As it was Korean Chuseok Day on Tuesday, we didn't have any class. Initially my friends and I planned to visit few of the palaces on Tuesday, but we were so tired after the Moon Cake Festival gathering that all of us woke up late. So my friends decided not to go, and I had to go alone.
Firstly, I went to Deoksugung, one of the famous palace in South Korea. On other days, one needs to pay 500-1000won for entrance fee. But lucky me, I didn't have to pay a single cent because it was a national public holiday.
Deoksugung is indeed beautiful. But to my surprise there was a few western style building in it. Later on I found out that it was the Royal Museum. A place worth visiting, though many of the articles do not have English translation.
Coming out from Deoksugung I wanted to go to Namsangol Hanok Village, but ended up at Korea House. The Korea House had a display of traditional food, or was it food offered to the ancestors, I wasn't so sure. But anyway I didn't stay there for long.
Moving to my Namsangol Hanok Village (Korean Traditional Village in the Namsan Valley), I saw a huge crowd of foreigners and Koreans gathered there to watch a traditional drum performance.
The place is quite similar to the Cultural Village in Santubong, Sarawak. There's traditional houses, food, toys and the sort.
Walking around, I bumped into few of my seniors. They were "volunteered" by their language lecturers to participate in the traditional wedding ceremony. The ceremony was quite interesting, although I couldn't understand what the man was saying. It has some similarity to that of the Chinese tradition, though.
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