The Geumsan Insam(Ginseng) Festival is Geumsan County’s leading festival. Geumsan County, which is located in Chungcheongnam-do province, is the largest producer of ginseng in Korea and home to a ginseng and medicinal herb market. The festival, which has been running for 29 years, is held to promote the beneficial effects of Geumsan ginseng.
This is the 1st Ginseng festival that i ever been, it was a nice experienced!!
You can see, all of the ginseng are really cheap, far more cheaper than Malaysia..
Try something there... fun!!
Took some Picture with all my ASEAN and China friends in the cultural booth.
He is my Filipino Friend that sing Filipino Song with Korean, and Dance too!!
Ha! this one are alcohol drinks, that call it Ginseng Soju!! a health wine i can say.
There do have some traditional performance, most of the older generation Korean they love that so much!!
Giant Ginseng!!
High quality of Ginseng been exhibited there.. they preserve it really well.
Ginseng Massages, special massages with ginseng Cream!!
Make your feet health, there are ginseng medicine put in the sand, so just put your feet into the sand.. ^_^
Also some motion video games provided, we all can try!! play it with your every move!!
The Small concert in the festival!!
All these are the ginseng plants.
We all learn how to get the ginseng from the ground by using some tools, need to be skillful in order to get the un-scratch ginseng from the ground.! then we take a pic with happy smile!! ^_^
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for more information you can visit here The Festival!!
But what is Asia Song Festival? it is a music festival with Asia's greatest stars and bring Asia together as a hub of cultural exchange. So, Asia Song festival is your imagination of Asia, Music and stars come true.
That's why I went to this festival!!
My others friend and me got VIP seat tickets for that concert. So, it make us go crazy and cant wait to be there. We all got the tickets from this Asia Song Festival official website ( http://asf.kofice.or.kr/l_eng/index.php ) and it is free for foreigners ( 1st come 1st serve ). We all so lucky!! ^_^
The venue was located at Seoul World Cup Stadium and the concert started on 6pm evening but we all arrived there 230pm to get our VIP seat tickets!
Seoul World cup stadium can be easily to get there by Subway station. This is the Picture when we went out of the subway station. You all can see, there are a lot of people attending that concert!! ^_^
This is the East Entrance of the world cup stadium. Can you all see the "CGV"? That is the Korea Cinema Company!!! now a day world cup stadium have Cinema, cloths store like a Department store!! Unbelievable!! ( Probably Soon, Malaysia will have it ^_^ )
This is North Entrance, all of the Fans line up and ready to get inside the stadium!!
3 of us got the VIP seat Ticket, this are the Prove!! hehe ; )
1st one, he is from Cambodia and then me following from Philippines. We all so excited.
All of them also my friends, but they got different VIP Seat. ^_^
This is the stage that all the Asia star will step on it!!
World cup stadium Score-Board!!
Before the Concert started, all of the Camera man and crew working so hard to make sure no mistake occur during the concert. You can see in the picture, he having his dinner up there!! impress ^_^
There are the Master of Ceremony for this concert, I recognized that women is the Korean Drama actress " my girl ". ^_^ Cant believe it we all saw her here.. hehe
After that, Korean Drum performance. Interesting!!
This 1st greatest Asia singer Show Luo ( 罗志祥 ) from Taiwan. He is a popular Taiwanese singer, host, dancer, and actor. Award winner Most Popular Singer award of the Singapore Entertainment Awards.
This is 2NE1, Korean music group of 4 women belong to YG Entertainment. First appearing in a Cyon commercial campaign with Big Bang for LG Telecom, their debut single "Fire" earned much popularity of forecasting birth of a large new singers group. This song " Lollipop", "Fire" and "I Don't Care" earn the 1st place in digital music award!! 6th Asia Song Festival: Best Asian Newcomer's Award!! ^_^ Below is their " I Don't Care " song they sang in Concert!!
You can hear their song here "Lollipop" ,"Fire","I Dont care"
She is Ho Ngoc Ha the most famous female singer in Vietnam. In 2008 she won the Prize of "golden Album of the year" and " the artist of the year " .
