Hanbok
Going on exchange means that you should take every opportunity given to you. Because if it goes wrong, you've got the university to fall back on and you're leaving for good in a few months anyway, so you don't have much to loose. But you do have to be careful with your spending in Korea, they have a huge consumer culture. Everything is about buying and spending here, and they don't see that as an issue. People buy 4 coffees a day without flinching, nd as a result there is a lot of personal debt on everyone's head, which doesn't seem to have impacted on the economy drastically just yet.
One thing i recommend doing is Hanbok. It's a traditional Korean dress that you can rent for around £10 for 3 hours and walk around all the palaces for free, no matter which city you are in. Korean's apparently do it when they are young, and when they are with their boyfriend. Apart from that it's apparently quite 'uncool'. But it's such a laugh as a tourist and makes you feel like royalty- you have to do a Korean style photoshoot with them just for icing on the cake. Photos to show your mum and no one else kind of thing.
(Definitely squeeze it in before it gets too hot- you don't want all those layers in 35 degrees and 80% humidity)
