Dr. Fish is something I heard about not long after I got to Korea and was very intrigued by this experience so it immediately went on my "When in Korea" bucket list. With the cold weather hitting it has lead us to finding more indoor activities instead of lounging in Olympic Park, which brought us to Dr. Fish. Dr. Fish is in a coffee shop in Gangnam. You have to order a drink at the coffee shop and then can pay an additional $2.00 for the Dr. Fish experience. Dr. Fish is considered a spa treatment, but I would say it was far from any spa I have been to. It is 2 different fish tanks with sucker fish that eat the dead skin cells off of your feet. After Alyssa, Molly & I enjoyed our teas and coffees it was time to go get our feet eaten by fish. We washed our feet and then decided we start with the little fish. These fish were a little bigger than minnows so I was not too scared of this tank. It was a very strange feeling, but it was manageable. If I could try to describe it for you I would say it is like having your feet in a pool and then someone squirting them with a hose under water up close. If you were the only one with your feet in they literally all attacked you but if there were more than one person it was much more manageable. cracking up and probably disturbing the whole coffee shop we decided we would move on to the big fish tank. Now these big boys were about the size of your middle finger and would all gather together and eagerly await your feet going into the tank. Now these fish were NOT manageable for me. I managed to keep my feet in for about 5 seconds before I had to pull them out. These fish were quite aggressive. This feeling was between the worst tickle you could imagine and someone scratching you. The only thing I could do in this tank was stick my heal at the top of the water. They would literally be nearly jumping out to try to be by my foot. This was a crazy experience and well worth the 2 bucks!
Silent Disco was also something that was on my "When in Korea" bucket list. I guess it is becoming increasingly more popular now but I had not heard of it before coming here. Silent Disco is usually held out in the open such as a park or in our case the sidewalk/streets of Gangnam. Everyone has headphones on and there is a DJ. To onlookers you just see a bunch of people dancing in silence, but to the silent disco partakers you feel like you are in the middle of club.
When we got to the Gangnam Silent Disco they had the DJ playing over the loud speakers and in the headphones but eventually solved the problem and just did everyones headphones. This silent disco was quite different than others that I have heard of around here because little did we know when we signed up it would lead to a parade through the streets of Gangnam. It was amazing! Seeing as we don't understand Korean all the sudden the pack of people just start running toward the street so naturally we followed the crowd. They had a mobile DJ that played music as we were running through the streets of Gangnam. We of course ended our parade rocking out to "Gangnam Style" at this huge light-up sign in Gangnam. If you watch the video on my facebook it really sounds like there is a live DJ at this point but it was just the crowd of people singing. Silent Disco is amazing and I really hope I can find one when I get home because I thoroughly enjoyed this event!
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