Country Info
- Seoul
- Capital
- Won (KRW)
- Currency
- 47,904,370
- Population
- KR
- Country Code
Seoul Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Seoul, Korea Rep.
Korean Culture
This is a top pick! ... official visitors book on display, This was a fascinating exhibition which also supplied some interesting information about Seoul. We also visited a traditional Korean village called Namsangol Hanok village. Here we got to experience traditional ...
Don't Count Your Luck
This is a top pick! ... couriered my passport to the travel agent within an hour. There are times when I truly appreciate being in a country like Korea, where crimes like theft are relatively rare. In another country this story might not have had such a happy conclusion. I ...
The Life & Seoul
This is a top pick! ... the mountain were great as you can see other nearby mountains and the city below. We decided to visit an Electronics Market in Seoul on Monday morning. As Korea is home to 'Samsung' and 'LG' we were hoping to find some new products that are not yet out ...
The DMZ
This is a top pick! ... on the tour was the 3rd infiltration tunnel. This was one of four tunnels found by the South Koreans that leads directly to Seoul from North Korea. The tunnel is small, dark and damp. It really puts the threat of an invasion into perspective. When the ...
Korea - In Transit
This is a top pick! ... me every 2 hours. I tried one of their a Korean style rice dishes and it was really good. The 23 degrees in Seoul is so humid it feels like the equivalent to Melbourne's 30 degrees. I lucked out in seating arrangements and looks like ...
seoul
This is a top pick! ... of them are completely shit soul-less tack, based on the American culture that inflicts most things aged under 25 in Seoul. Jinie explained that Koreans take their knowledge of America almost exclusively through Hollywood and MTV. Why they want to base ...
Signs, Signs, Everywhere A Sign
This is a top pick! ... when we arrived after a grueling red-eye flight. We were also greeted by that most delightful creature- the airport bureaucrat. Korea is another of those countries that puts your luggage through another scan before you're allowed into the country, and ...
Look! A dog on the ground!
This is a top pick! ... have been stuffed taking the subway home, so she handed over her remaining won to a cab driver to take back to the other side of Seoul. I loped home, heavy with the weight of my hangover and soju regret. Can I just say it one more time? It's hard to ...
The Big Wet
This is a top pick! ... through water a couple of feet deep to get from point A to point B is not the most appealing of prospects considering Korea never really got around to building a sealed sewerage system, and the fact that the filth one usually tries to avoid stepping in ...
Seoul - Day 137-139
This is a top pick! Day 137 - 08/07/08 Jumped on the bus from Kowloon to the Airport this morning at 5am to catch my 8am flight to Seoul, South Korea. Just made it to the airport before check-in closed due to the bus taking some obscure route which it didn't take in the ...
McDonald Flavoured Underpants
This is a top pick! ... were generous, but I thought that was just really lovely. I'm spending my days at the moment going between Sogang University in Seoul at a teacher training course with 65 other new recruits and the other time in observation classes at my school in Juyup. ...
Happy Birthday Buddah
This is a top pick! ... this country and forcing kids to stop speaking their own language, especially when they misinterpret the rule and run around saying "No Korea!" It's a little cringe-worthy, but it's a rule their parents want enforced. Whatever. They are soaking it up like ...
Korean War Memorial
This is a top pick! ... got it all taken care of but it'll take a week to process (I had to pay $50 extra for that privilege), so I'm kinda stuck in Seoul for the next 7 days. I also had to go to the USO to pay for a DMZ tour for John and Claire (I was gonna join but the ...
The 20 night wait, Part I
This is a top pick! · Seoul, South Korea · GMT +8:00 hours All too familiar 20 nights. That's how much time we have to kill between leaving our now-only-a-fond-memory KE camp on November 30th and reporting for our next contract on December 20th. But, having to kill ...
Seoul Searching
This is a top pick! · Seoul, South Korea · GMT + 8hrs Seoul Searching So I've spent the last 11 days in Seoul just waiting to leave. Yes, I've had stuff to do, just not 11 days worth of stuff to do. So basically I've just been waiting. Again. Were I really bored ...
The 20 night wait, Part II
This is a top pick! ... While you'll find it hard to find them in either Ireland or Canada, you can still rent VHS movies over here in Korea (at least in this area of Seoul you can). We went to rent a DVD the other night using Jays membership only to find that DVD's were few ...
Dominoes and Monopoly (or) First Impressions
This is a top pick! ... Australia to shame. They are absolutely, incomprehensibly odd. As if post-modernism is a trait to be highly regarded in Korea's youngens. More recognisably, I found Barney the Purple Dinosaur, Tom and Jerry, and Pokemon translated into Korean. (And yes, ...
Happy New Year!
This is a top pick! ... had to have our passports checked and wear badges. We visited the 3rd Infiltration Tunnel (built by North Korea, headed directly towards Seoul), Dora Observatory (where we could see North Korea under heavy military supervision), Dorason Train Station (the ...
TGIO
This is a top pick! ... Meg is no exception. Game Over indeed The first entry in this travelogue poses the 'wondering how far we'll go' question. Well, Seoul, Korea is the answer. Yep, Meg is heading home in 4 days, back to the comforts of Canada for some well needed TLC. ...
A Knock at the Door
This is a top pick! ... tree. To the north, on a clear day, is Inwangsan in the distance. Running through the center is Toegyero, one of Seoul's main thoroughfares. It's a bit like having a place over Broadway looking north onto Times Square, though at times the height makes ...
Party Hearty
This is a top pick! ... along to Bette Davis Eyes a little louder? I've been wondering this, because all the teachers I've met since arriving in Korea lead lives such as these. We are the models of sobriety and good behaviour at work, instilling virtues examples into the ...
Korea's cullinary weapons of mass destruction
This is a top pick! ... make, and will keep for many weeks in the fridge, slowly growing tangier. kimchi There are many types of kimchi eaten in Korea. Baechu kimchi, the most common variety, is made with Chinese cabbage. To make a batch of baechu kimchi: 1. 5 ...
Back on familiar ground
This is a top pick! · Seoul, South Korea · GMT +8:00 hours Fast Forward Okay, so here I am diving headlong into an entry from Seoul, where we arrived yesterday. I know, I know. You're probably wondering where the entries for Macedonia, Bulgaria and Turkey are? Well, ...
The Faceless Killer
This is a top pick! ... how the telling of news reflects the values, norms and biases of the society on which it reports. While not as pronounced in Korea as in neighbouring Asian countries, keeping "face" is still a societal imperative. Because of this, the images in stories ...
A Summing Up
This is a top pick! ... the things that await me. I've had a great year in Korea, no matter the many ups and downs, and as my exit approaches I'm the happiest man in Seoul, not because I'm leaving, but because in the end I did do it well, and will do it even better down the ...
I'm Afraid of Americans
This is a top pick! ... down the street in Itaewon in packs. Itaewon is the main foreigner's neighbourhood and close to the largest US military base in South Korea. A small mercy of the night life here is that servicemen from the base have a 1 a.m. curfew, so most clear out ...
Climbing Mount Inwang
This is a top pick! ... . There was free spring water from designated taps, and many public toilets before the climb got onerous. (On a side note, Korea has excellent public facilities. Even subway bathrooms are relatively clean, and it's the law that any building over 5 floors ...
Boys Night Out
This is a top pick! ... outnumber women. Or just an unconventional way for horny people to hook up. They are certainly an extension of Korea's slightly more convoluted than average take on sexuality, where homosexuality "doesn't exist", condoms are unfashionable, and ...