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Day 14: Seoul Olympic Park

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After finishing with Lotte World, I headed for my next destination which was Olympic Park . My visit to Olympic Park was inspired entirely from the recommendation by my Lonely Planet book. The book designated it as one of the top picks for the Gangnam and Jamsil area. I was still at Jamsil Station which has 2 subway lines (Green Line 2 and Pink Line 8) running through it and needed to get from Line 2 to Line 8 so that I could take the Line 8 train one stop over to Mongchontoseong. Even though Jamsil Station is listed as a transfer point for the two lines on the map, if my memory serves me correctly, I discovered they were actually a looooooong walk apart. Sometimes the lines that converged at some subway stations like at Jongno 3-ga were relative close to each other so you didn’t have to walk very far to transfer between the lines. Other times, it was almost deceiving how they were located on the same spot on the subway map because of how far apart they actually were in real life. Th...