Last full day in South Korea! We started our day by taking a long bus ride to an Oil Park where we planned on touring. Upon arrival, it seemed a bit empty, and apparently it was closed for tourism. We had to be flexible and adapt, so we decided to walk around the Oil Park…
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DMZ & Baseball
Today was one of my favorite days of the trip! We started by taking a bus ride to the area of the DMZ, the Demilitarized Zone, between North and South Korea. Before starting our tour, we had lunch at a restaurant where we had a soup that was greens, hotdogs (and various other meats), and…
Military & Mountains
Our day started by meeting in the lobby and taking our coach bus north, to Camp Casey. We met outside of the camp to meet the two Pitt Alumni who would be showing us the area. As soon as we got off the bus, we got our identities verified with our passports. We then got…
Views and Foods
Slept in! I got to have some great rest and I woke up around 11:15am this morning. We had the option to hike (~6:20am) or sleep in and go Namsan Tower (~12:00pm)- I chose the tower. It was actually my second time at the tower because I went with two friends a few days prior…
City and Coasters
I got a good night’s rest and woke up around 8:30am to shower and head to breakfast. Then, our group met in the lobby and headed to Bukchon Hanok Village. This was a very interesting area. It used to be the place that the sons and daughters of the royal family lived, after their father…
Rainy Day in Seoul
Good morning! I woke up around 8:15 to shower and head to breakfast where I had eggs, pho, rice, and more. Our group met at the lobby around 9:30 to head to Yonsei University. We had to take two buses and a subway ride to get there. It then started to rain on and off….
Taekwondo in Seoul
Woke up ready to do some Taekwondo! I had breakfast at the hotel and tried the Pho Bar here for the first time (It was very good). We then departed as a group to go to our Taekwondo class. I have never done any form of karate before, so it was a bit foreign to…
Cars, Cruises, and Cuisine
Our day started with a long bus ride to the Hyundai factory where we got a full behind the scenes tour of the production process. The facility is huge and has many workers. We were first greeted and sat to listen to a company representative talk to us about Hyundai. We were then led to…
3, 2, 1 Drop!
What an exciting day we had today. I learned more about yogurt and elevators than I ever thought I’d know. Our day started around 8:30am when we met our tour guide Jinny in the lobby and got on the bus. We took a bus ride to Fredit which would be our first company tour of…
Ancient Fortress’ & Shopping
I woke up bright and early this morning after a long night sleep to a great view of the Gangnam District that we are staying in. We departed from our hotel around 8:15am and took a bus ride to Suwon where we got to explore an ancient fortress. The fortress had great views of the…
First Glimpse of Korea
What an action packed first day in South Korea! Our travel journey started by arriving to the University of Pittsburgh at 12:00pm on May 9th and it ended with us departing our plane in South Korea at 4:00am May 11th- a long day! Once we arrived in Korea, we hit the ground running. We met…
Pitt Goes Seoul-o
Hello! My name is Aaron DeNardo and I’m a freshman in the business school at the University of Pittsburgh. I will be studying abroad in South Korea as a part of the Plus3 Program offered at Pitt. I am a person who loves taking advantage of every opportunity that I am provided to develop myself…