Merry Christmass

Christmass is coming... You might have noticed that due to the omnipresent crazy caps, hats etc the poor franchise employes have to wear. That there are more memorable Christmas decorations i would like to prove with theses two pictures:

With this let me wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year :)

p.s. The crib was especially surprising because it's located on the backside of a small parking lot next to a little Catholic church. If you want to visit the location is tagged to this post.

New Art Installations at SNU

Please have a look at this lovely installation. It can be found in front of the fine arts building (200 meter inwards behind the soccer field). Around there are a few other new installations which a worth a look.

Cellphone cases

I haven't been to the west in quite a while. However when i went last time you couldn't get things like these. Enjoy the pics :)

Contrast

As the title says: Contrast.

Spring loaded contraptions of death

Apparently there is a mechanical engineering class at SNU where the final exam is to build something as dangerous as possible shoot a golf ball as far as possible. Its a mechanical engineering class so unfortunately no chemical energy source may be used ^^. The final exam was held near the amphitheater and ranges of 100 meter were common.  

Lassagne

I'm a big fan of lasagna, especially al forno. However most italian restaurants in korea offer only koreanised, so called 'oven spagetthi', which are eatable but nothing more.
You might understand how surprised i was when i found this instant Lasagna al Forno at Homeplus:

For around 5000 won you get 280g lasagna and an obscene amount of calories ^^. My expectations were not high because mostly pre made stuff is only convenient but not authentic. However this one blew me away. Good strong tomato sauce, much cheese which might even be mozzarella, al dente pasta plates in the middle and lo and behold: béchamel sauce under the cheese. Especially the Béchamel under the cheese was very unexpected (until now i only found one restaurant in seoul making their lasagna properly with béchamel).

In clonclusion i can say this one is well worth its price. Less then 300g doesn't sound like much but its very heavy and therefore enough for one person. The overall taste is very nice but of course not as good as a good fresh lasagna. However compared to the common oven spaghetti this dish is clearly better.

Try it out :)

Personalized Advertisement in Korea

We received an advertisement from the GS supermarket in seoul. I agree that that wold normally not warrant a blogpost, however this was quite special in the way that it was personalized. This advertisement contained 10% discount coupons for the items we most frequently brought at GS. In the order of frequency, so ham was on place one, followed by milk, eggs, laundry detergent, chicken meat, cornflakes, cheese, butter and kim. 

I didn't really decide yet if i like that (are they also saving which brand of condoms we prefer? when do they delete these data? do i want my landlord to know what we buy?), but I'm quite fascinated. The woes and wonders of modern technology....