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The walk from Coffee Prince to the Free Market took me across parts of Hongik University which is an art-centric University and for a Saturday afternoon, the area looked like a regular school day as the streets were busy with people. It had me confused as to whether there was a special school event going on in the area or whether this was just a typical Saturday in the life of a Seoul student. In addition to the university students, I saw a lot of pre-university school students in the area also with their uniforms on. I heard stories about the pressures placed on Korean kids to do well academically and how they would study non-stop from morning until night. After school, parents would enroll their kids in all sorts of lessons and academies to further improve their chances of standing out amongst the competition. While travelling around town at night, I saw young school kids in their uniforms out and about in the evening hours and it made me think why aren’t these kids at home resting o...

Today was Saturday and there were a couple of events going on that I wanted to check out which determined my schedule for the day. The first was the Free Market in Hongdae that happens every Saturday and the other was a fireworks show along the Hangang River. While I always had plans from the beginning to check out the Free Market, I was never all that serious about visiting The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince Cafe where they filmed the MBC Drama of the same name, though I always had thoughts to. I watched the drama during its run on MBC and found it very enjoyable and thought they used really great music throughout the drama. It had been several years however since it aired so my enthusiasm wasn’t the same now as it was then. I found a renewed vigor to visit the place however after researching and finding that it was located in the near vicinity of the Free Market which I was going to visit anyways. By reading various blogs and using Google and Daum Maps, I wrote down instructions on ho...