Nights out in Seoul

Last weekend I had my first experience out on the town in Seoul and... I couldn't be happier. I was able reunite with the whole ATI crew at a nice Mexican style restaurant in Iteawon (foreigners central) last Saturday. After warning my fellow English teachers about their upcoming orientation and listening to their helpful advice about their first week of teaching, we hit the town. The Koh Chang girls were back in action! We meet up with new friends I meet at the SMOE orientation and danced the night away! We went to a sweet underground bar in the Hongdea area. Hondgea is over flowing with bar, clubs, restaurants and loads of young people. Its right by the University so the drinks are pretty economical and everything stays open 24-7. The unfortunate thing about Seoul is that the metro closes at 11:30 and doesn't open up until 6am so this makes it pretty difficult to get home. There are tons of cabs but they can get pretty expensive. So at 2am when we couldn't dance anymore we decided to kill some time till the subway were back and running. First we tried to get some late night vegetarian food, which apparently is a four-letter word in Korea because we got refused service at about 10 restaurants. We finally had to give in and order so some seafood dishes! After a filling Korean meal we still had 3 hours to kill and that when we had the brill ant idea to hit up the all night sauna. For $8 bucks we got to chill out in hot bath and sauna room with a handle full of naked elderly Korean and matching issued uniforms. The best part is the nap room, where you can sleep on the ground with about 40 other people until they kick you out at 8am. It was kinda of like a homeless shelter/ spa treatment so after a nice shower and a little sleep we got to hop on train back home.