Coffee expo
Megan (newsbeat) and I spent Sunday afternoon at the Coffee expo, where we indulged in plenty of free coffee and ice-cream.
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| Straws and chocolate 🙂 |
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| Weird bubble tea and toxic looking pink ice slushy stuff |
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| Koreans love name badges – I have a growing collection. |
What else would you expect to find at a Korean coffee exhibition? Alcohol! That’s right there was a bar serving free drinks and demonstrating various cocktail bar tricks to keep the crowds entertained.
Afterwards we went to the Cinema to watch ‘Oblivion’. Whilst we were struggling to purchase our tickets from the automated machine, a lovely Korean student came to our rescue. It turned out that she wanted us to complete a short questionnaire, we were happy to oblige. Even happier when we realised the survey was about Makgeoli (Makkoli), in the short time we have lived in Korea, we like to think that we’re becoming quite the rice wine experts (it’s much nicer than that Soju stuff, which we can still only just about manage to drink with a beer chaser). After completing the survey, we also received complimentary face masks for our time and effort (more free stuff!).
Oblivion wasn’t a great film, too much Tom Cruise for my liking. I’m not a big fan. It’s not particularly original. Newsbeat drew reference to similarities with the Matrix, which reminded me of ‘Minority report’ another sci-fi with Cruise, this was made ten years or so ago and is also better. The end is confusing, we didn’t really care about the characters because the acting generally fails to stir any emotion, it gets slightly yawnsome, and it left far to many gaps at the end for us to bridge ourselves – we gave up thinking about it.
