Best Place to visit in Seoul South Korea map: Give Thank Yous You, Stranger

By Korea.net Honorary Reporter Rigina Bakhshaliyeva

Photos = Rigina Bakhshaliyeva

Seoul never sleeps. Dynamic at daytime, the urban heart as well as individual comes live at night, too. There are nighttime markets as well as convenience stores opened upward 24/7, themed clubs as well as bars, loud singing rooms, welcoming world baths, steam baths as well as spas, as well as enough of other nighttime activities to brand Seoul ane of the most instance nocturnal cities inward the world.

What’s more, Seoul keeps surprising its residents as well as visitors amongst to a greater extent than nightlife offerings. One of those is visiting the royal palaces inward the afternoon as well as eventide hours.

The Banpo Bridge looks quite stunning at night.

Naksan Park is lit upward at night.

The v royal palaces inward Seoul -- Gyeongbokgung, Changdeokgung, Deoksugung, Changgyeonggung, as well as Gyeonghuigung -- top the bucket listing for every urban heart as well as individual visitor as well as tourist. They're usually opened upward to Earth exclusively inward the daytime. Recently, however, as well as for exclusively a duad of times per year, it's straight off possible to taste the first-class persuasion of the palaces at night, equally well.

Gyeongbokgung Palace is ordinarily exclusively opened upward inward the daytime.

When the nighttime tours of Changgyeonggung Palace were announced, along amongst many Seoulites as well as urban heart as well as individual visitors, I rushed to larn tickets to run across the sights nether a starry nighttime sky. It was October, precisely a few months earlier I returned abode later on 3 years living inward Seoul. Even though I lived inward the urban heart as well as individual for about time, I had soundless non flora the adventure to catch the palaces at night. I was certain that was going to live ane of my biggest regrets.

“Great! Today is the in conclusion twenty-four hr stream of the nighttime tours, as well as you lot managed to salvage it for last!” As I was blaming myself, I grabbed my photographic boob tube camera as well as tripod as well as headed for the palace.

When I arrived, the entrance to the palace was already packed amongst loads of people. Some came on a date, others to shoot the nighttime landscape, as well as soundless others came precisely to accept a walk later on a long working day. After a few minutes inward queue, I approached the ticket booth.

“We’re sorry. There are no to a greater extent than tickets available. All sold out,” the immature ticket seller said politely.

“All the tickets? Already? But… but… it’s exclusively half dozen p.m. now.” I hoped at that spot had been a mistake.

“Sorry, nosotros can’t assist you,” she said, expressing sorry for me.

Discouraged as well as sad, I was most to larn out when of a abrupt a immature Korean adult woman approached me.

“I guess, you lot take away it more,” she said as well as extended her mitt to me, offering a ticket to the palace.

It turned out that the miss had overheard my conversation amongst the ticket seller as well as wanted to assist me.

Seeing me confused, the adult woman smiled. “I’m fine. I've been hither before. Just accept it,” as well as she handed me the ticket.

Oh, how happy I was! I was as well as thus delighted, non purely because I was fortunate as well as could finally taste this valuable adventure to catch the palace at night, but also because it was a generous deed of kindness from a consummate stranger.

When inward a minute of take away you lot have an unexpected helping mitt from a stranger, fifty-fifty if it's exclusively a small-scale gesture; when you're inward problem as well as random people don't but travel past times past but instead exhibit their willingness to assist -- doesn’t it brand our globe a much amend house inward which to live?

I thanked the sort adult woman as well as I wanted to heartily give cheers her again. Every fourth dimension I aspect through the photographs of the royal Changgyeonggung Palace taken that night, I recall the generous stranger as well as her deed of random kindness.