The Ground Floor

The first floor of our building (and the buildings around us) is filled with shops, businesses and restaurants. As of yet, we have only tried a few of the restaurants, but plan on trying them all soon. Coming from the 4 story building with nothing but a parking lot on the first floor in Ulsan, the bustle and smells (both delicious and sickening) are a welcome change!

Liquor Beer Cabin!

This is a Seoul based bar chain that is everywhere. We haven't been to this particular location yet, but we have visited one. It is the typical Korean pub offering the usual for drinking and the standard dried and fried plates for eating. On our visit, we sampled the fried potato platter and a few flavors of the saucy fried chicken. All were quite tasty, so it's been a comfort to know that a late night/early morning fried feast is a short elevator ride away.

Beer Camp would be way better than English Camp

And, as usual, the cabin theme is a little lost on Koreans. The outside is like a log cabin, and there are mounted animals on the walls inside, just like there should be, but the Liquor Beer Cabin's logo is a scorpion. While there are scorpions that live outside of deserts, we're pretty sure they aren't living in areas where people build log cabins...

You think Dior is good, give Dior² a try...

A popular noodle soup joint

This was the first restaurant in our building that we tried, and we were pleased. The food was good and extremely cheap. The best part, you don't place your order with the waitress that's walking around, you order and pay at a vending machine.

Travel agent


Hair shop


Two seafood restaurants

This place is next to the door we use most often to enter the building, so we walk by everyday and enjoy the delicious aromas. We also enjoy watching the employees sleep in the lawn chairs out front and socialize with the neighboring restaurateurs. We tried it for the first time the other night and were pleasantly surprised to find out it offers many of our favorite Korean soups.

The main entrance

The lady that runs this boutique changes the window display at least every 30 minutes. The only time we pass by and see the same outfits hanging is after they've closed.

The butcher

Entrance into the parking garage. You'd think that since the first floor is filled with shops and restaurants that the parking lot would be in the basement, but you're wrong. Those two garages are car elevators to take vehicles to the parking on floors 2 and 3.

Hardware store


Movie rental and book store


Another hair shop


Another boutique


Bicycle shop


This octopus restaurant is also usually pretty crowded.



A cod soup restaurant


And, this seafood restaurant brings us back to Liquor Beer Cabin!
The end.