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Kim Shin-young "When I listen to spring songs, I can feel it with my whole body."
The 51st episode of Channel S's 'Might I Go Again', which aired on the 23rd, featured the 'Best 5 Cities with Beautiful Spring' featuring rapper and broadcaster Sleepy along with travel partners Kim Shin-young and Lee Seok-hoon. On this day's broadcast, to commemorate the fast approaching spring, the most spring among 'Amsterdam, the city of tulips', 'Brilliant cherry blossom ending in Okinawa', 'Singapore, the garden of Asia', 'Chiang Mai, where love blooms', and 'Chefchaouen, a city with sky blue emotions' I chose a beautiful city.
While Singapore ranked 5th and Amsterdam ranked 3rd, a trip to Chiang Mai, Thailand, ranked 4th with beautiful spring, was revealed. Thailand is a Southeast Asian country where summer comes to mind first among the four seasons. However, Chiang Mai, Thailand, introduced in 'A Map to Go Again', provided healing with the gentle scent of spring. Just watching the salad mukbang using edible flowers in an eco-friendly cafe decorated with colorful fresh flowers made me feel refreshed. Lee Seok-hoon expressed his admiration, saying, “When I think of Chiang Mai, I only thought of summer, but spring is also pretty.” In addition, 'Mae Pa Luang Garden', which used to be a poppy field but has now been reborn as a beautiful garden, stole the eye with flowers in full bloom.
Chefchaouen, which ranked second, was a city located in Morocco where the scorching sun, heat, and desert come to mind first rather than the warm spring. However, the spring in Moschefchaouen, Morocco, where I traveled online that day, was refreshing. The old town medina, surrounded by blue, has a cool and open feel, adding to the fun of looking at the alleys. The sight of a proxy traveler wearing bright yellow traditional Moroccan clothing and taking pictures of his life with a blue alley in the background stimulated people's desire to travel. In addition, an online trip to enjoy the spring of Morocco, including 'Ras El Ma', a village temple in the alley of the Spanish Mosque, and 'Kasbah Fortress', where you can see the beautiful night view, was offered vicarious satisfaction.
The long-awaited first place was Okinawa. Flower Sister, the official online mukbang server of ‘Mid I Go Again’, appeared as a proxy traveler. Flower Sister enjoyed her time at a traditional Japanese teahouse-style cafe with cherry blossoms visible from the front. In addition, at the street food stalls in Kukje Street, the perfect mukbang was satisfied, starting with draft beer and whole pork belly, followed by seaweed noodles, sourdough, assorted chicken skewers and highballs, and ending with a fish cake set. In addition, I fully enjoyed the spring of Okinawa by enjoying diving in the blue cave.
'Again Map' fully captures the spring of Chiang Mai, Thailand, Okinawa, Japan, and Chefchaouen, Morocco, introducing the charm of a different season that was previously unknown, and providing healing to the home theater.
Kim Ji-won, Ten Asia reporter bella@tenasia.co.kr
