SCHOOL FOOD

At first the school food here felt really strange compared to Finland. You get many different small dishes at once, you don't get to take your own food, instead the cafeteria staff puts the food to the plates and you just pick one plate of each food item. The prices are pretty much the same as in Finland; 2,500-3,900W (2-3€). However, it varies a lot whether I eat at a school cafeteria or at a restaurant near by our university campus, because there are a lot of choices and the prices at most restaurants are only a little bit more expensive than at school.
There are three school cafeterias we have tried so far. First one is in the same building as our dormitory, and the other is in the next dormitory building where we can go through an inside corridor. The third one, in my opinion, is the best one, located in the brand new business & economics building. Last two pictures are from there and the first two pictures are from our dormitory's cafeteria.
    

Lunch during Chuseok last week. There were these traditional rice cakes (white and green in the picture) which were really good! I heard that there are some traditional rice shops where you can get these. Luckily a Korean friend also brought us some more of them to eat from her holiday at home :) Otherwise lunch consisted of sweet potatoes, kimchi, veery spicy pork and some soup that was quite good.

 

Spicy but good, tteokbokki (also rice cakes) is one of my absolute favorite foods here! This time at lunch there was also some pork, seaweed soup which I didn't really like, rice, very spicy kimchi, some noodles and radish.

 

The new cafeteria at business & economics building serves more international kind of food. Usually at lunch there are some kind of cutlets, either meat, fish or chicken, some salad with a very sweet dressing, usually strawberry, rice and - my favourite -  spinach soup!

So in conclusion, I mostly like the school food here, it's only difficult when sometimes the food is so spicy you literally almost cannot eat it. But you can get used to it bit by it, I think. And one other thing about all of the food here is that there is no salt whatsoever. Even if you order fries at the nearby McDonalds', they are not salty :D But it's a bit healthier that way, since at least in Finland salt is used a lot in all foods.