Day 1: Gyeongbokgung
So after my aunt saw me to Dongnimmun Station, I headed for Gyeongbokgung which is one of the Royal Palaces in Seoul. I found that much of Seoul’s subway system was almost identical to how I remembered Tokyo’s. All you have to do is swipe your T-Money card over the reader when entering the station and always remember to swipe out when you are leaving the station or you’ll end up paying a lot. When swiping out, it will display how much you have remaining on your card. I found Seoul’s subway service to be very excellent and extremely affordable relative to Toronto. My informal gauge of how clean subway services are is by using the washrooms and I found them to be very clean at all stations I went to. One of the funny things I noticed about public washrooms in Korea is that sometimes instead of soap dispensers you will find communal bars of soap attached to a rod. All subways signs are in English and when riding the trains, the next station is announced in multiple languages including En...