Annyeonghaseyo!!
Ever since GMA 7 started to air the phenomenon and iconic Korean Drama: Full House, this country went crazy!
People love the romantic-comdey-drama antics of the korean dramas. Filipinos were touched with their very progressive plot, story flow and of course the beautiful and handsome perfect like actors and actresses that starred in those k-dramas. As for the younger Filipinos, the k-dramas are somewhat more appealing to them and it shows the progressive and unconventional type of entertainment rather than our traditional Pinoy teleseryes.
To the extent that the term "Korean Invasion" is widely coined because of the sudden flock of Koreans that stayed, studied, invested, and build a community here in the Philippines.
Personally, I like Korean food, I love their K-dramas but that's about it.
Reason Korean wave started.
Everybody loved her. From the older people to the young ones. Song Hye Kyo.
The song stuck in our brain that we want to forget.
K-Drama
However, the developed country went thru a horrific war that led to millions of death and division of North and South Korea.
Flash Back: Cold War.
The korean war started when North Korea invaded South Korea and ever since then it's a war between communist states (Soviet Union, China, and North Korea) and capitalist states (US, South Korea, UN,). Philippines help South Korea during the war and we sent troops to fight the communist North.
As a result of the war, The Korean country is divided forming South Korea (Capitalist) and North Korea (Communist)
This post covers our trip last 2015 to South Korea during spring time (cherry blossom)
We bought a very awesome deal last Feb 2015 during the Travel Expo at SMX convention in MOA. We come across the Korean travel agency "Signature Korea". In the back of my mind, we were so luck to avail such cheap package around P40,000 (all in - tax, airfare, food, transpo, tour, hotel, etc) however of course we don't know if what we paid for is worth it. Later you will find out.
We were so ecstatic about the cold weather and we grab our jackets, boots, scarves, and gloves from our closet and have it washed.
We start our super fun and exciting trip at Ninoy Aquino Terminal 1
The agonizing Terminal 1 got a face lift and it surely did made us comfortable.
Check out the new flight information display and walls!
A part of the check-in area is under construction at that time.
See the renovated check-in counters, ceilings, walls, and floor? it's nice and convenient
Asiana Airlines
At 12:00 am check-in for the red eye flight was totally chaotic. Queue for Korean Air, Turkish Airline, Etihad got mixed up and it took a lot of ground personnel to fix the situation. Luckily for us, we were first in line. The check-in was rather slow and passive not what I expect for a 5 star airline (by skytrax) After few minutes we were on our way thru immigration (which is unbelievably fast and efficient). We headed straight to starbucks to have coffee and kill time.
Oman Air bound for Muscat
At that time, Terminal 1 is not fully refurbished yet and some areas of the terminal lack air-conditioning unit which became agonizingly hot (A lot of passengers are visibly sweating) but my last visit (October 2015) the terminal is fully functional and efficient a far cry from what it used to be.
