We arrived in Seoul on Sunday evening on a direct flight from Toronto. We had stayed up most of Friday night trying to get a head start on adjusting to the time change, and slept most of the 15.5h flight. Our internal clocks are now completely messed up. Door-to-door it was just over 20 hours, however with the lost day crossing the dateline it took all weekend.
Incheon International is about an hour outside the downtown core. We had debated trying to take the subway, but Seoul is in a cold snap right now (-12C when we landed) so took a taxi instead. (We brought winter clothing for Seoul but it was all packed up).
Outside of rush hour, a taxi is not too bad an option, about the same cost as two fares on the express bus. We used Naver to show the taxi driver which hotel we were staying at, as soon as he saw the directions he knew exactly where it was. (Naver is the app of choice here cause Google maps has limited functionality in South Korea).
Maybe because we were jetlagged we hardly remembered any of the Korean we had learnt on Duolingo. We even had to look up thank-you again (감사합니다). I sort of remember the alphabet.
Anyways we were quickly checked into our hotel. We were out of steam so just had a snack in the hotel lounge and then called it a night.
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