costs around SGD3.

But I am afterall not a good drinker, although this is sweet, I couldn't really take the strong alcohol tatse. Took me to 4days to finish this bottle.

Brought the famous Banana milk to try too since was told that this is very nice.Guess it did not suit us and we struggle to finish this small bottle. Not sure how to describe but it tastes weird. Too use to drinking non flavoured one I guess.

Banana Milk

Decided to move on to N Seoul tower since its already 4pm and partner had earlier told us that N Seoul tower is best visited during evening time. Took Exit 3 and walked up the path to left of Pacific hotel where the cable car station is (or so as per visit Korea website).

After 15min of walking, we see nothing in sight except for 2 rows of shops along the way. Cannot even see any cable car from where we are standing.

Along the street

 Worst thing is, this is a uphill climb. Had this been a wrong direction, Mr Love would turned into a polar bear and my life would be in great danger. Tried asking a young couple but the kid just answered a " Don't Know, I anything also don't know!" and walked off with his girlfriend.

Seoulites! No where as friendly as your Busan counterparts.

How cold was your ex-girlfriend heart?

We turned right as we exit from the slope and to my delight, I spotted cable car moving up to the tower. Yay and so followed the direction of cable car and found the boarding station. But alas! The queue is an hour long and Mr Love is not in the mood to queue up.

So we took a selfie here and decided to make our way back to the apartment. This ends our halfhearted attempt to go see sunset from N Seoul Tower.

Long queue