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About the conference
I had given a 3 days training at TyphoonCon23 which is an offensive security conference organised each year. This time it was organised in Seoul, South Korea. I had to travel to Seoul for this conference. It was a well organised conference and everything has been taken care with full attention to details. All the attendees and speakers got nice Swags too :)
About the City
I really liked Seoul, It is very developed city, I was very impressed with the infrastructure, people and atmosphere. From landing at the airport to reaching at my hotel, it was a smooth experiance.
I took a bus which was actually a limousine bus. It starts from the airport terminal and dropped just in front of my hotel which was Marriott, Namdemun.
Hotel and Location
Hotel is situated at Namdemun and the location is very nice. Its very close to famous namdemun market. If you are at this location, you can walk around and explored few places. Also commuting using public transport is a breez. You can get a T-One card from any shop and load some money. Note that to buy T-One card, you can use credit card but to load money, they need cash only. So better to take out some cash from ATM.
There are bus stop near by, Metro station and more there is underground market as well from where yo u can buy some stuff for yourself or family.
Conference Training Experience
For my training we had 11 people. It was a 3 day long training and I really enjoyed delivering this course. few people had lot of knowledge on fuzzing and I enjoy talking to them and listening and sharing experience with them on fuzzing. My training was mostly focused on Linux and I covered variety of topics from How does AFL++ works, coverage guided fuzzing, binary instrumentation and every had lot of hands on exercises for attendees so that people can not only learn theory but try the approach themselves and ask me any questions.
I enjoyed answering their questions and helping them solve their queries. Overall feedback was very positive and I am looking forward to visit next year as well.
Food
People there mostly eat non-veg so me being vegetarian it was a bit of challenge but there are many small hotels near by who has vegetarian options like pizza, fries etc. there was also subway which has veg options. I also took some ready to eat food items from here and some home made stuff so it was not a big issue for me.
Travelling back
I booked Air India flight from Delhi-Seoul-Delhi. I had to travel from Bangalore to Delhi first and then to Seoul. Also while coming back I had to travel to Delhi and come back to Bangalore.
While my onward journey was fine, on my return journey my Air india flight from Seoul to Delhi was 3.30 hours late which led to miss my flight back to Bangalore. I had to rebook another flight as they were not on same PNR. I also found that my flight from Seoul landed at Delhi T3 but my Bangalore flight is from Delhi T1. So I had to take a bus from T3 to T1 in a bus. Bus driver was not driving but seems like he was flying on Delhi Roads ;) I reached back on time at T1 and did my checkin.
Finally I managed to reach back to Bangalore on same day even though I was too much exhausted.
Conclusion
Overall it was a great experience travelling to Seoul and delivering training. It was nice to meet many people and make new friends. I am looking forward to delivering training at more conferences in future till then good bye!