I traveled to Daejeon with friends on a five hour bus ride from Busan. We went to enjoy One Drop East, Apollo 18, Burning Hepburn, Whatever That Means, Seoul City Suicides, Hwanan Gom, Ska Sucks!, Attacking Forces, G-Jay, Vidulgi Ooyoo, The Army, Dirty Gangnueng, Kickscotch, No Eazy, etc. for free.

Apparently there was supposed to be over 300 vendors from around the world selling international food, beer and wine. I could only spot about a dozen of these vendors. I enjoyed a 8,000 Won Chinese beer and extremely small 4,000 Won kabob.

I was enjoying the rock music, even if I didn’t understand the Korean bands. Then, around midnight, the show was shut down by the police because of noise complaints. Yeah, just try to piece that logic together.

After a barrage of text messages and scrambling (aka running our asses off) for a taxi, my friends and I made it to downtown Daejeon to see One Drop East bring down the house.

I took KTX back the next morning and was home within two hours. I think that will be my last trip away from Busan for a bit.