Here comes the day four of my Korea Trip,
and you never will be able to guess what they planned in for us for this day – and it's FACIAL!
Well, I got really excited for this because I have never expected myself to be doing facial in another country,
and furthermore, facial = walking out with bareface & red spots!! heh
And for this time, it's not walking out and heading home to hide, but it was facing 20 odd new strangers hahahah
Anycase, it was not as bad as i thought, I'll elaborate later!
We started off with a breakfast at our resort,
and halfway through our meal, it begun to snow!
I could see some of us instantly trying to gobble down the food in due to head out for snowy pictures, including myself, Geez
this was the view i had when i entered, not snowing yet..
And then we headed outside, you can see the white snow in this picture!
And we do have the really-freezing-but-trying-to-post-cool-and-good-for-the-pictures look, don't we? heh
my gloves was in the luggage, and I think after this shot i was thinking in my head, " why did i even put my hand out -.-"
Time to bid farewell to our lovely resort once again, we are heading back to Seoul today!
The second part of the day was pretty interesting,
we got to visit the filming set of the famous Korea dynasty drama, Dong Yi (同伊, 동이) and it was such an eye-opener.
We had quite a drive into this area (Yong-in MBC drama set) that has absolutely no sight of any city buildings,
and it seemed as though we were kinda in a rural part, peaceful and quiet.
It was just amazing, you feel as though you are living in another country, and it felt pretty surreal to mel!!
The only thing that i kinda regretted was not watching the show before i came here in fact,
i would really appreciate it a 101% more than I went (though i was already very impressed by the place)! ;(
Us dropping off, looked sunny, but we were freezing!
snap shots printed along the way, those were snap shots of scenes of shows filmed here before.
Yes, us walking towards the set, that's just a glimpse of the place!
a good background for a group shot
and this was the entire group of us, from 5 different countries!
as you can see, once we head up, it's gonna be another world!
here we were!
This place just totally blew me off with its architecture and probably just how the whole area cum its location..
spot no cities at all, and the woman in purple at top is fiona, we are all heading up for a better view.
And this was the exact view upon standing right at where Fiona stood. Amazing isn't it?
Completely like a whole new world, i'm just lacking of the appropriate outfit that's all heh.
We walked furtherdown to another part,
and here was the famous filming ground with a good view of the palace.
this is the screenshot of one of the scenes in Dong Yi, the best i can find.
WEEE! I was here too!! *star-place struck*
the main actor for the show, which i heard he has a good man role in it, no wonder Caitrin loves him so much! ;p
and this! another scene..
I was here too!! Just that it was another room with a different setting. hehehe.
So yes, i'm gonna start watching Dong Yi!!
Read the synopsis and saw clips of it at youtube, seems like a pretty good show with a great story line and stunning actors/actresses.
And hope i'm able to relive the memory of my trip! teehee
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After having the palace tour, we headed to this cosy lil restaurant named San Chae Chon,
and it was a lunch particularly introducing mountain vegetables, and we tried a pretty good range of vegetables cooked in different ways.
Lunch after was a visit to KINTEX, which is Korea International Exhibition area (something like our Singapore Suntec City Convention),
and our trip was planned to coincide with one of the annual biggest tradeshows – Gyeonggi International Travel Mart.
Glad to have the opportunity to attend a tradeshow there,
and the way they organised it was pretty similar, just that they had really interesting activities for us to do at many of the little booths.
Took a shot with the tradeshow girl!
They all look so gracious and demure and i think Singapore's tradeshow should hire such girls in fact,
i bet it will draw a larger crowd! heh
one of the booths that i had joy sitting at, we got to design our own rice cake!
everything can be eaten.
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MY DESIGN – a bed of roses!
spent 100% concentration on that 10 minutes on this, so proud of it!!:p
And this is a famous rice wine in Korea, that is supposedly nicer and milder than Soju.
Best thing is that it's not expensive too, less than SGD$5 if im not wrong, should try this than soju!
Think the koreans pronounce this as "Bar-car-li"
caught these two korean lil kids talking, so adorable!
And we were done, went off with a bag of souvenirs, and a polariod of ourselves!
spotted riot on the way back, and it was for Hyundai actually,
heard it was about Hyundai retrenching their workers. ;\
And here comes the FACIAL!
We went to this place named the Skin Anniversary, one of korea's largest beauty corporations,
and i think it's something like Jean Yip in Singapore
It has a range of makeup services, facial etc, plus i heard a lot of famous korean artistes go there for facial too!
the wall of fame, signed by those who patronized the store!
RAIN!!!!
can't remember her name, but she's gorgeous!!
so professional and so cool, they were standing behind each screen waiting for us to do our scans.
And the facial room
Well, no pictures were taken during the facial, but it was sooooooooooo comfortable & relaxing!
To be honest, I think our facial here is pretty on par with their standard (i mean afterall, they are known for beauty and such),
and probably because it's a big group, they didn't really do extraction for us, more on massage.
The only thing that i think Singapore's beauty parlour for facial should improve to make it the best,
is to incorporate a longer facial massage whenever we girls go for our session!
I think that would really make the session so much more look-forward to, and much more comfortable, don't you think so?!
Please say yes, and I hope some facial place (in particular my facial place) might happen to chance that you readers agree with that,
and help incorporate that into the session in future, hahahaha :p
And, I think they put BB cream at the last step and that was why my skin looked ready for heading out though it was bare,
but guess what?
They had make up services at the ground floor and make up artist to beautify us!
it was pretty hilarious, cuz i think she was asking what kinda make up i want (in korean and sign language),
so i didn't know how to answer, and saw this Kim Tae Hee poster above me.
Well, she's a super famous star there so i took the easiest way, just pointed to her that and said "Kim Tae Hee's make up". Jeez.
Ahhh, didn't manage to take a shot of myself after the make up,
but it was nice!! very natural and i'm trying to refresh her makeup techniques in my head ever since i got back,
and use it for my make up days too. heh
Anyways, the facial was awesome, and i really enjoyed it,
you can try it if you head there too, just have to book an appointment in advance! 
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By the time we ended facial (which took about one half hour),
we were in fact back in Seoul already, so we headed to the city Myeong dong in due for a good dinner at Bulgogi Brothers (불고기브라더스)!
The guide mentioned that it's a famous chain in Korea,
and always full-house!
Yeap! known for the beef, and yes, it's a MUST-TRY in Korea!
Excellent tasting marinated beef i must say, the taste is just different and kinda sweet, but two thumbs up for it!
Last but not least,
if you recognise this building, yes, it's opposite doota!
And we are at Dongdaemun area- the famous shopping district <3
Definitely a place for clothes, and though MyeongDong has more beauty outlets,
but you can still find them at Dongdaemun area, and it's pretty accessible via the subway! 
Tha's all for Day 4, folks!
Will continue for the next day again
