Day 9: A Closed Kitchen and Seonjeongneung
After leaving Bongeunsa, I hopped back on Line 2 and went one station over to Seolleung Station to visit Seonjeongneung. It was 2:30PM when I got to Seolleung Station and I had put off eating lunch because I had plans to eat somewhere specific. By this time, I was kind of hungry, weak and 멍 from not eating but not as much as I was earlier. I find that once you get over that initial hungry phase, you don’t feel it as much anymore. At any rate, one of places I put on my itinerary early in the planning stages of my trip was this ramen restaurant called Red Kitchen. Being a fan and listener of K-pop, one of the groups I like is 카라 (Kara) . They are super cute and their music is fun to listen to. One of the members of the group is Nicole Jung whose mom happens to be the owner of Red Kitchen. I saw Red Kitchen and Nicole’s mom being featured on Korean TV once so that’s how I knew. The program gave a tour of the restaurant and showed signed pictures of Kara all over the restaurant as well ...