an interesting and tiring day.....

It's saturday and L's off from school. We woke up late but managed to do something for the day. We went to Daejeon, one of the big city here in South Korea. Daejeon is home to Daedeok Valley, a cradle for high-tech industry, where Daedeok Science Town, the best R&D park in Korea, is located. It houses Korea's leading science and technology think-tank and research institutes. Daejeon is easily accessible from any place in Korea as it is the hub of national transportation, linking the whole country from east to west, and from north to south.

As we reached the main city I was overwhelmed by what I saw, massive apartment buildings all the over the place. These apartments towered over each other, so huge and amazing how it was done! That's one thing here in Korea, families live in an apartment complex instead of a single family houses. To think they can't rent an apartment unless they have a key money of $30,000. Yes, you read it right folks, they need to pay big chunk of money to rent an apartment and pay montly for whatever the cost, say $50 - $100 a month. That's why most young people live with their parents until they can afford to rent, or they will just stay in a motel.

Ofcourse the reason why we travelled one and a half hour is to see the shopping areas. We thought we'll find one near the bus station like in Kwangju, but we have to take a taxi for 5- 10 min to reach one of the big department store. Lotte department store, is like our regular mall in the Philippines. Actually according to what we read there are five shopping store in Daejeon, there's Lotte, E-mart, Galleria, Costco and Walmart. But since this is a big city and we don't know where these stores are, we settled ourselves to Lotte. We enjoy our shopping, had our lunch at Burger King, yeah we found one and L's glad! You know when we're out we prefer to eat in a fast food, it's fast, easy and cheap :)) We keep exploring the store, one thing that caught my attention is the rest room. It's kind amusing to me so I took a picture while seating at the lobby. It's colorful and clean. There's even a small lobby inside too, that the teenagers are just sitting and hangging around, with the music on. I haven't seen one like this even in the US .

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Outside the mall there's a small car show and a concert, ofcourse singer is singnging in korean. We're about to leave when he suddenly sung All by myself so we stayed for a while and listen, he sings good ha! After that we just continue walking, explore the place until our feet get tired. We find the place interesting and we decided we'll comeback again next time....