Welcome to Seoul / 도착!
Jeju Air from Tokyo to Seoul
We flew Jeju Air from Tokyo to Seoul. The onboard service was efficient and friendly and we departed right on time. Once I sat down and pulled my seatbelt tight, I began thinking of the tragic Jeju Air accident in Muan that had happened only 2 months earlier. I was a little nervous every time we hit some turbulence and especially during the landing in foul weather. I knew that the chances of something bad happening was almost zero. But watching that crash footage on the news left impressions on me that logical reasoning had no power to erase.
Looking at the faces of the young flights attendants in the jump seats facing me, I wondered if they knew any of the crew onboard Flight 2216. I wondered if the pilots knew each other. I worried about them. After a bit of a rough landing in heavy rain and gusting crosswinds, the plane rolled up to the gate and we walked off into the airport. The flight attendants smiled and thanked us. For some reason, it all felt a little strange. Maybe I was just tired.
Our house in Seoul
Our 19th floor apartment in Sungin-dong is warm and spacious with a big sunny window looking west over the city. We have 2 queen sized beds, a couch and coffee table as well as little kitchen with laundry machine. The floors are heated (best Korean invention). Sungin-dong Airbnb
Dinner with Minu
Minu! For our first meal out, my old friend and coworker took us for BBQ chicken and beers in the neighbourhood. I have known Minu since the early days of Pearl Diver when he was a cook in my kitchen on his working holiday visa from Korea. We meet up every time I come here and I am always happy to see him. For some reason, we always end up eating chicken! And it is always delicious! We have already discussed our next chicken meal : 닭한마리 (kind of a soup that has a whole chicken in it). 🐓 🐓🐓
An afternoon trip turned up some real treasures at Gimbab Records. I’ll post about music later…
I noticed a bit more of a “tense” atmosphere recently as well on my flight back from Atlanta, in small Mitsubishi plane, similar to theone recently that flipped over at Pearson. Lets just say the flight attendants did not have to remind anyone twice about securing their seatbelts.
Nice light in the room..I love the cloths washing machine right under the cooktop. Reminds me of our first house where we had a galley kitchen and had all of the large appliances in that one area, cooktop, washer, dryer, fridge, built in oven etc…was efficient.
Great to see Minu…amazing guy…loved his Korean army style staff meals. Did you happen to grill up the “Pope’s Nose”…i wonder what the Koreans call it.
Yeah..like a Euro kitchen. Smart design. I would do the same thing if I built my own little place. Pope’s nose?? Lol is that the Polish expression? Is it the cartilage on the chicken breast? I like that crunchy part. This was mostly wing meat i think…some boneless some with bone. Choice of 3 marinades. Real charcoal, very tasty! Always happy to eat chicken with Minu.