Celebrating Lunar New Year in South Korea 🧧🐯 Korean food and Hanok village | life in Seoul vlog

Hey guys! This is Pibi and Bea and welcome to our channel. It is sunlight in Korea which is basically the lunar new year and pretty much everything is closed because a lot of people go back home to visit their families. So generally speaking, as a foreigner, it is difficult to celebrate Seollal on the actual day but there are still a few things open so we are going to show you how you can celebrate Seollal We are now at Namsan Gulhanokmal which as the name itself says is located in Namsan Tower and it was built in 1998. And in this village there are five different premises that once belonged to aristocrats and people from the government during the Joseon dynasty and they they were originally located... Oh shoot! As I was saying, they were originally located in different neighborhoods but then they moved them here and restored them. So why don't we explore the rest of the place together? If you guys are interested in coming here, this place is open all week except for Mondays and it's free entrance and they do have a lot of Korean cultural activities such as making rice cake, tea ceremony and I think folk music? And you can also get married here. Wedding ceremony! And this place is located not far from Chungmuro which is walking distance to Myeongdong and in the area there are a lot of authentic Korean restaurants and now since it's pretty much lunchtime let's go and try to find a Korean restaurant that is open Let's pray! We came all the way to Myeongdong because there are no restaurants in Chungmuro that are open Yes and we're trying to find tteokguk But we're really struggling There are a few restaurants open but they don't have tteokguk So let's see if we can find anything No! No tteok mandu guk! No, okay next! Let's try again somewhere else I'm so desperate No, I'm hungry We found it! Yay! She's so dancing We finally found a restaurant that has tteokguk and we had to get it because it is typically eaten on the first day of the year And apparently it brings good luck We ordered tteok mandu guk, porridge Like mushroom soup And japchae, this is the vegetable version and we've got lots of cute sign dishes If you have rice wine, you gotta make sure to shake it Shake it, shake it Maybe not, maybe not shake it You're supposed to shake it I'm so confused That was a close one Happy Lunar New Year! They can hear us My first tteokguk this year So hot and warm Dumpling, I think the kimchi one Mandu, yay! Japchae time now I'm a mess, stop, I cannot do it Good? We love BTS but We cannot record copyrights Compared to how I celebrate Chinese New Year in the UK The way I celebrate Lunar New Year in Korea is very different Especially coming with the food Before I was really interrupted by BTS I would have, like I said, food Tteokguk, japchae, a variety of jams, the small ones And then after, I'm trying to finish And then after lunch, we would have like an activity Like yunori or go stop What about you, Kaya? I don't celebrate it Yeah, we beat BTS Look at this Look at this, mom Bad boy look You like your bad boys too We're saying how Jungkook looks so like hotter With his tattoos and piercings I like Jin the best I like Suga I always have These are also really hot These, looks good now As you can see, everything is closed Either because of Seollal or because of Covid So depressing We couldn't have a vlog and not include coming to a cafe And we came to Billy Angel which is a chain And they have really nice cakes Very lovely desserts Yes, and it's perfect because there's hardly anyone inside Which is great Perfect for filming And my friends, they keep asking me if I had tteokguk today So cute And we ordered jamong cake which is grapefruit This one's really nice I've had it before so I wanted Kaya to try it I'm excited And then just some vanilla latte and caramel macchiato I don't really like grapefruit Me too But this is really nice Right? It's so good It's so fresh and tangy Like it's not overpowering It's really good This is actually our first time celebrating Seollal outside And we do and don't recommend it We do recommend it if you enjoy culture So if you want to go to policies There are not many people around which is great And also if you want to go to chain cafes They're pretty much all empty So you can enjoy a very calm afternoon or evening there But if you want more like Korean food Authentic Korean food You'll be very disappointed Yeah, you'll find a hard time finding it Maybe like an hour or two Like us So it really depends on what you want to do This is the end of the vlog And we are sorry that this video may not be as entertaining As our previous ones Yes, but we were kind of sick And also the place that we originally planned to go to is closed today So we're really sorry But next week we'll try and bring you a more exciting vlog And we still hope that you enjoy today's video regardless And we will see you next week And also Happy Lunar New Year! Bye!