Bukchon and Samcheong-dong Part 1

For a different change of scenery, Soojeong decided to take me to an area near Gyeongbokgung Palace that is full of traditional homes and little shops. We actually visited two areas; one being Bukchon and the other being Samcheong-dong. These were two areas that fit my taste. Bukchon had a lot of old style houses that people still live in to this day. Of course, most of these houses are owned by wealthy people and they are a lot different than they were hundreds of years ago. Along the streets leading up into the neighborhoods were shops that I think my brothers would have liked a lot. There was everything that you could want; art galleries, clothes, food, cafe's, jewelry, and little museums. I think that Seoul must be the cafe capital of the world, because there are so many per square mile that I can't count them all. I like that though. There are cafe's with open veranda's with views of the city, artsy modern cafe's, and even cafe's made up like Victorian England homes. When we got past all of the shops and into the neighborhood's, it really surprised me. I thought to myself, "this is the kind of the place that people dream of finding when they come to Korea". These first few pictures are just of Bukchon and the neighborhoods around it. Part two of this post will be of Samcheong-dong