Soul to Seoul: Settling in

We are settling in to Seoul and finding it an amazing city, full of life, diversity and colour.

Can’t believe we have been here a week already! It just seems like yesterday that we arrived and were greeted by PK with a bottle of wine, flowers and the key to our apartment!

Our orientation to work has gone smoothly. We are set up in our office with brand new toys to play with! If all goes according to plan, we will be issued our registration cards next week. Our work dinner at ‘Once in a blue moon’, an excellent jazz restaurant, was a great night out.

We are exploring the subway and find it an inexpensive and easy way to move around the city. Taxis are good too, although in peak hour it can take forever to get short distances and when it rains it is near impossible to hail a cab! We definitely need to improve our Korean language skills.

So far our three major shopping excursions have been to E Mart (in the I’Park Mall), Lotte Mart and Namdaemun Markets (both of the later are in walking distance to our accommodation which is great). There isn’t much you can’t find here in Seoul, plenty of western brands and the local foods and products are great too.

There is so much more to do, learn and get used to...