Category: Korea 2025

We had one final day to rest and be tourists on Friday, and after breakfast, Amelia and I got coffee at a spot right beside our hotel called Abu’s. I got cold brew with thick vanilla cream mixed in, and it tasted as delicious as it looks in the photo below! If you haven’t been…

We finally had our performance of Haydn’s Nelson Mass and Bruckner’s Te Deum today! We had free time until we headed to the rehearsal in the afternoon, so I spent my morning getting espresso and perusing a nearby bookstore. The bookstore was huge and even had piano sheet music, so I got a collection of…

The Cardinal Singers had free time this morning before another evening rehearsal, and we made the most of it with a group trip to Korea’s Blue House. As you may guess from the name, the Blue House is Korea’s White House, and it has served as the presidential residence and office since 1948 with one…

After a thrilling concert last night, we had free time for the majority of the day today to rest and be tourists, so I headed back to Lotte World Mall and Tower with Amelia and a small group to see more of it and do some shopping! We started with the aquarium, and it was…

Today, we had our last a cappella concert of the tour at Lotte Concert Hall! Lotte Concert Hall is one of Korea’s best performance venues, but what’s truly unique about it is that it’s inside a shopping mall! Lotte World Mall is one of the largest in the world, and it’s many floors contain the…

Today, we departed Daejeon and returned to Seoul! We left Daejeon around 9:30, but I made sure to grab coffee from a nearby shop called “Mega Coffee” first. In Korean cities, I’ve noticed and really like that most of the coffee shops have walk-up windows to order from the sidewalk. This is a small thing,…

Today marked one of our longest concerts of the trip in one of the largest concert venues I’ve ever performed in! We had free time in the morning so I got coffee and got some work done before having a chicken, noodles, and veggies bowl for lunch later. At about 1:00, we departed for our…

Today we had an evening concert with the Suncheon City Chorale, but first, we got to start our morning with a tour of the Naganeupseong Folk Village. The village was about 40 minutes by bus from our hotel, and it is an ancient, walled-town essentially served as a “county seat” for the area during the…

Today, we departed Yeosu to travel to Suncheon and begin rehearsing for a combined concert with the Suncheon City Chorale. While I do wish we could’ve had more time in Yeosu, today’s travel was much more manageable due to Suncheon only being about 40 minutes away. We went straight to a combined rehearsal with the…

At about 8:30am this morning, we departed Yongin for an excursion to the port city of Yeosu on the southern Korean coast! Today was a really valuable rest day for the group after a thrilling concert the night before, and we got to take in some stunning natural beauty as well. Yeosu was quite a…