While I have been touristing around Stockholm together with my boyfriend during the last week I have started to see parts of the city in a new, Seoul inspired, light. Because I know how hard it is to remember names of people and places in a language that you are not familiar with me and Y came up with a system to help him remember places around Stockholm. This system is basically not any harder than we naming areas around here with the same names of similar areas in Seoul.
For example, the middle of Stockholm where most good shopping is (City, Drottninggatan etc) we have named Myeong-dong after the best shopping area in Seoul. Östermalm and Biblioteksgatan, which is the more luxurious areas here, we call Gangnam. Söder (SoFo) is a relaxed area with a cool feel where many young people hang out and drink beer at cozy bars – we call this Hong-dae.
Sweden’s second largest city Gothenburg (Göteborg) we call Busan.
This far we have been very lucky with the weather and Y is hyped about how awesome Sweden seems. In summer this country is truly wonderful – really. But, I don’t think that one who has never experienced complete darkness for two months can appreciate the full extent of how depressing it is. But who am I to crush a boy’s dreams about the perfect country.
I want to quote your post in my blog. It can?
And you et an account on Twitter?
sure you can quote, if you add a link back to my page:)
Yes, I’ll probably get a twitter accont… i am hopeless with all these blogging nessesities…^^