Transport in South Korea: KTX, T-money Card and How to Get Around
KTX high-speed trains, the T-money card, the Seoul metro, intercity buses and flights to Jeju — everything you need to know about getting around South Korea before your trip.
South Korea Entry Requirements: K-ETA, e-Arrival Card and What You Need to Know
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Korean Food: What You Must Try on Your Trip
In Korea, food isn’t just food — it’s a social ritual, the glue of community, and the fastest route to the heart of the country’s culture. The first time you sit down at a restaurant table and five or six little dishes of side dishes you didn’t even order appear in front of you, you…
Jeju’s Women Divers: Where to See Them
Jeju Island has plenty to see: flowers growing inside volcanic craters, black basalt coastlines, mandarin orchards. But one sight stays with you more than any other — elderly women in rubber suits emerging from the sea with nets full of sea urchins and abalone. They are called haenyeo. Below, I explain who they are and…
South Korea Travel Guide: Seoul to Jeju
South Korea is one of those countries where in two weeks you can go from the neon of a twenty-million Seoul to an empty rocky coast where all you hear is wind and waves. The same map holds granite mountains above the city, quarters of six-hundred-year-old wooden houses, a volcanic island with a crater you…
South Korea on a Budget: Costs & How to Save
South Korea often ends up on people’s “too expensive for me” list — completely without reason. A country that looks like a city from the future can cost less than Western Europe, if you know where to eat, where to sleep and which card to use for transport. Here are concrete numbers in won and…