May 30 - Day 2 in Korea

The sky is already bright at about 5am and it's really difficult to have a nice sleep with the sun light, as we do not have curtains in the room. The water in the morning is ice cold. The heater happens to be spoilt recently T.T The weather is also cold. But, it becomes warmer as time goes on.

At 10am, together with Wei Shi we went to see Ms Kim, the Head of International Student Affairs. She explained to us what we need to do to apply the Alien Card. We need 2 photos, the cert to proof that we are students in Dongseo University and 10,000 won for the stamping. Then, we went to meet the Proffesor incharge for the Internet Engineering Department. We realized that most Koreans, even lecturers have problem communicating in English. They only understand basic words and sentences. Their English pronounciation sometimes is very hard to understand as well. Then, Wei Shi brought us for a simple introduction to Ms Lee's, our industrial training supervisor and Ms Saw's professors, and his labmates.

Next, we have lunch in one of the canteens in the campus. In the canteen, there's some display of the food and also their price. However, we are still clueless on what the food is. Wei Shi gave us some explanation on it and lead us to the counter next to the display to purchase the coupon for the food. Then, we need to go to one of the many sections in the canteen to take our food. There are different sections to collect different food. Kimchi, plain water and tissue are available and it's self-service. I order a dish call Hamburger Steak. It is served with rice(very nice, not plain rice), a piece of meat (which we usually find in burgers) with tomato sauce-like sauce, salad sauce and a small bowl of soup. It cost 2,000 won and it's delicious. The set lunch served is also quite nice. It is served with rice and a few small dish.

Then, Wei Shi gave us a round the campus trip. We being to a few buildings, such as the Millenium Building. There are many hi-tech features there. For example, the lights are able to sensor and only on when there's people using the staircase. We also visited the Ubiquitoes Frontier there. There are many devices, for example the fridge can be control using software.

Next, we went to a photo shop to take the photos needed for the Alien Card application. It cost 6,000 won for 8 photos. Luckily, I got bring mine.

Our next destination is Home Plus, in another words Tesco. Perhaps, the name Home Plus sounds nicer. There are 2 ways to go there. Either by foot, which take about 20 minutes or by subway, which is less than 5 min from the station. The card for the subway is 2,000 won and the mininum amount for reload is 5,000 won. From here(Naengjeong station) to Gaegeom station, it cost 720 won. Unlike the LRT in Malaysia which have escalator, there's endless staircase here.

In Home Plus, there are some fishes and crabs in the aquarium for display, like the ones that can be found in the seafood restaurant in Malaysia. However, the fishes there are quite different and the crabs are extremely huge. Suddenly, we heard a music playing and the staffs started doing light exercise. It's very funny in a sense. The things here are very expensive. For example, the pail cost 2,000 won. We took a taxi back as we bought quite a number things. The taxi cost around 2,400 won.

Tonight we take our meals on our own without Wei Shi for the first time. We walked around the area on our own. We took our dinner at camp. The menu is all written in Korean characters with no pictures. We are problems ordering food. First, we ordered a gimbak and shared. Gimbak is like a long roll of uncut sushi. It cost 1,000 won. Then, we ordered a bowl of ramen each, which is actually instant noodles, cost 1,500 won. Then, we had a walk around the area. Since we always order food with pork and beef, we thought that there's no food with chicken. Surprisingly, we found the whole row of shops sealing mostly chicken related food.