K-Otic the latest popular boy band group in Thailand comprising with 3 nationalities (Thailand, Japan and Korea). They being nominated as Thailand best artist in 2008.
Ekin Cheng Yee-Kin is a Hong Kong actor and Cantopop singer.He is a good actor and singer too!! hehe
His song..
Chris Lee, an idol among youngster in China. she had a sparkling debut by grabbing the top prize at the "Super girl" Hunan Board casting of China in 2005. Last year, she was awarded the best singer in China award at the MTV Asia award 2008.
Mihimaru GT from Japan is a J-Urban and J-pop group signed to Universal Music Japan and managed by Tearbridge Productions, a subsidiary of Stardust Promotion and Avex.Very popular in japan.. hehe
V6 special Guest from japan. !!
Special Award winner, Ruslana from Ukraine.
Gackt from Japan!! He is a Japanese musician, composer, lyricist, poet, author, actor, designer and model. His music has been a theme song for various animation and video games, such as New Fist of the North Star, Bujingai and Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII, amongst others. one of Famous singer in Japan.
Girl Generation from Korea. A popular South Korean nine-member girl group formed by SM Entertainment in 2007. Its members include (in order of official announcement) Yoona, Tiffany, Yuri, Hyoyeon, Sooyoung, Seohyun, Taeyeon (the leader) , Jessica, and Sunny. They got Cyworld Digital Music Awards: Song of the month. In 2008 they awarded " new singer award" and "high one music award" of the 17th Seoul Music Award.
Their latest popular song with amazing dance!! hhee
For their others song click here, "Genie", "Gee Gee"
Agnes Monica!! Indonesian pop singer, dancer, actress, songwriter, and producer. Her first teen album "..And The Story Goes" (2003) made her popular as a teenage singer.[1] It sold 30.000 copies only in 3 days. In 2009 she awarded "Trax FM Jakarta - The Now Generation is in Action", "Expreso, (Entertainment Program of Antv) - Kartini Modern", "Anugerah Musik Indonesia (AMI) - Best Female Pop Solo Singer", "Dahsyatnya Awards [tremendous awards] - Soloist most tremendous", "Talk Less Do More Awards from Class Mild Awards - Class Music Heroes", "Anugerah Industri Muzik, Malaysia - nomination of Malay Songs that are Open by Foreign Country Artists".
Her impressive performance!! it really amaze me!! Indonesian Singer!!
Super Junior, often referred to as SJ or SuJu, is a boy band from Seoul, South Korea formed by SM Entertainment in 2005. In 2008 their song "sorry sorry" been nominated as "hot online song" and also "Hot Performance"
"Sorry Sorry"
This is Super Junior Popular song with awesome song!!!
Big Bang!!Idol Group of 5 man belonging to YG Entertainment. They became nationally recognized idols. In 2009 they awarded "Hiwon music prize", "mobile popularity prize", "major prize" and the "best album prize" in 18th Seoul Music Award. Look like they are the best so far!! hehehe
"Last Farewell" This is Big Bang Latest Song!! ^_^
So, Next year don't miss the chance to get the VIP seat tickets for this awesome Asia Song Festival. Next year do remember to Click here to get your VIP tickets!! ^_^ http://asf.kofice.or.kr/l_eng/index.php
Feel free to leave some comments here. ^_^
About the history of this Gwanghwamun Plaza, More than 600 years ago, Gwanghwamun square was considered the venue for government buildings, with the main six government buildings straddling the square. Officials from these buildings gathered at the royal palace to discuss national affairs with the king during the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910). Since then, this area was long considered the heart of Korean politics, and it has witnessed important turning points in Korean history.
As you can see the picture below, that is the overview of the Gwanghwamun Plaza!!

Well, actually I went to the launching ceremony of Gwanghwamun Plaza with my friends ( Thai, Loas, Malaysian, Korean)!! We all really amazed about this Ceremony!! We arrived there around 6pm and I took some Pictures around that area.
