SDC Chuk-Je 2007 (Suwon , Korea)

SDC Chuk-Je Meaning Our Festival (in Hangul) is the 2nd Annual celebrations of L&T InfoTech’s Samsung Development Center at Suwon, Korea. SDC employees marked this event with lots of enthusiasm and festival spirit.

On December 16^th 2007, annual get together was held in YMCA, Suwon hosted by SDC. The Chief Guests for this function Mr.Kwangkook Kim, Senior Manager, Samsung, Planning group,Network Systems Division,Mr.YoungKeon cho, Senior Manager System development Team, Mrs.Sunja oh, Senior Manager, Mr.Ildoo Kim, Assistant Manager & Ms.Wonji Choi, Assistant Manager Planning group, Network systems division. Thanks for presence and enjoying the festival.

The festival proceedings begin with a Prayer to Lord Ganeshji from Maitri and Gayatri followed by the candle lighting and cake cutting from our chief guests. After this Danny gave a short recapture of all the monthly events conducted in Korea for the SDC members. It captured all the events , Experience of SDC members in Korea, Various aspects of Korean culture and the way SDC adopted in Korea and Korean culture, food and other things.

After a slow a bit boring start of the event, Crowd got on to their legs with whistles when manish came to rock the stage with is fusion dance performance.. After his performance i could only here ONCE MORE ONCE MORE....... Gaurav was nice with his harmonica and Deepak with his singing.

Girish and his team made the event more interesting by organizing a variety of games for the SDC members. These games took more people to the stage and to show with their talents in dancing. It was full of fun and exitement. Even our honorable guests were part of these games.

This was followed by the award distribution ceremony. As a part of this festival there were many sports events organised. Winners were presented with their trophies by our honorable guests.
Some of the Events tat took place are Cricket, Jogku and badminton. Indian cuisine was served after this event. Dinner was tasty and spicy as all anticipated :)

After this there was a small stage skit Mad-Ad by Aithe-Illa boys which made the crowd to laugh and roll on their stomachs. Last event of the show was again a rocking sensational fashion show with a concept; this event got a very good response from the crowd and appreciation from our guests.

At last there was a small open disco. Where all the SDC members stretched their legs and showed their real talents in dancing.

I Enjoyed this event a lot ,It was full of fun and refreshment which is good in between the stressful work and schedules. I wish i could be a part of this kind of events at least once in a year.

Snowfalll ...... Suwon

Wow Again.. snow fall!!!!
This is the first snowfall in this winter here in Suwon.

Snowfall is very beautiful and everyone enjoyed playing with the snow.. It was really cold and chilling.. It was a wonderful evening for us . we had a lots of fun during the snowfall.





It all started around 6 in the evening. within a minutes everything was white in color.. Snow covered completely on the roofs of buildings and cars... Roads covered by the snow and it was like a white thick carpet on it. It was pure white everywhere.



The Best thing we did is to throw snow :), Enjoyed throwing snow on each other. And also taking lots of snaps :)

Weekend at Itaewon

Itaewon is city district in Seoul and located in Line-6 of Seoul Subway line. This is the favorite place for tourists. You can find a lots of nice restaurants which serves a nice international cuisines.(Indian, Thai and Mexican)

Some of the Indian restaurants here are Chakra,Taj Mahal and Ashoka.



Itaewon is also famous for shopping street, you can find a lots of shops where we can buy some of the Korean traditional items and nice gifts for your friends and relative.you can find a nice clothing, bags,shoes,leather products and antique furnitures here for a fair deal here.Another main reason is that most of the shop owners speak English so that we can communicate with them easily.


Overall itaewon is a nice place to go in a weekend, you can eat , do shopping or just hang out there in the nice colorfull streets of itaewon.If you are a automobile lover then its a nice place where you can find some cool luxury cars and ncie super bikes.

Some of the nearby places like seoul tower and War memorial are located close to itaewon and you can plan to visit these places also.

Ganesh Chaturthi Celebrations at SEOUL ...

One of the most popular Gods in India, lord Ganesh or Ganpati is considered a symbol of wisdom and a bringer of good luck.Ganesh is popularly known as vignavinashak who is responsible for removing all the hurdles in ones life.

Its nice that the ganesh festival celebrations were held in Korea also,My thanks to the Indian students in Seoul national university and others who helped to make this event successful.


I was happy when i came to know that Ganesh festival celebrations will be held in Seoul national university and decided to attend this, It was a two day event. The pooja was on 15th sep 2007 (Saturday) and on sunday the visarjan along with cultural programs.



The organizers had a tough time because of rains, but they managed to stick to earlier schedule. The cultural programs were organized so well. The cultural programs started with a Ganesh Stotra by Korean Kids followed by the a small speech by the Dean of Seoul National University.

I was surprised to see the bajans from Korean kids, They were so fluent and sang the bajans with full of devotion.


The other programs were given by ISCKON korea, Anand Marg , Brahma Kumari samaj and Bharatnatyam performance. Along with the cultural events there was mahaprasadam from all the devotees. Around 500 Indians who are in Korea attended the festival celebrations and showed their devotion towards lord Ganesh.


Jai Ganesh.... Ganapathi bappa moriyaa..

SEOUL International Fireworks Festival - 2007

This festival is held in the month of october every year, this year it was on 13th and we got opportunity to witness this wonderful festival. This is a international event in which 3 countries participated (Japan ,America and Korea) ,It will be held in the han river and a good spot to view this festival Hangang River Citizen’s Park in front of 63 City Building.

I have never seen such a crowd in korea, more than 300 thousand people witnessed this spectacular event, reaching the festival spot was very difficult as the subway trains and stations were fully crowded by the people who are all eager to get a good spot to view this wonderful display of fireworks.

