Touch Korea Tour: Gangnam Style last day and Buzz Korea Awards 2012

Hey mates, how's everything?

So, this is the last day of the tour so check it out:

I woke up early and went to Tim’s room to meet the Fun Tour for us to take breakfast together.

Good news of the morning, Tim joined us heading to Lotte World.

Hey Raphael, what the hell Lotte World is about dude!?

Don't cry man, i'll explain to you guys:

Lotte World if you don’t know is is a major recreation complex in Seoul. It consists of the world's largest indoor theme park (a Guinness World Record) which is open all year around, an outdoor amusement park called "Magic Island", an artificial island inside a lake linked by monorail, shopping malls, a luxury hotel, a Korean folk museum, sports facilities, and movie theaters all in one place.

Opened on July 12, 1989, Lotte World receives over 8 million visitors each year and is considered along with Tokyo Disney Resort as one of the world-class theme parks in Asia.

                                                     (Stop having fun without me, girls!)

                                                                                         (We rock)

So, if you wanna more info about Lotte World don’t be shy and visit their website right here. 

Is that it!? Yeeees, cool, right!?

Ok, moving on:

Tim, Amelie and I went to a few funny stuffs and later on Tim got back to the hotel to change his clothes for the Awards.

Meanwhile I joined the girls and we had a fun time together.

After the fun time we went to lunch.

We went to Nonhyeon Samgyetang to have a chicken soup:

Ok, enought of lunch, let's head to the Award now, we all headed to Beyond Museum for the Buzz Korea Awards 2012.

The award was divided into 2 parts, the first part was to give the prices to the Fun Tour team hosted by Rick Kim.

The second part, hosted by a famous Korean comedy (sorry dude, is just forgot your name, but you're awesome) was to give the awards for us (yes, Touch Korea Gangnam Style participants).

Kang Yi and I won the best video:

The best bloggers:

Rookies:

Communicators:

For K-pop fans, 2PM and miss A appeared in both parts.

First, they gave the awards for the Fun Tour team and second part, they were giving prices for those who wrote their names.

They gave the clothes they used during the Touch Korea Tour campaing.

                                                                     (It fits you mate)

We didn’t met them, but Fun Tour team met so I’ll post their photos (thanks guys).

Oh yeah, almost forgot to tell, mini Psy (the kid from the Psy’s video) performed and I must say he pretty much rocked.

He’s a very entertainment kid, he had a great future ahead.

After receiving the awards and the prices was time for Kpop groups.

First we saw the performances of miss A. The girls sang their new hit “I don’t need a man” (bs btw, Suzy said she still needs me) and then they performed their successful hit “Bad Girl Good Girl”.

After miss A was 2PM time. There will be no photos cause it wasn’t allowed, but they sang “Hands Up”.

Oh, I almost forgot again, during the break between the awards, Tiphany and Dondré performed some songs, they were great. Check out the video:

My head is pretty fucked up today, sorry about that (it’s Monday morning now so forgive me).

Ok ok, after the big award we all went to dinner in Heukdonga to eat Samgyeopsal.

Samgyeopsal is a popular Korean pork dish. It’s grilled with Kimchi, mushrooms, garlic and onions. And it’s so fucking good (you must try it).

After dinner we all head back to Seoul Oakwood Hotel and “goodbye” time.

I didn't want to say goodbye cause I'll be back soon, but I must say it was pretty sad, we had a lot of fun during this days and my team was awesome.

I will never forget this experience, all members of Touch Korea Tour Gangnam Style (you guys were awesome, I'm proud to have had this fun with all of you).

I’ll never forget buzz Korea crew (don't worry, I'll see you guys again soon).

And that was basically it, stay tuned for the next few days, I’ll try to post my final consideration of all this adventure and so far.

I'll try to write a better farewell post (haha).

Stay tuned.

See ya.

                                                      ABOUT KTO AND BUZZ KOREA

buzz KOREA (http://www.ibuzzkorea.com/eng/) is an online community platform that allows users to share and upload content about Korea and its tourism. buzz KOREA members share their blog posts, photos and videos about their stories and experiences to help others discover the hidden attractions of Korea.

