"I've got a ticket to ride..."
is the song that comes to mind. The lunar New Year Holiday and the Olympics are in full swing. Train tickets are not easy to come by in South Korea this weekend. We got our tickets a month in advance to visit my mother-in-law in her hometown. The online sale started at 6 am but we couldn't get any tickets because there must have been a quarter of the nation trying to buy tickets at the same time.

There was a long line when the tickets went on sale. Some people waited in Seoul station overnight. I got my tickets from a small travel agency in a large private University Hospital. I waited about 20 minutes and that was it. This brings us to today's Groovy School Trivia question: Which is faster the ITX or KTX train in Korea?

To get to our home town we have a choice to take KTX or ITX. The acronym KTX stands for the Korean Train Express. It is an express bullet train that travels at speeds close to 200 mph. This train can get us to our home town station in 15 minutes. ITX stands for Intercity Train Expresss. The ITX will take about an hour to get to our hometown station. The ITX is a very comfortable train with spacious seats, legroom and a foot rest. The KTX may not be as comfortable but it is much quicker.

The biggest difference is the price. The KTX ticket is three times more expensive and the taxi ride to my in-laws is thirty minutes from the KTX station but only ten minutes from the ITX station. Really we were just glad to have any ticket.

We got to the home town safe and sound and now we are watching the Winter Olympics with Grandma and Grandpa. It's going to be a great lunar New Year with family and as a bonus I get two weeks off from school!!

Pyeung Chang Korea

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Have a great Lunar New Year!!

How do you get to your hometown?

Do you celebrate Lunar New Year?