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Downtown Daegu
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Today I went to the downtown area of Daegu. I've been here tons of times shopping and walking around. It's a great place to walk around and people watch. There are normally lots of people and tons of cute girls, but I went during the day, so the streets were deserted compared to how packed they are later in the day and at night.
Downtown consists of numerous narrow streets packed full of small stores, a few big ones, and lots of places to eat. The store locations are in specific sections too. If you want a cell phone, there's a whole street of them. If you want shoes, there's a whole street of shoe stores. The majority of downtown is sectioned streets of whatever item you're looking for.
I walked around a little bit, had lunch at McDonalds, and got a haircut. I considered buying a Ghost Rider DVD, but I thought since it was released less than a month ago in USA and not even in Korean theaters until tomorrow, perhaps the quality of this "copy" wasn't so good.
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The above left picture is from a store I went to where Buddhist monks go to buy beads and other temple items. I bought an instrument monks use during their services for my good friend Jonathan in Chicago as well as beaded bracelets for many friends. Koreans are normally much smaller than your typical American, so the lady made all of the bracelets larger for me. She was very kind and even gave me a free bracelet and a trinket that she had put hand carvings on.
What I learned today about Korea: 1) I'm cute as teddy bear!