The Reality

(1) Morning drink of choice / (2) I love living on metro line #2
(3) The Ewha Campus Complex (ECC) / (4) Traditional Korean food is the best
(5) View from our balcony / (6) The infamous 호밀팥 patbingsoo is actually that good
(7) Eating out because cafeteria food sucks / (8) Baozi because sometimes I miss the taste of home
(9) My latest addiction to this milk tea / (10) Cafeteria food that actually wasn't too bad
(11) Banchan for dinner lol / (12) Pillowcase

Life isn't like the dramas here in Seoul. I love Korean food but somehow once you're actually living here, eating three decent (and decently priced) meals a day becomes the day's biggest challenge. There's no separate stall for the shower in the bathroom so everything gets wet when you shower. Transfers on the metro can take what seems like miles of walking (unlike in Hong Kong where transfers just require you to cross the platform). Apples and oranges can go up to $4 each. There's no wifi on campus. The office of global affairs forever stresses you out by making you register for classes on the first day of classes (wtf?) and throwing you confusing deadlines with ambiguous instructions and refusing to reply to any of your emails asking for clarifications. Everyone thinks you're Korean just because you're East Asian. 8AM Korean classes. Song Joongki visits the cafe you were next to just two hours after you leave.

But despite all that, I love living here. 

Really.