Later we saw some water spray around the statue of Admiral Yi Sun-shin!! So, we curious and run to the statue. Then we saw this. Amazing!! isn't it?
There were a lot of people from nationality and also Korean waiting for the launching ceremony. There were more people than I expected!! ; )
The Stage for the opening ceremony!! It was a huge stage!!
Before launching, there was some performances and comments from celebrity about this ceremony.
This is the Korean Cultural Dance!! It was Great!!
Comments by Korean Star, Rain!! wow!!
There were some flags brought in to the stage and it was a way to invite high ranking or status personal to the ceremony!! What a grand ceremony!!
Since, the event too crowded with People. It female police need to on duty for this event!! It shown Women and Man Equality!! ^_^ Suddenly they launch the Gwanghwamun Plaza!!
So, How is it? it is amazing right? amazed all of us!!
After the launching, we took some pictures with the back ground of the Korea giant Flag!! But did you all see the person that wear Korean traditional cloth? He is the Korean music instrument musician!! I record his play. Let see it!!
Good Performance!! ^_^
This is the Back view of the stage, and you can see the Haechi is a lion-like horned creature, also known as "Haetae," which was selected as Seoul's new symbol in 2008! Cute!
Very Lucky! we met the Korea famous English show artist when we walk around the plaza!! with no doubt we straight away take pictures with here!! hehe ; )
The back view of the statue!! wow!! the fountain!!
Did you all see the big screen at the underground? It is a LCD screen and it was replying the Korea World Cup Match, the match of Korea against Italy.. Korea win the match!! ^_^
WOW!! the Night view of the fountain look far more beautiful and attractive!! hehe Because of this i decided to record it!! here is it!! enjoy!!
We all Impress!! ^_^
This is the picture we took before we all leave.. what a special moment for all of us!! If you visit Korea, do include this place in your schedule.. Nice place to visit!!
About the way to go there, it is easy. From Airport, either you come to Bus Express terminal or Seoul Station, just take subway line 5 and get off at Gwanghwamun station. Follow the underground path linking the station to the plaza. That's the way!! ^_^ Good Luck!!
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The mud is dug up near Boryeong, trucked to the Daecheon beach area, and dumped at a 'Mud Experience Land'.The mud is considered rich in minerals and used to manufacture cosmetics.
Some of the final weekend participants are foreign tourists, and especially American GIs, but most of the participants during the week are Koreans, attracted by clever marketing by the town. The town fathers and mothers discovered that the mud is more lucrative as a tourist attraction than using the muddy fields for agriculture.[2] The economy generated from the festival supports the many hotels and restaurants along the waterway and several blocks inland. There is also a great deal to see and do in the vicinity and a free tourist bus takes visitors to local sites, including an impressive coal mine and a famous Buddhist shrine.
In 2008 the festival took place between 12-20 July. In 2009 it took place from July 11-19.
So, me at there!!
Here are some of my friends that enjoy much traveling and gain crazy experienced!!
Actually,we went there with "SEM" ( none profit organization ). They subsidized some fund on this trip for all of us. You can see in the photo, we are carrying all the box to the beach. inside the box all of it are our lunch that prepared by SEM!! ^_^
The view of the Boryeong beach with concert stage!! it never happen in my home country (Malaysia)!! Cool!!
Me and the beach view.. the wave quite strong!!
This is the lunch that i talk about.. KIMPAP!! only few bite make mine stomach full!! ; )

This is Me with the color mud!! blue color!!this is the 1st time mud stick on my body and face!! cool man!!

This is the ordinary mud!! look quite ugly.. but great experienced!! ; )
After i wash my-self, i walk around and take some photo!!
See few of the foreigner playing with the mud!! they are so enjoying!!
Since they having so much fun!! i manage to grab one of them to take photo!! ; )
Take picture with color mud couple!! them look great!! keke (some how like zombie couple) ; )
The Mud Festival Mascot.. all over the mascot body with mud too!! the mud almost stick on my cloth!! ; )
The festival also provide some Mud game for kids and adult to enjoy!! the 1st one is for kids. Another one is the mud jail, you can see the small building like a jail.
stay in the jail, the mud will pour into the jail!! yahoo!! then your whole body will all over the mud!! ; )
And you also can see a lot of hot girls and cool guys there too!! ; ) ; )
Before we all leave the place, some of us take a picture together!! ; )
The map of the Boryeong beach and the information stands!!
