Last full day in Korea! We started the day off with a visit to Seoul’s TOPIS (Transport Operation and Information Service) after breakfast. It is located around the City Hall, and was very neat, On the way there, we did pass by Seoul’s mayor (we believe) giving some sort of speech. Not too sure what…

Currently, I write this blog post with odd hands as I wait for my press on nails (matching with Emma) to fully set… sorry, mom. I got nails in Korea. Sue me. Shorter post today! Today we left Pohang, and for breakfast Kali and I got some rice cakes one last time, as she a)…

Today, we had plans to tour the entirety of the POSTECH campus and see more of the POSCO Steel Mills. As I mentioned in my last blog, POSTECH is a very small school in terms of enrollment/current students, but has quite a large campus (supposedly about 3x as big as Pitt). We got a glimpse…

Today, we visited POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology), which was founded by a steel company called POSCO here in Pohang. Something that really stood out to me was that despite the scenic differences, there’s quite a bit of similarities between Pittsburgh and Pohang! POSTECH is definitely smaller in terms of class sizes, has…

We’ve made it to Pohang! Today was an earlier start, and at the temple I woke up at 5:00 in the morning. Typically, this is on brand, but I had actually gotten much more sleep compared to the last couple of days (going to bed at maybe 8:40, 9:00 in the evening? Not terrible). A…

Finally going to bed early, tonight! We started our day off by packing the rest of our stuff really quickly, getting breakfast, and then checking out. We’ll be back in Seoul on Wednesday, and our current location is the Golgulsa Temple in Gyeongju. We went to Seoul Station to take a train to Gyeongju; the…

We had quite a long day this time around. Charter bus was back (different driver), which was nice, because I was oddly tired pretty much all day and needed the little breaks in between locations. We started out with the DMZ. I’ve gone before, but it was interesting to be able to see it again….

Day started off pretty standard, this time around, but now we had a charter to take us around rather than having to do public transport. As grateful as I am to be able to travel efficiently using the subway lines for cheap, I’ll admit, the walking is a little tiring! We started off with Suwon…

Quite a busy day again! For Day 3 of our trip to Korea, we had a couple of more business-type events occurring. I started the day waking up to the wondrous time of 5:30 AM, as my body, despite being fairly used to the time difference, has been on edge due to thinking about grades…

Day 2 has officially wrapped of our Korea trip! Quite a fun one. We started our day with breakfast at the hotel (a trend), to which I then followed with a coffee from one of the many convenient stores (a zero sugar sweet Americano and soy milk is a great combo; definitely recommend!), before we…

SO! To recap, we’ve been in Seoul for about a day after traveling 30+ hours from Pittsburgh to Incheon. Quite crazy, but nothing I haven’t done before! The day started like so: Saturday, at 5 AM, I wake up to the joyous sounds of marathon runners. I have finally moved out of my dorm, I’m…

Hello, world! My name is Sophie Allen, and I’m a first year at Pitt in the School of Computing and Information intent on double majoring in Information Science and Digital Narrative and Interactive Design (DNID) from Sammamish, Washington. On campus, I’m a Pitt Pathfinder, and I’m also involved in clubs and organizations such as the…