Culturewalk: Toys, Toys, Toys, Chicken

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Taekwon V

Growing up, I remember watching Taekwon V with my mother on a tiny black and white TV with aluminum balls around the antennas. A single move might have disturbed the picture so I remember watching it perfectly still. In Korea, Taekwon V was all we knew and it was the robot warrior we all wanted to have.

I remember that I saved up money to buy a figurine once and it was my treasure. Going to the Toy Museum in Insadong brought back a lot of memories. It is a fascinating museum with toys from all over the world. There were G.I. Joes and Star Wars figurines and even old gameboys and an ancient cabbage patch kids.

The one thing I really liked were the bags of marbles in the bags. It was a game that I would play in the sand with friends and I recall being good at it. Now, I don’t even remember how to play the game but I remember how I flicked the big marble with my thumb.

Dan

Totoman Toy Museum

Across from Samziegil on the third floor in Insadong.

Go out Anguk Station (line 3) Exit 5

All the G.I. Joes I wish I could have had

More Toys

My friends learning about Chickens at the the Chicken Art Museum

About the Author

Daniel

Daniel Gray is a Korean adoptee that returned to Korean in 2005 because he wanted to try and find his birth mother and to learn about Korean culture. He started a restaurant review blog in 2007, www.seouleats.com, that became a local and international hit. He and his blog has been featured in the New York Times, Monocle Magazine, The Kimchi Chronicles, Bizarre Foods, Rudy Maxa, Olive Magazine, Euronews and much more. He now is a partner at O’ngo Food Communications (www.ongofood.com), which is a culinary tourism and consulting company that offers Korean cooking classes and restaurant tours to travelers. Their food tours and cooking classes are ranked as one of the top attractions in Seoul according to tripadvisor.