Before leave the place, i figure out some on scratch my hand!! hehe ; )
Me and the main entrance!!
So, what do you waiting for?
Make your next Korea travel plan on next summer to Mud festival!!
You wouldnt regret!! hehe !!
Some guide how to go to the mud festival:
Seoul Express Terminal
There are 3 terminals in Seoul that you can use to get to Boryeong.
1. Seoul Express Bus Terminal (Central) --> Boryeong (Daecheon) Estimated Time:
2 hours 20 mins.
2. Dong Seoul Express Bus Terminal --> Daecheon (Boryeong)
(3 hours, 8,700 won)
3. Daecheon Terminal to Daecheon Beach
For those from Incheon Airport,
There is a bus from Incheon that directly goes to Daecheon Beach (Boryeong) but only once a day. It departs at 13:20, ticket price is 1,3400 won. However, it will be very difficult to find a ticket for this.
Other Ways to get to Boryeong from Incheon:
1. Incheon --> Cheonan Shinbu Terminal (Cheonan), then from Cheonan -->
Daecheon (Boryeong) (Estimated Time : 2 hours 30 mins, 7,400 won)
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If have any question this Mud Festival, don't hesitate to leave on comments box.
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Ceramic Village is a place that you must visit if you come to Korea. A place that you shouldn't miss!!
The name of the place is Gyeryeongsan Ceramics Village
The village is located in a narrow valley between Yuseong in Daejeon and Gongju. The valley is heavy with trees and has a small creek that runs from the mountains to the highway. The mountain towers over the valley with craggy walls rising steeply toward the sky.
Turn left off provincial highway 32 at the set first set of traffic lights coming from Daejeon after the turn off to Donghaksa, about 1km. Look for a sign that points toward Sangsin-ri and head 3km into the valley. As you come to the end of the valley, keep to the right and follow the stream past Seong-bul Hermitage (성불암).
This is the way go to the Ceramic village.
In the ceramic village, there are a lot of flowers and trees make us feel so relax.
I like the country side environment.
We really in the country side.. really nice to look around..
All of the pictures that show above are the products that they have made.. all of it so beautiful and also artistic!!
And these are the rings that made from ceramic.. amazing, right? haha
Here are some of my ASEAN friends, we took pictures together.. ^^
Do you see the bicycle on the roof of the building? This is the building that we going to enter and to make and design our own pottery inside.. Interesting!!
And we took some pictures inside the building.. we all are photoholic!! ^^
This is the place that we going to shape our pottery with two of the spinning tools.
Before we start, two of the teachers in the ceramic village do some demostration before we start to do by our-self!! haha exciting!!
Then again took a picture with others ASEAN and chinese firends.. ; )
My Loas friend, Tick made a bird.. really nice.
This is my pottery making video, haha, not skillful enough to make a good one..
But Nice experienced!! ; )
The pottery that i pointing is mine product, and got my name on the surface of the pottery!! The pottery Looking good!! ; )
The entrance of the building, me and indonesian Chinese friend..
He is the manager of this Ceramic Village!! Nice looking guy!! ; )
Me with pottery maker, they look like brother. Maybe they are brother. ; )
Actually this visit participated by 20 ASEAN students, Chinese students and Japanese students. All of us make and design a pottery our-self. Really a nice experienced for all of us!! This is the picture with all of the students, officers and the pottery makers.. ; )
I took this from the bus, they waving to us when we leave the Ceramic village..
Hope able i come here to make it again for SOMEONE THAT SO SPECIAL!! ; )
As for more information regarding the ceramic village in Korea, you all can make some comments to ask me or log to:
http://www.visitkorea.or.kr/enu/SI/SI_EN_3_1_1_1.jsp?cid=264363
Feel free to leave some comments. ; ) ^_^ ; )
This is my 1st outstation trip for my internship in KINS.
