Full House Tour

I sure did not go here to Korea for pure leisure travel, but I think I deserve a breather from some corporate beating that I recently got, haha. So much about “saving faces” (just take this word as a great lesson from me, it would be too hard to explain), let me tour everyone to my first, out-of-Seoul trip. Yeeeha!

I was with CJ, a friend who took the same fate of living in Korea for her masteral studies, and it was an early day that we took for an agreed trip to the set of the famous Full House series located in Shindo Island. Armed with our fried chicken and pork cutlets cooked at four in the morning when we woke up, we took the forty five-minute subway ride from Gongdeok station to the Gimpo International Airport station, two hours after (6am). We then made a subway transfer from the Seoul Metropolitan Rapid Transit Corporation (SMRT) that we just rode, to the Gyeyang station of the AREX Express Subway (Turquoise Line). Fare from Gyeyang to Unseo, which is near the Incheon International Airport, is 2,700 won. From the said place, we took the 710 Green Bus somewhere near a Lotte Mart building there, and dropped off at a corner where made a quick walk to the Sammock Wharf.

After taking the subway and the bus, we ventured into a ferry ride from the wharf to Shindo Island. The ride took about fifteen minutes.

Getting off at the port in Shindo, we took another short bus trip in the island to that street corner leading to the location of the Full House, and rented bikes to bring ourselves to that exact place by the beach where the house is located! The sun was already at its peak at that time, but when we were on our bikes and were cycling the road to the Full House, the wind that went with our speed was sure very very cold. Winter is really coming, geez.

We had to pay 5,000 won to enter the house, and I could just think of how such TV hype can be such a great source of income, even at that state when we saw it. For one thing, the house looked a lot smaller than it was on television. But then of course, I was immediately reminded of how those media gadgets and tools can make the not so pretty-- beautiful, and the not so big-- very huge. Also, the house is a bit dilapidated. There were caretakers who welcomed and instructed us to wear the slippers that they provide inside the house, but it was just a bit disappointing that some walls are already dirt-stained, and the paint colors were changed. Even that big picture of Rain in his room has been replaced. Hehe.

Car hitching is actually a common thing in the island, considering that the buses that circle the island are very rare. So after returning our rented bikes on our way back home, which costed us 2,000 won by the way, we stood by a bus stop, and in a few minutes, without even having to do that famous thumb gesture for hitching, a Starex van already stopped in front of us to bring us back to the Shindo port. It was only on our way back that we paid for our round trip fare, which costs 3,600 won.

When we left the Full House set a few minutes before noon, people were just starting to arrive, and some of them were even just setting up their camps by the beach for some easy time. CJ and I though, really spent a good deal inside the house taking pictures and watching the television with the caretakers earlier. Oh, there's a room in the house by the way that sells Rain memorabilia. Here's what I bought, haha. Tamang fan lang.