19 May 2022
Arriving in Seoul
Prepare to have your brain pierced nasally
The second flight was not as long as the first flight but still pretty long. Made longer because some peopled did not board and so they had to take all the bags out again to find the bombs they put on board.
I am pretty tired now, so not much of this will make sense. That is a warning.
The part of coming to Korea during this era of the world that has been bothering me the most is the second covid test. The process to get one is easy, you make a booking on a website called safe2go, follow the signs and brace yourself for the worst pain you have ever experienced in your life. At least that is what I have read.
So many people have described how getting a PCR test in Korea is the most pain they ever felt. I don't know if it was just my pig nose, but the girl that did mine barley scraped around the rim of one nostril, far less invasive than an Australian PCR test even. But, now I have to wait for the results.
You are allowed to take the train to your hotel, which seems silly, because the special airport train is not running as the airport is operating at less than 20 percent capacity, so you get on an all stops train and stand up for an hour on the ride into the city with Koreans coming home from work while potentially spewing terrifying white guy COVID into your mask.
I got off at the main station and walked a long distance to my hotel, thinking it might be the last decent walk I get in case my test comes back positive! What a holiday that would be, you get to see the abandoned airport, the inside of the train, and the only bit of the country you get to experience is the walk from your train to your hotel before you test positive, are locked up for a week and then deported.
Hopefully my test comes back soon, I want to venture out again before going to sleep! Or pass out trying.
I think this was in Singapore still, that is my plane, a dreamliner for this leg, previous leg was an a350, they are basically the same thing except one is French.
First photo in Korea. Despite describing all kinds of things you need to do to enter as a tourist above, I photographed none of them.
And here is my hotel. This is the same hotel I stayed in the very first time I came to Korea. It is cheap at the moment despite being in the middle of the tourist part of town, there is a clue there as to why it is cheap, read below to find out! I specifically chose it because its a western brand and caters to people who speak English, in case I need to convince them about my previous covid recovery to prevent being shipped off to North Korea.