My Supervisor, Prof. Nam, Expert Bus driver and me departed from the institute on 845 am morning.
This was the bus(mobile security center) we went to Anyang city. It is not an ordinary bus as you think. Just read this tread until the end. ; )
The time before i step in to the bus. Cant wait to step on the bus. !!
This are few snapshot of Anyang City.
He is my supervisor, Prof. Nam.
He is a very kind person, he always teach me new things. I like him. ; )
This is the driver seat of the bus, you can see it has more control button than the ordinary bus.
Inside the bus has the control Unit server. The left hand side section is the power generator controller. On the right hand side upper part, it is the satellite control system. For the middle part, is the video & audio controller and for lower part, it is the Input/output controller. Well, during this Trip Prof. Nam explain about how this security system work and the functions too. Very interesting!!
This picture show the middle part of the bus, inside there like a conference room with conferencing system (video camera conferencing). During the emergency operation they able to communicate with headquarter all around the Korea. Impressive!! ; )
There was some problem at the LED screen on top of the bus, some technician went up there to fix it.
Here are few snapshots that me in the bus. ; )
Yap, this is the time to have lunch... What a great restaurant!!
We ate O li roast ( grill duck meat). Really nice and delicious!! I loving it!
Not only the meat but with a lot of side dishes all around the table.. you can see it your self!!
The one on the right hand side was the expert bus driver i mentioned. He talk a lot during the lunch.. hehe ; )
And have free ice cream after the lunch, this restaurant provide free ice cream. Must go there next time... ; )
Well, after that we went to car painter workshop that few Kilometer away the restaurant. Some bus body texts needed to change..
Before it change.
In the process of changing the texts.
After changed.. if you notice there are some korean character changed.. observe by your self.. ; )
They just spend around 45min to change the texts.. really fast..
well after that, we straight away went back Daejeon, KINS.
Haha, an extraordinary bus that i ever know.
It is just some simple experienced from the trip.
The main part for me is the understand on the security system in the Mobile security center.
I learn new thing there.. ; ) ; )
Anyang not just a city, there are a lot of interesting place to visit, click below to know more about Anyang city. ; )
http://en.anyang.go.kr/new/
I believe i will visit Anyang again!! ; )
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Period 2 months.
7:15 am we all Daejeon Interns depart from Dormitory.
and it was a rainy morning... have to bring umbrella.
then me and others ( Clyde and Pap ) went to subway station to government complex and take another bus to KINS. We arrived there 815am, wow we were so early, so, we call Ms choi(international officer) to ask what to do now.. but she said we not supposed to be such early. Then we went to KAIST ( beside KINS only) and have a tour there. poor us start our internship with visiting KAIST 1st rather than KINS. hehe
later around 10am we guide by Professor Park Assistant to his office. She can speak chinese well!! very well!!
we saw Professor Park with new hair style!! HOHO..
then i been took by a Korean to my division thats called "Emergency Preparedness & Environment division"..
And thats the building i will be always inside there for my internship.
And all of them are the professors in my division.. that all really friendly and helpful!! Some of them we met them in JeJu island before in the Mobile security Bus.
Then i been ask to take lunch with them.. we ate LengMyon.. quite ok,, it was the Baseball Restaurant near KINS.. really special.. hehe
then thats my office seat.. really nice.. but still empty.. hehe
I be assign to do research on "Robot nuclear/ radiation safety" and learn C sharp to develop their system too.. seem like i gonna enjoy more and more.
Then back to Daejeon University.. what a day..
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Hi all, I am Tan Yih Liang and my nick name is LeX. This is my first time in Korea as well as my first time tasting various kinds of Korean food. Well, I will tell you all what I feel about Korean food in this article. I will share with you my thoughts on KImchi, Samgyeopsal BBQ, Dteokbokki, and Samgyetang.
