comparison essay

Last year, I visited Melbourne, Australia and I can’t forget that experience. While I was staying Australia, I can find some same things and difference. Because I thought Seoul and Melbourne are very different city, it makes me shocked. I can’t say what place is better or not, but they have different attractive aspects.

Park is my favorite place in Melbourne and Korea. When I was in Melbourne after have meals my friends and I go for a walk to park and relax in park. Whenever we have time, we brought snack and blanket then go to parks for tanning. In Korea, when I was young my family go to picnic to park every weeks. We played kite and ate lunch and snack. Both are one of my favorite moments in my life. On the other hand, there is different thing. There are a lot of parks in Melbourne I saw small parks and large ones. People lay on grass relaxed. All parks have grass so we can relax on grass. But in Korea, there is a little place to relax and they hardly have grass. So we sit on rock or cement.

One of my favorite things is both has unique shop. We can see many and unique shop in Hongdae or Apgujeong in Korea and City in Melbourne. Lots of cloth store, souvenir shop and various restaurants. Whereas Korean shops open till 9 or 10 p.m., Melbourne shops close 4p.m. so after 4p.m. in Melbourne we can’t shop or buy things because all store closed.

And I use public transportation every day in Korea and used in Melbourne. I’m sure both transportation fees are expensive. But they have different system of fare. There are tons of travelers in Melbourne so they have tickets for those people. They sell one day ticket, one week ticket, one month ticket. Each ticket can use every public transportations like buses, trains, trams. It’s for helping travelers. Because many travelers out of their money, they should save money so these system can help people. But if I live in Melbourne and I need just one or two ticket like 2-hours ticket then fee will be expensive. But in Korea, We have just one system. If I want to change buses or subway the company charges me another fee. But we can save money if I would use just one time a day.

I can’t say what’s better or not. I like grass and relaxing life in Melbourne, many unique shops and going park with my family in Korea. But if I have a chance to go Melbourne again I would go again.