You crave it in the air, the electricity of a Saturday night in at the crack April, the lively chatter between lovers and friends at tables by bright gelato shops and Italian cafes. Koreans have partied through the great winter, but this night is different with its perfumed bustle of thousands of faces case, looking for plans and making them befall in a buzzing city. It's springtime in Korea.
You ambience it in the air.
The subway's crowded but at least I know where I'm effective: Hongik University, the heart of Hongdae, one of Seoul's busiest nightlife districts. The first everything I visited that area I was a Bambi not guilty. (It was my third night in Korea, and the next day, in preference to of specifying Hongdae in this blog, I called everything I saw "Seoul." That was all I knew. Seoul. Big, outstanding, and busy. Everything Seoul.)
I'm riding unaccompanied this time, for my hagwon friends have gone to Jinhye to see the cherry blossoms for the weekend. In Hongdae I will come across a member of the Seoul Writers series and maybe a few of her friends. I don't know. I haven't met any of them in actually. IluvKorea.com and Facebook are bringing us together, but until then, I got an hour and twenty six minutes to light on the subway. I spend them with my transfer clutched to those gymnastics grips, my body shaking with the the close-go rattle-thump of the metro.


I also people-ready for.
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