Wowow I have a lot of photos and OCD me needs to put them in sequence ahahah anyway went to the Lantern Festival last Friday!
The festival usually lasts two weeks in November, this year it was 1 - 17 November and there's a different theme each year!! I think previous years were prettier? There were a lot of characters this time ie human faces in cartoon style haha. I've always wanted to go to the lantern festival ever since I saw photos of it online about 2 years ago! Whoohoo another dream come true~
Anyway the themes for this year were:
- 500 years of the Hanseong Baekje Period
- Ungjin Baekje Period
- Sabi Baekje Period
- Baekje's spirit of harmony
Very very Baekje-centered lolol also, went with Konrad and his Korean friend Sang Joon and his friend said "it's like my Korean history textbook come alive!" HAHA cos of the Baekje period.
We kinda entered from the wrong end I think? So we walked the festival backwards but it was a good thing too because the other side of the stream was jam packed with people!! Like they were just standing there and they couldn't move haha while we were still rather comfortable on our side - just the right amount of crowd? HAHA.
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| I like this fish one!! It was super pretty (even if looking at it now, the fish's eye freaks me out a little) |
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| This is a seal y'all. It's a mascot. For I forgot what but I saw it the other day at the subway. |
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| Oh yeah Asian Games next year @ Incheon!! |
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| Lion dance for you? HAHAHA |
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| One of the cultural artifacts from Baekje period - it's nothing as huge as this in real life!!!! |
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| The end/or rather, the beginning of the festival - but this was the end for us ahaha |
If you want to make the same innocent (but what a relief we did!) mistake as us, take the subway to Euljiro4(sa)-ga and take the exit towards Cheonggyecheon (I forgot what number lol) and then walk towards the start of Cheonggyecheon (City Hall direction). Ah ok what lousy directions I'm giving - take a chance and explore!! #yolo
LOL.
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