College Town

Monday was a national holiday here (Memorial Day), so I went exploring with one of the other interns and her friends from law school who are also here. We went to a part of town called Sinchun, which is where there are lots of universities. It fit my expectation of a Korean city. Lots of bars/restaurants etc. piled right on top of each other, and blinking neon everywhere. For those of you in/from New York, think Canal Street on steroids. We ate and then played poker at a board game cafe, which is a popular thing to do here. Basically, you go to a cafe and they have lots of board games (we played poker with monopoly money, which worked surprisingly well). Other popular forms of entertainment are norebang, which is like Kareoke but in a private room with your friends, and DVD-bang, which means you and your friends rent a room and a movie and watch it. I was advised against DVD-bang, because apparently the DVD-bang rooms are a popular destination for amorous couples whose urges are frustrated by living with their parents. Quoth my friend, "the floors are really, really gross."