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.