Seoul: Street Art In Ihwadong (Part II)

From the P-turn, we kept walking straight up until we saw this yellow wall painting on our left.  It was a shame to have a lorry block our view of the sunny wall painting that day. *ARGH*

We turned right at this spot and spotted this pretty ‘Flower Staircase’. It is a lovely photo spot, isn’t it?

Art, or graffiti? It is all a matter of perspective.

Some degree of graffiti does anyone hardly any harm, does it? Dspecially if they are sketches such as theses. There are times when I wished we didn’t clean off the graffiti painted on our MRT trains by those two vandals some time back.

We climbed up the steep flight of steps up the ‘Flower Staircase’, saw more quirky wall murals, got totally lost in the back alleys.

At this point, we backtracked, going down the ‘Flower Staircase’ to the place where we saw the yellow wall painting that was blocked by the lorry, and continued walking straight ahead. Then we looked right and saw another pretty staircase!

I like that these wall paintings do not look contrived and harmonize well with the surroundings.  I am impressed that the Korean government went to such lengths to jazz up an old neighbourhood, and I hope the rustic charm of this place will not disappear if this area gets redeveloped.

Is that a painting of a fish, or a bird…?

Just across the alley from this staircase is g{i}ven, a quaint little shop that sells hand-made dolls crafted by the owner.

We took fairly long break here, where we had coffee, oohed and aahed over the beautiful hand-made country dolls, quilts, purses, bags, etc. As expected, we didn’t leave the shop empty-handed.  WE COULDN’T HAVE…!

More photos of the handicrafts in this shop later on.

More posts on Street Art In Ihwadong here:

Street Art In Ihwadong (Part I)

Street Art In Ihwadong (Part III)

A Quaint Doll Shop In Ihwadong