Hongdae

As per usual, our plans have either been disrupted by MERS or by our sleeping past midday.

The DMZ tours have been canceled for a while due to the outbreak, but the concert looks set to continue,  provided we can pass a thermographic scan at the gate, and a quick consultation with medical staff. The odd thing though, is that it's mostly a hospital outbreak, which is exasterbated by the fact that Koreans go to the doctor for every little thing, stretching services and actually infecting people that go there for something else.

After a horrendous night of soju on Tuesday,  we went walking around Hongdae University with a couple of the drinkers from the previous night - Elliot and Marie.

There were multiple exhibitions on display, in addition to the cool and art installations across the campus.

Later that night, we met with Jake, whom was my korean helper/buddy during the semester I studied here. He has a fancy job at LG, and despite our best efforts, we couldn't coax any free sample phones out of him. He introduced us to a few of his colleagues,  and we hit the bars. We kept it reasonably quiet, and stopped by his brother's restaurant along the way.

I spent the extra time I had that night/morning finishing off The Naked God, the final book of a 4500 page trilogy. Queue book hangover (or regular hangover if you don't believe that). It was 5:30am by this stage.

Today, we're going to meet a kpop producer we became aware of via YouTube. He has a recording studio towards the northeast of the city, and has a few albums set for release soon.

Should be interesting.