The “Touch Korea Tour” campaign (http://www.ibuzzkorea.com/touchkoreatour/eng) provides participants with the opportunity to tangibly experience Korea in person. Participants of this tour travel throughout Korea, exploring the various attractions and sights of the country. In turn, they help spread other travelers find unique destinations and activities to try.

Touch Korea Tour: Gangnam Style day 3

Hey guys, what’s up!?

Sorry about the lack of posts during this week, I was pretty busy getting back to grind, heavy routine, analysis, studies, you guys can imagine how hard it is.

But let’s back to business, i'll keep posting about my tour in Korea.

Today i'm gonna talk about my third day of the Tour, so check it out:

We woke up pretty early that morning, had breakfast and then went to the bus heading to the vocal academy called SandFactory to learn how to sing and dance the Psy's "Gangnam Style" song.

We met our two teachers. The female teacher was our singing teacher and the male one our dance teacher.

We were divided in two teams to compete against each other for a surprise gift.

                                                             (The best team ever)

                                                           (The worst team ever)

Haha, just joking guys!

First, we learn the moves of the dance.

And after a few minutes we went to learn how to sing.

I had a hard time singing cause I can’t speak Korean and you guys can imagine how my pronunciation was (yes, really awful).

Just try to imagine some random Latin American guy trying to speak and sing another Asian language without knowing what to do and how to do (that was how it looked like).

After the lessons we went to compete.

After the competition the teachers decided which team would be the winner, and.....

And.....

Yep, it wasn’t our team =/

That’s ok team, we lost the battle but not the war! Haha.

After classes and competition was the lunch time, we had an awesome lunch at Samwon Garden, check it out:

Sweet right!?

After lunch we all went to shop in Garosu-gil Road. This street is so cool, there’s a lot of stores and fashion stores and the prices are really cool, not expensive in some stores.

So if you go there you’ll be in a real Gangnam style without spend that much.

The SBS was there to take some shots of us and I even gave them an interview.

The reporter asked me how popular is Gangnam Style hit in brazil and my thoughts about Korea so far.

                                                                  (The SBS reporter)

Of course he asked me about Korean girls and you can imagine what my answer was, right!?

Ok, enough of Gangnam Style for now, we went to Samsung Delight Shop to see some technologies and what’s new.

It’s a cool place where you can see the new technologies and some Samsung products such as cell phones, cameras, laptops, tvs, etc.

You can even play video games there. Awesome place to visit.

Dinner time now, we all went to MuiMui in Apgujeong to have dinner.

Yeah, really cool place. All places were really cool, right!?

Competition time again. We all headed to Pierrot Strike in Apgujeong too (it's very close from Muimui so you can go walking like us).

We were divided in 2 teams again and my team was basically the same in SandFactory.

Revenge time, we played bowling and I must say my team crushed other team! Hahaha

After this completion (wasn’t fair cause my team ruled) we all went back to the Seoul Oakwood Hotel to take a rest.

But I didn't take a rest that time I still had a schedule to fulfill.

After taking shower I went to Tiphany Laurent’s room to meet the Fun Tour team.

Tim and I went to buy some beers and sojus while Dondré and Tiphany were rehearsing for their presentation.

Michelle and Erry were in the sofa talking while Tim and I drinking.

They are really cool, they are such a great team!

                                                           (You guys are awesome)

                                                                 (drinking mates)

                                                                      (the famous Soju)

So, that was basically it for the third day, very long day but was the best day in my opinion.

Stay tuned for the next post, i'll talk about our last day of Touch Korea Tour: Gangnam Style..

See ya.

                                                    ABOUT KTO AND BUZZ KOREA

buzz KOREA (http://www.ibuzzkorea.com/eng/) is an online community platform that allows users to share and upload content about Korea and its tourism. buzz KOREA members share their blog posts, photos and videos about their stories and experiences to help others discover the hidden attractions of Korea.

The “Touch Korea Tour” campaign (http://www.ibuzzkorea.com/touchkoreatour/eng) provides participants with the opportunity to tangibly experience Korea in person. Participants of this tour travel throughout Korea, exploring the various attractions and sights of the country. In turn, they help spread other travelers find unique destinations and activities to try.