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How I Took 24 HOURS to go Korea from Singapore / How I Became Homeless in Qingdao for 6 hours

Ok so as can be seen from the title, I took 24 hours to go Korea from Singapore. Yeah, how's that even possible? Just FYI, it takes about 6 hours to have a direct flight to Korea from Singapore. The story is short and simple. It was about S$1.1~1.3K to book a direct flight to Korea via Asiana Airlines, and yes it's so expensive wth. And as I was having a hard time deciding what to do, my work boss recommended me that I could go Korea via Transfer. I have never done that before as I have been blessed with nice parents and grandma to let me take direct flights all the time, so I decided to give it a try. From a website called kiwi.com which my dad recommended, I managed to book a flight to Korea with Transfer via Qingdao Airport, at S$787.45. Yup I saved at least S$300. My flight was on 9th Dec 2.10 a.m.(Singapore time) to Qingdao, arriving at 7.50 a.m.(Qingdao time). Then with 2 hours 45 minutes of waiting time, my Transfer flight was at 10.35 a.m. to Korea (Incheon I...

My Lonely Trip to "the" Itaewon 이태원; How Does This Place Look Like?

L et me get straight to the point. I came across 10 Transgender Bars. This blog post will be super useful for you if you are planning to visit Itaewon 이태원 of Korea, or simply interested in how does this "infamous" place looks like. I'm not sure how non-Koreans heard of Itaewon; but in Korea, it is commonly thought of as a non-conservative, rowdy, dirty and an "adult" place . It is even referred to as a Red Light District from time to time. So,,, how does this place really look like?? Let's just go and see it for myself. Let's take a moment to look at this Transgender Bar. Can't believe this is Korea wtf      And that's how I ended up going to Itaewon, alone . To make the story short, it was a night on June 27th 2018, the FIFA World Cup day where Korea had an epic match with Germany. I had a Spicy Cold Noodle, called Bibimmyeon, with my grandma. And at about 9 pm, I told her that I will go out and just walk around. Being my kind ...