Actually, I already knew kimchi back in my home country, Malaysia and it’s the representative fermented dish of Korea. Even though I knew it, I never tried it before. The first time I tried it was during my 1st day in Korea and it was on the way to Daejeon University. Our bus stopped by at a food court and all of us ( Asean Student exchange) had dinner. During that time I was very excited to try it out, but when the KimChi touched my lips, I realized that it was cold!! And then I tasted it. It was spicy and sour. Honestly, I did not like it at all and the main reason is, it was cold!! In my country I never ate any cold dish for meal that’s why I disliked it so much. But after a month in Korea, I started to like it because the cafeteria serves Kimchi every meal and never misses it once!! No choice!! Have to taste it. Now I almost got used to it!! Anyway just want to say “chalmogosimnida” to Cafeteria officers.
As for Samgyeopsal BBQ, I tasted it during my 1st time to walk around Daejeon City. I was surprised that the restaurant served us with raw slices of pork belly meat that we grilled all by ourselves alongside with some side dishes. It was very interesting!! There were few side dishes included, sweet Corn, lettuce leaf, KIMCHI, onion with soya bean paste, salad and so on. The meat tasted great and I loved it very much!! But actually there is a proper way to taste Samgyeopsal, usually the meat is placed inside a lettuce leaf with some cooked rice, a paste made out of chili and soybean and sometimes served with large green chilies and slices of garlic, as well as a spring onion salad. Wrap it all up and place into mouth!! And WOW!! It tastes ultra best!! All this is typically accompanied with soju. Anyway, even though we have finished all the meat, some part of my stomach obviously weren’t satisfied yet!! And we plan go to eat it again next week!! OH NO, now I suddenly feel so hungry! After finishing this article I’m going to eat Samgyeopsal!!
Next, Dteokbokki is the Korean snack that can be easily found around the street. This consists of broiled sliced rice cake, meat, eggs, and seasoning. This Dteokbokki is served with red & orange color sauce. Actually the 1st time I tasted it in Korea was when I was with my friends on the way to Hana Bank and we suddenly saw several stalls with red cover. Those stalls really attracted us and we went to check it out. The shape of the rice cake looked quite weird for us. But after tasting it with the egg, fish meat and the red & orange color sauce, it tasted really good and we all loved it. Since then, almost every time we go out, we do not miss to eat Dteokbokki. It seems like it became a necessity for all of us to eat when we go out. HAHA.
Lastly, Samgyetang!! When I think about it, 1st thing that appears on my mind is an expensive Korean Ginseng. Actually, Samgyetang is a Korean soup with whole young chicken, glutinous rice and Korean Ginseng. The soup smelled like ginseng and it came with a whole chicken. The meat of the chicken is very soft and very comfortable to chew and usually after a bite of the chicken, drink some soup and eat a spoon or two of glutinous riceand ginseng. It tasted like when I’m in love with somebody, really romantic!! During that time, I went with three other girls. Luckily, they all did not manage to finish their chicken since it was a whole chicken. You know how girls are and so they gave it to me and I felt even more romantic and happier!! ARRRRR!! I thanked them very much!!
I’m almost 1 and a half month in Korea, now. I feel like all the Korean dishes that I tasted before were really interesting and tasty. I cannot wait to taste more!! Oh!! My stomach keeps knocking!! I need to go and have some dinner with all those meals that I have mentioned above!! Anyway thanks for reading!! See you soon!!
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It was really amazing, that time i really still cant believed that i in korea!! it was like a dream!!
Yup!! here are the candidates from Malaysia!! from left, Jacklyn, Alex, Ni Nyoman and LeX (me). Hehe we look great!!
And here are 20 candidates from Asean, included Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia. They all look gorgeous !! Well thats all, the 1st day in Korea. quite interesting, right?
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Thanks!! ; ) ; )
sorry for the such a late post. It is busy than I expected.
This can be consider my 1st day in Korea but this all about the room only.
The experienced of 1st day will be the next post, hopefully.
Here are the picture of my Korea Room!! what a wonderful room that i gonna stay for 9 months!!
Thanks you for you reading. please stay tune for up coming post.
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