My first day in KOREA

Okay, I'm ready. Let's go. Goodbye,

Mount Fuji t-shirt. Who remembers my Mount

Fuji t-shirt? I'll show you how I check

out of hotels. Instead of taking the key

card and taking it to the counter, to the

reception, and checking out, I just don't

check out. I just leave the key here and

then leave because I don't want to talk to

Goodbye, key. Going down.

I'm

in Korea.

Looks very

futuristic.

Thank you.

I'm in the train station. It's very

big.

I'm in Korea.

Why am I in Korea? I don't

know. Looks nice, I guess.

There's a lot of buildings.

Where's my Airbnb? Should be somewhere

here. I think this is the right

building.

I found it, my new Airbnb.

Oh, take my shoes off first.

This is my Airbnb.

Oh, I feel like I've been traveling for

ages. Oh, there's a

loft compartment as well and a kitchen.

It's pretty warm in here. Wow,

the floor is warm. There's heating in the

floorboards. That's pretty cool. What are

these glass doors?

Storage. Let's go upstairs.

Another bed. There's 2 beds, one up here,

one down there. Which one should I use?

This is my dinner.

Within China is so great and the level of

insulation so— Well, it's, it's day

2 in Korea. Well, actually it's day 1.

It's my first, first proper full day in

South Korea, and I kind of felt a bit

depressed last night because it's weird

coming to a new country. All of a sudden

you're in a strange new place and you

don't really know why. So I didn't really

film much and I just went to bed and

Unfortunately, I ended up wasting most of

my cash on a— you know what. I've only

got about 2,000 won, which is about $2,

so I have to go to the supermarket because

I don't have any food.

They gave me this massive fridge. No food.

So I'll go to the supermarket and see how

much food I can get for $2 and I think I

should be able to get some cabbage and

tofu.

There's not really much to show you.

There's buildings,

7-Eleven,

traffic.

Everything's so expensive. Well, I

finished shopping, but I went over the

budget by quite a lot. I didn't realize

food would be so expensive here.

It's a bit boring here.

Everywhere just looks kind of gray,

gray and white.

Okay, I'm back from shopping and I went

over the budget a little bit. Ended up

spending 21,131 won,

which is about— it's about $17.67.

I thought I could get a few things with

only 2,000 won, but I was wrong. Mostly

everything was at least 1,500 or 2,000

won. So here's what I got. I got for

breakfast some Cornflake bars,

very nutritional.

I got some dirty carrots and

got some sausages.

Got some coffee, 20 sticks of Maxim

coffee. This is— I think it's a Korean

brand. Definitely need coffee.

We got some bread.

I got 2 potatoes for 1,500 won,

which is pretty good. I also got some

beef— Australian True Aussie Beef—

Australian beef, 40% discount.

Pretty good deal. Why is it expanding?

And yeah, that's all I got.

$16— no, $17 worth of food. Let's see

how long this lasts me for. Hopefully it

lasts me about 3 days. I can make a

few dinners, I, I can make a few lunches

with the sausages and bread.

So I'll give you my first impressions of

the place. Um, I'm not very impressed to

To be honest, I think the Airbnb is

fine. It's quite a nice Airbnb. It's a bit

scruffy here and there, but in general

it's pretty good. The location that I'm in

is just not very good. I thought that if

I lived next to Seoul Station, I would be

in the central part of the capital city of

Korea and it would be all modern and built

up and nice. And you see this part, it

does look kind of nice, doesn't it? It

looks nice from a distance, but when you

go out there and you go near the

buildings, then you start to realize that

a lot of the buildings look old and run

down, and there's homeless people

everywhere. I went to the train station

and there were loads of them just sitting

around with the cardboard box shelters,

and there's junk all over the streets. It

just kind of reminded me of the slum area

that I went to in Osaka where I made a few

videos. The area just feels kind of run

down, and it made me feel depressed

walking around out there. Well, I guess

it's my fault because I didn't do any

research on the area that I was going to

be moving into, but I have to stay here

for the next 2 weeks because I booked the

Airbnb for 2 weeks and there's no refunds.

I think I'll start looking for a new place

in a better area. And for dinner,

I'm going to make a very simple meal of

potatoes, carrots, and Australian

beef.

Okay, so I finished frying the beef and

that goes straight into the potato and

carrot soup.

And we have 2 servings of my special beef

and potato and carrot soup, one for today

and then one for tomorrow's dinner.

So let's go in for a try. We've got some

carrots, some beef, some potato.

Mm, mm, that's pretty

good actually. Good old hearty

beef soup.

Mm-hmm. Why don't you give it a try