Final Reflection: Coming into this trip, I honestly didn’t know exactly what to expect besides the fact that we would be visiting companies, universities, and cultural sites throughout South Korea. Looking back now, it’s crazy to think about how much we managed to do in less than two weeks, trust me we were exhausted by…
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End of and Era
I am so sad to say that this is my final blog. I loved the two weeks I spent in Korea and it has become a favorite memory. I can’t wait to go back one day. We got back to the states last Friday and things are so different here. It’s louder, there are tips…
Day 11: Almost Done
Thank you for bearing with me with my delayed posts. Let’s talk about our last full day in Korea (Thursday, May 14). TOPIS Our first stop was to head back to City Hall to learn about Seoul TOPIS, or Seoul Transport Operation & Information Service. After experiencing the efficient public transportation in Seoul, we finally…
Day 10: Back to Seoul
I sincerely apologize for the delay in writing this post (and the next posts for the last few days of the trip). By this point, my exhaustion was catching up with me, and I was also trying to make sure my group’s presentation got done on time, as well as trying to make the most…
Day 11: TOPIS
Today started off early as we headed back to Seoul City Hall, which was nice because I really enjoyed visiting it the first time. This time, however, we specifically went to the TOPIS headquarters, which is located inside Seoul City Hall. TOPIS stands for Seoul Transport Operation and Information Service, and it serves as the…
Seoul Many Memories
Day 11 and Departure Today was my final day in Korea, which honestly feels crazy to say. I can’t believe we’ve been here for almost two weeks already. It feels like we just got here, but at the same time it also feels like we’ve done enough in the last two weeks to fill an…
Departure Day
Today was finally the day we were leaving Korea. It felt strange waking up knowing the trip was officially coming to an end. I got up around 8 a.m. and spent some time hanging out with V before we went upstairs to get breakfast. While eating, I kept thinking about all the Pokémon keychains and…
Last Day in Seoul
Today was our last full day of activities in Korea, and it was also the day of our final presentations. It honestly felt strange knowing the trip was coming to an end because it felt like we just arrived. We started the morning by visiting TOPIS at Seoul City Hall. TOPIS is the transportation management…
Back to Seoul
Today we headed back to Seoul, but before leaving we had one more exciting stop: the Hyundai Motors plant. After finishing packing, I headed downstairs and we left for the day. Before the tour, we stopped for an early lunch. I had bulgogi along with several side dishes that I wasn’t completely sure what they…
Seoul Speed Ahead
Day 10: Today we sadly left Pohang, but we were heading back to Seoul. Before getting back to Seoul though, we had a really exciting stop planned, Hyundai Motor Company. We started by visiting the museum and learning more about Hyundai’s history. After that, we got to actually tour the factory itself and see how…
The Other City of Steel
Day 9: Today we started our day by meeting up with some of POSTECH’s student ambassadors, who led us on small group tours around the entire campus. One thing I really liked was their GROW building and how they encourage students to start their own startups and ideas. They even had spaces designed for students…
:( Last Day in Korea
This whole trip has been so memorable, and I have enjoyed every single moment of it so far. But, today is the last one, which means my last blog of the trip. Are you going to miss me? Our final day started off again with another trip to the Seoul City Hall. But, this time…
Moving Back to Seoul
Today we are heading back to Seoul the place where this whole trip started. Earlier today we went on a visit of the Hyundai Museum which was really interesting. We were able to see the first car that Hyundai exported that was actually the Ford brand as well as their first signature car that Hyundai…
A Preview of Postech
This morning was a little rough as it was a bit of an earlier wakeup call and I was sleeping like a rock. I went downstairs without breakfast and immediately got on the bus to go visit a school that we are partnered with here in Korea Postech. We arrived on campus which was actually…
Welcome to Pohang
This morning we were supposed to wake up at five. We were told that there would be an alarm to wake us so we thought we wouldn’t need to set one, but we were mistaken. My group and I woke up at like 7 missed breakfast and then immediately went on a walk to see…
Becoming Buddhist
Today was so interesting. We started the day by departing from Seoul to go to our one-night Temple stay at a Buddhist Temple. It was a great train ride that I spent most of the time sleeping on and beautiful bus ride through the Mountains until we arrived at the Temple. We then went on…
Steel Mill!!!!
Today, we headed back over to Postech to do a tour of their campus. They have a bunch of students who work with a lot of foreign exchange students and help them out, so we split up into a couple of different groups with different students and got to walk all around campus. My group’s…
Postech
Today was Monday, so officially we have had a full week of our trip! Today we went to visit the campus of one of the universities in Korea, POSTECH. Postech recently partnered with Pitt, so we were kind of acting as ambassadors at Pitt. We listened to a presentation all about Postech, met a grad…
Golgusa Day 2 & Tombs
Today was an early day to wake up! yay. Our wake-up time was 5 am, which might’ve been the earliest time that I’ve ever woken up. We first had morning chanting with the monks, which involved standing up and kneeling down while the monks were saying something in Korean. I found it very interesting that…
Golgusa Temple
Today we had a little more traveling, and this time we are headed out of Seoul and into a new city! We started the day off by getting to the train station, and got on the train to Busan. We weren’t going to Busan, but getting off at an earlier stop at Gyeongju. One thing…