Artistically talented people have their stores set up here

You can get a portrait drawn for 10,000₩ :-)

☆ Stylenanda Flagship Store in Hongdae ☆

The place is 3 storeys and really nice. Didn't fulfill my personal goal of bringing something (anything) back from the store, but we did have many attempts at the free photobooth /ahjumma alert/ A piece of advice: have makeup on if you want your pictures to turn out decent o r z /o\

Tea break at a little takeout eatery that we chanced upon ~

The chicken fritters was so good we ordered a second plate and then there's our usual plate of kimbap but this is the only photo I have bc too hungry. ╮(╯▽╰)╭

☆ Hakata Bunko ☆

Found this place during my research for the trip's itinerary and have been pinning for the ramen since, thank goodness it did not let me down! Not the easiest place to find, but it's just abit of a long walk down the main street along Hongik University. There's a cafe called Hoho Myoll located just before you turn into the alley where ramen is, which serves good cheesecake - it's on my list. (︶▽︶)

The place is rly small so the queue is outside... next time I go there I'll have a rly small bag and wear thin clothes unless winter.

There's an English menu ~ but basically only 2 types of ramen are available, and we all ordered the In Ramen, which has the thicker broth. Yum yumz. ;A;

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Huge billboard at the location of the old SM Ent. building, which is nearer to the train station. The new one is located another 15-20min walk down ㅠ ㅠ

Yup here's a tree for you to imagine how big the board is. 

Park/exercise area just across the road where you may spot some fans lingering LOL.

We saw the boys that night ~ and also the next few times that we came. Memories ㅠㅠㅠㅠ

A/N: This post has so many pictures I thought I was going to die editing ㅍ_ㅍ

Edae is good for shopping ~

@eunphoric wants to buy everything there. HAHA.

I will frequent there for those few shops selling ₩6,000 shirts

& the shoe shop owned by a nice ahjusshi

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[ Yeouido Park ]

Wanted to head to Hangang River but we alighted at Yeouido station...

And apparently Yeouido Park and Yeouinaru are two very different places OTL.

Ended up having a picnic there with kimbap, takoyaki & Starbucks cheesecake \O/

One of Myeongdong's famous street food I guess - chocolate & yoghurt super tall icecream~

The weather was sunny as seen but the temperature wasn't high so it was cooling with the wind & all. 

We were lucky to be in Seoul in time with EXO's comeback and they were holding fansigns so we headed to the M2U Records in Myeongdong to get our albums & join the draw to win entry to the fansign. Every other fan was buying tons of the album so we had to be really really lucky to actually win. The album costs 17,000₩ at 'branded' stores like M2U and Synnara but sells at 13,000₩ at other normal local stores.

The first two fansign events were happening on the day that we landed, and we made a spur of the moment decision to fly (not literally) to Daejeon for the 2nd fansign of the day that was starting at 7pm.

Shall post some photos of the album later~ and some songs. 真爱饭 (me) has listened to everything on repeat and officially love the entire album. It's picture + 诚意 overloaded may I add. The lyrics were handwritten by the boys and I am a sucker for things like that. Spent our train ride deciphering who wrote what (◡‿◡✿)

Korail KTX to Daejeon (대전), which took us about an hour and cost 50sgd for a two-way trip. Talk about being broke on the first day of vacation. (The seats are 10x more comfortable than AirAsia though. ¬_¬)

Arriving in Daejeon~

The boys were late for about an hour and a half due to traffic which wasn't unexpected bc they were parading in their promotion schoolbus from Busan. It was hot and tiring to stand our ground in the crowd - this one was an open fansign so people could watch even if they weren't one of the 100 lucky fans picked to go up on stage and get their albums signed. Those 100 get chairs to sit on in the middle of the park like VIPs, 부럽다 ㅠㅠ Was pretty restless and frustrated towards the last hour of waiting, but I guess we should count ourselves lucky bc the fansigns over the past weekend saw 6000+ fans. ?!

Sad life when someone is looking into your camera but it is not a DSLR. ㅠㅠ

Over the next few days, we would conclude that 1) Yixing should be on everyone's bias list because he is such a sweetheart and king of fanservice, 2) Kris is seriously not photogenic and we can't find the right word to describe him and 3) Lotteria, whose burgers might beat McDonalds, should be every fangirl's best friend.