Ilsan Vacation (April 2009)

My family regularly goes off to a 2-day to 3-day vacation to Ilsan City. Ilsan is a satellite city about 45 minutes away from Seoul using the subway. We go there for our winter and summer vacation days. Why Ilsan you may ask? Well it's a relatively new city with lots of parks, malls, restaurants and places to sightsee. That is also where hubby got his first job here in Korea and we really enjoyed our first year of living in Ilsan.

To quote Wikipedia: "Ilsan is the name of two districts or wards (Ilsandong-gu, literally “Eastern Ilsan district”, and Ilsanseo-gu, literally “Western Ilsan district”) in Goyang, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. Ilsan-gu has been divided into two wards of Ilsandong-gu and Ilsanseo-gu in May 16, 2005.

Compared to Deogyang-gu, which makes up the rest of Goyang, the recently developed area of Ilsan-gu is more organized and planned, and its residents are generally more affluent. Ilsan is located northwest of Seoul. Like other satellite cities in the Seoul National Capital Area such as Bundang and Pyeongchon, Ilsan was planned in order to alleviate housing shortages in the city of Seoul. Ilsan has experienced phenomenal growth in the past 15 years, usually drawing in younger generations of upper middle-class Koreans."


Now everytime we go for a vacation, it's a choice whether to go to Seoul or to Ilsan (usually we go for the latter). This time, the Biennial World Flower Festival was being held again in Lake Park (Hosu Park). The previous festivals were held inside trade exhibition halls and we didn't think it was going to be as beautiful and as fun.

So off we went to Ilsan for a 3-day vacation. Here are my men enjoying our hotel.


Here's hubby mugging for the camera. He usually parks himself at the free computer that is provided by the motel. That is the neat thing about motels here in Korea. Inside the rooms, you get a computer with speaker and free internet connection, 24/7. Some of the computers are even hooked up to the TV should you want to watch a DVD played on the computer and then watched on the TV screen (usually an LCD Plasma screen).



And while Daddy is on the internet, Billy plays with his PSP (Sony Personal Playstation). If you're looking for me, I am usually stretched out on the bed, watching tv or taking a nap. It's that time when we recharge our batteries and just have fun.

For pictures of Lake Park (specifically the Rose Garden) and the World Flower Festival, let me post that in the next few posts.

***The Rose Garden

***The World Flower Festival