Day Fifty-One: Korea!

8/3/14, 12:06 PM PDT

(Another mobile update, so the formatting may be a little weird. Updates are still way too much work for me to put out on a regular basis until I can find an actual computer, I'm sorry guys.)

We boarded the plane. And it was SO BEAUTIFUL. We only bought economy class tickets because we're frugal Asian people, but the stuff they had available for the economy class was still AMAZING.

They had the normal stuff that's on pretty much every plane. They had a screen and a cute little remote to control it with that you could pull out.

It's so fancy. But you already know.

On the back of the remote, they had game buttons, a tiny joystick, and a qwerty keyboard, which I thought was pretty cool.

Innovation!

But the real selling points of this place? The BUILT-IN USB PORT FOR YOUR CHARGING CONVENIENCE.

GENIUS!

Or how about this COAT HANGER? I don't even know how the hell it's supposed to work, but shit, it's THERE.

What will the Germans think of next?

And the pièce de resistance: A FOLDING CUP HOLDER ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE FOLDING TRAY.

HOLY

HELL.

So after the plane took off, I decided to play around with the thing. Or at least, I tried to. I accidentally picked "Korean" as my language when I first booted up my screen and the settings menu was all in Korean so I had no idea how to change it back. I asked the guy next to me and he helped me change it back to English. Shoutouts to you, cool Korean dude.

No problem, equally cool Filipino kid.

Listened to some interesting Korean music by an artist who called himself "Bump of Chicken." His music's pretty interesting, the album I listened to kinda reminded me of Anamanaguchi mixed with the new Rainbow Road song in Mario Kart 8, which is nice. Hear for yourself.

Orrrr just look it up on YouTube,  my phone is being horrible again. Sorry kids.

My sister also got this ADORABLE Pororo the Penguin thing for being a kid in the airplane.

I ended up asking the flight attendants for another one of those because the Pororo case also doubles as a wonderful tablet case. Or at least, a hell of a lot better than the old pillowcase that I used as a substitute.

After a largely restless flight, we landed in Incheon Airport, which I think is on Seoul. Arrived at around 4  AM local time, so everything in the airport was still closed. The place, save for the handful of people that slept overnight waiting for their connecting flights, was largely empty.

It's so... quiet.

ALLLLLL BYYYY MYYYSEEEIEEEEELF.

But we stuck around for awhile, so we got to see some of the places open. Here's a few of the pictures I took while I was there.

I didn't know they opened a coffee shop in your
name, Samantha.

Coincidentally, Weenie Beeny was my nickname in
grade school.

Everything here is so small.

Pretty sign. I think.

This is how robot apocalypses begin.

We found a few theme shops too, which looked cute when they were open...

Or at least, half open.

Charlie Brown does the worst hover hands.

Bonjour chat!

Cats don't appreciate couches made of the flesh of
their fellow kin.

Very pretty, no?

...But pretty damn creepy when they were closed.

Pray that these metal bars hold, mortal.

The great pumpkin king knows all.

We decided to eat in the airport's food court. It's very pretty.

Sparkly.

And it had a Burger King too!

Your move, McDonalds.

And of course, the first thing they played when the TVs in the food court started working was their national anthem.

No right hands over hearts here. Only
invisible horse rides.

Ate some nice, authentic, homestyle, Korean cuisine. I don't know what the Korean text read, but the English translation was "KFC."

Notice the lack of fingers, mind you.

Soon, we boarded our flight. I watched The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, both of which were awesome movies.

Oh, and for future reference, I have to download the Pacific Rim OST at some point. The airplane had it as one of its music options and it makes EVERYTHING sound incredibly dramatic. It made the airplane landing seem like it was deciding the fate of the multiverse, it made eating airplane food seem like a battle between my Jaeger gums and the Kaiju broccoli beef, and it made my sister's kicks to my leg while she slept seem like crushing moments of defeat.

Plus the fact that this exists further strengthens my point.

RFotD: I wanted to snap my tablet in half a few times while writing this.

SGAT