This started around 7:00 PM and continued for 2 hours.It was a great display of colorful fireworks by all the three countries,the event light up the sky from the Hangang railway bridge to the Wonhyogyo Bridge.The most attractive thing is at the end, it lighted up with entire bridge it was like a colorful fire pouring down the bridge.

Skiing at pheonix ski park...

Pheonix ski park is one of the good and new ski resorts in korea and its located in Pyeongchang-gun , We had been to this resort in the month of february. We reached the resort by a bus which starts from Bundang at earlymorning 6:00.

Pheonix is a very big and neat ski resort with 12 skiing slopes with different levels, only 2 are recomended for begineers.

All the skiiing equipments are available for rent here so that u can pick it up and enjoy your ski, ski instructors are also available who can guide you about how to ski.As we reached the resort we all geared up ourselves with all the ski equipments, our santanu in josh took skiing goggles also ;) We all moved to the slopes slowly with ski gear the people out were enjoying skiing , lots of small children where skiing so easliy which made us to think skiing will be easier, we got to know how tough it will be as we landed on the snow.

My god it was a real good experience skiing on a snow, it s not at all a easy job, I have no count of how many time i had fallen on the snow while skiing and the tougher part is to get up and standing on the snow.It was the same with all of us, our popye and ravi were doing well and finaly we dared to climb up the beginers slope.

It was the same on the slopes also, it was very difficult to control the speed while we were skiing which ended in somersalts on the snow. some how all of us came down the slope after a lot of ups and downs ;)

I should tell its one of the finest things that i have done and we all had a lot of fun skiing :) am waiting for snowfall to start so that again i can go for skiing :)

Yongsan- Asia's Second Biggest Electronics Market

Yongsan Electronics market is one of my favorite places in korea and i have visited this place more times than any other place in korea.yongsan is the located north of the han river and in central seoul region, One can reach yongsan electronics market very easily from suwon through the seoul subway line no. 1 , its almost 40 mins from suwon and if u take the fast train u can reach by 25 mins.

Yongsan market has around 15 buildings and more than 5000 electronic shop. And this is the place where u can find all electronic goods such as small cabels connectors,laptops,home appliances, computers and its peripherals,stereos,gaming equipments,CDs and DVDs,telephones,lighting euipments , cameras and handy cams, MP3,PMP players , Automobile stereos and GPS gadgets and more and more .

All the korean electronic products and other imported products are coparitively cheaper and you will the get the new released and latest products at yongsan.
Yongsan Electronics Mall Complex is largely divided into I’PARK MALL(space 9), Seonin Mall, Najin Mall, Terminal Mall .

Space 9 is a newly constructed terminal with 9 floors and its quiet big.Its right opposite to the subway station. Other malls are outside the subway station and these are the old ones,you can reach these malls by the skyway from the subway station.
In the space 9 u will get all the things which u will be looking for and the choices will be more for u here where as in other malls u have to search a bit. Prices are comparatively cheaper in the malls which are present outside of the subway station.

Space 9 complex has lots of other shops also like furnitures, Musical instruments and clothings and it also has a CGV IMAX multiplex theatre .
Watching a movie in IMAX screen is a good experience. IMAX screen is so huge and u can feel the difference of watching movie in this kind of big screen and with very good sound quality.we had been to 300 and spiderman 3 here .

Aiins World ( Miniature park of world famous monuments.

Aiins World is a theme park where u can find almost 70 miniature recreations of world famous monuments and buildings .

The miniature was crafted very neatly,i think they even considered the very smalll details of the orginal one for creating these exact miniatures .

Its very easy to reach this theme park by metro.(Line 1 songnae station exit 2 and 5 mins drive in a taxi).

My self ,hemanth,deepak,achar and naga left our guest house round 2:00 PM and we all reached the place by 3:30 we were all hungry so decided to eat something there and we had bibimpap (korean rice with sprouts and red sauce).

After energizing we went to see the miniatures ,those were really good to see , Aiins world was divided into four zones based on the region of the miniatures.
All most all the world famous monuments were there on display , its like a world tour in a single day ;)



some of the famous monuments on display was Taj Mahal,Tower Bridge,Buckingham palace,Big Ben,StoneHenge,Eiffel Tower,Louvre Museum,Pyramids,Great wall of china,Anguk wat temple,several cathedrals and basilicas,WTC twin towers(Off course its a history now),Empire state building,Times square,Wooden pagoda and the list continues ............................


Aiins World lights up at night, we missed it.Taking pictures next to some of the most famous structures in the world is fun for all. :)
It was like trip around the world all in one day !!!!

Delicious Korean Uthapam -Bindaetteok (Bindatha)

Korean Bindatha (Bindaetteok) is very simmilar to the south indian uthapam and its one of the delicious food which i tasted in korea.

Its a pancake made of ground mung beans, with green onions, kimchi, or peppers cooked on frying pans.

Fermented kimchi or sea food is mixed into a flour-based batter, and then fried in an oiled pan. This dish tastes best when it is hot dipped in soy sauce, vinegar, and red pepper powder.



Myself went with deepak (Popoiii) and santanu in search of bindatha this weekend and finallly our popoiii found the place where these are served. The restaurant had a good ambience and unique decorations with the flags of different nations .



The korean who was cooking there was knowing a bit english which helped us a lot to explain him wat we were looking for thn finally we ordered one seafood bindatha and one Yacche(vegitarian) Bindatha and a big fish for Popoiiii and santanu (offcourse popoiiii ate most of the fish ;)).



It was really delicious with the vinegar sauce and red pepper powder. We had a nice korean feast that night for dinner :)