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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nHongdae, Seoul\u2019s most famous party district, is situated near Hongik University and thus is popular with the younger, university-aged crowd. Roughly a thirty-minute subway ride from Korea University, its home to shops, restaurants, bars, and clubs galore. Entertainers line the streets, from dance groups to magicians, rock-bands to rappers, the variety is endless but the quality makes them always worth watching, if not for a second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In my time here, I\u2019ve stuck to a few favorite places, particularly NB2 (Noise Basement) and La Bamba, a Latin-American themed club. <\/p>\n\n\n\n If you\u2019re lucky enough, like I was a couple weeks back, you might even see some celebrities. (more realistically, you\u2019ll notice a huge, tightly packed crowd slowly making its way towards you, with film lights and professional cameras just barely poking out the middle) On a whim, I went out to Hongdae for churros and some light shopping and once I saw the avalanche of people slowly making its way towards me, I managed to find a good vantage point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Elian Toapanta SanchezProvider: ISASeoul, South KoreaFall Semester 2022 It\u2019s safe to say that South Korea lives by a mantra: \u201cWork hard, party harder.\u201d Education is paramount to success in the eyes of Koreans and thus, many students work themselves to exhaustion or worse. Life after university isn\u2019t any easier as South Korea is well known for its brutal working hours. Thus, it\u2019s hardly surprising that when they finally do get some well-deserved time off, they use that time to the fullest. The nightlife, especially in Seoul, is one of the most dynamic and intense in the entirety of Asia, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,6],"tags":[115],"class_list":["post-3820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2022-fall","category-semester","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3820"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3838,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3820\/revisions\/3838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/10\/On-the-streets-of-Hongdae-1024x1006.jpg\")
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