Seoul

We spent our first night in South Korea in a wonderful little hostel in Itaewon. That's an international (though mainly American) strip of restaurants and bars on the outskirts of Seoul. We grabbed some food and hung out in the hostel. There we met an Italian girl who was on work experience in Korea and a German guy who absolutely hated it in Korea and was hiding in the hostel until it was time to go home. He was pretty sick and some people had been pretty rude to him so he was just left complaining. He did give us a taste of some really nice rice wine while we were there. Later that night we met a really annoying guy who was hitchhiking around the world. I think he'd make me hate hitchhikers. He just took some of the rice wine and then said thanks but afterwards which was pretty presumptuous and then said he would just use my laptop rather than go to the computers which were like 5 feet away. Then he spoke about his hitchhiking as if it were just so impressive a way of life but he didn't sound like he ever did anything nice for anyone else. The guys in the hostel were really nice though and even brought us snacks while we were chatting and watching films.