Did you know the K-pop song, "Gangnam Style"? The Gangnam street is close to my hometown, so I spent lots of my time in there. I graduate elementary, middle and high school near Gangnam street. I had good memories about the place. Therefore, I want to introduce some favorate places in Gangnam St..
1. Kyobo Tower Book Store
Kyobo Tower Book Store is one of the biggest book stores in Korea. In there you can enjoy reading various books including new books. Moreover, there are some cafes in the building, so you can enjoy the tea or coffee with books. In Korea, Books are not expensive compare to the U.S.. You can buy books what you want with good price, too! The picture below is the Koybo Tower, it designed by Mario Botta, one of the famous architure. The striped columns are symbol of his art.
2. Street Foods
There are some street foods at Gangnam st. like a food truck. When I was high school student, I really liked that foods! (In fact, I like it now.) The representive street food is a DDukbokggi, which is made of rice cake, spicy sauce and sugar. It is not healthy, but it tastes good.^^ And it is known that many girls favorate food. In Austin, I sometimes make DDukbokggi at home when I miss the street foods.
3. Korean Restaurant, KangKangSulae
The Korean Restaurant, KangKangSulae is one of my favorate restaurants. My family usually went there on a special day. The restaurant is famous for Korean royal court foods, but I recommend Korean BBQ which is a little different from nomal Korean BBQ. It is kind of royal court style, and it is delicious.
4. SAMSUNG main building
There are Samsung cop. main builings in Gangnam st.. You can see that the building is seldom turned off. It seems that people in the builing always work until late night. There are small mall under the building, you can experience Samsung products in there.
I agree that the books in the US is so expensive.. Also, I have to say that I enjoy the street food in my hometown too. I miss them so much TAT
ReplyDeleteWOWWW!!! I would like to go to Korea. Actually, I have planned to be there about on the end of May. Your recommended places are very good so,I may visit there. Thank you Dong :))
ReplyDeleteMany people say that Korea and Taiwan are very similar, I think will visit Seoul in one day. Also I expect you can introduce more about street food in the future.
ReplyDeleteI did not know that Gangnam is a street name in Seoul! It seems very interesting. If I could visit Seoul someday, definitely I would go to this street. This post made me think about Korean food. I have never tried Korean food, but I would like to try it. Thank you for this introducing!
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