Seogwipo with Scattered Showers // Hiking Hallasan
Annyeonghaseyo erebun! A note: because a lot of the things I did on my last day in Seoul (shopping in Myeongdong and Insadong especially) I will probably do all over again when I return to Seoul at the end of my trip, I'll cover them there! For now I'm just going to move on to an account of my time here on Jeju Island while it's still fresh... [INTERLUDE: AIRPORT TIME MACHINE] Rather than returning to Incheon for my flight out to Jeju, I only got as far as Gimpo, Seoul's smaller and more local airport - think the Gatwick to Incheon's Heathrow. Going through check-in at Gimpo is like travelling back in time to the 90s in the best possible way; with all the super intense modern anti-terrorism measures dialed waaay back, getting through security is a hassle-free ten-minute experience. No dissecting your bag into fifteen separate canopic jars and then rushing to reconstruct yourself on the other side, just putting your luggage through one scanner and walking...