Insadong, Seoul

We’ve switched over to an iMac this year and I’ve been working on importing and organizing all of our photographs from the past ten years.  It’s a big task but it’s been fun going through old photos!  Now that the photos are organized, I can see that we have way more photos from 2011 (in just the past eight months) than in any other year yet.  Having this blog has given me a reason to take more photographs that I normally would and of things that I typically wouldn’t have photographed in the past.  As a result, we have an amazing photo record of our life this year and will in the years to come as well.

I have more photos than I can count and while organizing them all, I’ve come across many that I really like and almost forgot that I had taken!  Back in April I took a trip to Seoul with a friend and we hit up the Hangang Spring Flower Festival, the Dongdaemun Fabric Market, and Insadong.  I never published the Insadong photos in a blog post so I thought I’d revisit it today.

Insadong is an arts and antiques district in Seoul.  It has one main street (a 1/2 mile long) running through it with countless small alleys branching off of it.  There is a great variety of shopping here.  Along with artwork and antiques, you will also find handicrafts, art supplies, frame shops, stationary stores, pottery and porcelain shops, book stores, a few clothing shops, and traditional souvenir shops.  Insadong also has lots of restaurants, cafes, coffee shops, and tea houses.  The best places for food and drinks are hidden in the little side alleys!  The main street is closed to traffic on weekends making it more crowded with visitors and street vendors during that time.