You may have seen on Instagram or Facebook that I took a little trip to the coast last weekend. Welllllllll, it was AMAZING.  This trip came about as the perfect combination of schedule and timing.  I have a lot to say, so I’m going to break this into several parts.  Today is just an overview (other posts coming soon).

Part Two: The Sights and Tourist Attractions

Part Three: The Food

Part Four: The Nightlife (Coming Eventually :-))

Part Five: Accomodations/Transportation (Coming Eventually :-))

This past weekend, I visited Yeosu . Yeosu is a very small city of just 300,000 at the faaaaaaaar southern coast of Korea, just under 3 hours from Seoul by KTX train. The cost is around 47$ one way. There are buses available. They take 4.5 hours and cost 30-35$.

 

Yeosu is a very spread out city, but most of the action happens around Yeosu Expo Station and Lee Sun Shin Plaza. You can easily walk around here. While there are public bikes available to rent for 1,000W per hour, you need a Korean phone number and knowledge of Korean to use the machines.

There is a Rail Bike located just outside of the city, around 6,000W by taxi from Lee Sun Shin Plaza. Around Yeosu Expo Station, there is Hanhwa Aqua Planet, Odongdo, and the Cable Car from Jasan Park.

Yeosu is a very quiet city, but gorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgeous! It is perhaps my favorite ocean side city in Korea, even better than Busan. Since it’s small, it’s very quiet and there’s not much party, but there is VERY beautiful scenery.

A friend offered me a part time job working an English festival on Saturday morning. My friend, his other co-workers, and I all headed down to Yeosu on Friday night. We took the KTX from Yongsan Station and stayed at the Elena Hotel. The Elena Hotel is not right in the downtown tourist area, but a short 5,000W taxi ride from Yeosu Expo Station.  It is next to the main nightlife area, Yeoseo-dong. The nightlife is literally right behind the hotel. Lots of fried chicken and meat restaurants here. The bigger restaurants all have English included on the menu.

On Saturday, I woke up early to work the English Festival at the Yeosu Community Center. The bf came down from Seoul that morning while I was working. He arrived as we finished by 1 PM and off we went on our first mission: FOOD.

Yeosu is famous for seafood, seafood, SEAFOOD! There are many types of seafood available, and more on that later. You know I don’t spill the tea that easily.

My boyfriend actually was born and grew up in Yeosu. He moved to the nearby city of Gwangju when he was 16, so this was a nice trip back for him. First, we headed to one of his childhood favorites…..

Part Two comes later this week!