South Korea travel tales and tips

South Korea travel tales

Our customers share their travelling experiences in South Korea. Read about first hand stories on travel tips and guides, events, entertainment,shopping, food, business and transportation. Also, you might want to read our Jeju city guide, and Seoul city guide.

C Basilides	19 July 2003
Stayed at Renaissance Seoul Hotel - Seoul, South Korea.
I recommend visit at Namdaemun Shopping Street. The souvenir items are really cheap. Seoul is generally clean. It's easy to go around from place to place as long as you carry a map. You will hardly get lost if you just follow the lines of the subway. The Good Morning Tour is okay. The black limo taxi is more expensive than the gray or white ones. If you can't find an English-speaking Korean to ask for directions, then don't. Koreans who don't understand English won't be able to help you anyway and they usually give the wrong sign language. The map is more reliable. Also take the River cruise at night to see Seoul's 27 bridges wonderfully decorated with multicolored lights. We went into a Korean Restaurdant at back of the hotel where nobody can speak English. We had to point our orders (good thing they have pictures!) and do sign language. It was rather difficult and nobody showed us how to eat the food. It's quite different from our usual food. We figured out anyway on our last day of tour when we went into a restaurant of similar kind and a lady was kind enough to demonstrate to us how to eat their authentic Korean food.
M Danura	13 July 2003
Stayed at President Seoul, Hotel - Seoul, South Korea.
Very close to Myong-dong! I could go to one of the famous sauna places in Myong-dong by walk about 7 mins at 1am!
T Drown	13 July 2003
Stayed at Hamilton Hotel - Seoul, South Korea.
Shopping in Itaewon and Hyundai department store was lots of fun and productive. The subway system in Seoul was excellent and very eay to use.
S Tsafrir	04 July 2003
Stayed at Pacific Hotel - Seoul, South Korea.
The hotel is near the Namdemon market, a good location for shopping. The subway is a good way of getting around, but taxis are not expensive.
J Phillips	02 July 2003
Stayed at Sofitel Ambassador Seoul - Seoul, South Korea.
Learn to use the subways and buses, the traffic will have you paying huge cab fares. Shopping is great in Dongdaemun and Iteawon. Nightlife is great too. A fun place to visit.
M Milne	01 July 2003
Stayed at Crown Insadong, Hotel - Seoul, South Korea.
I had a wonderful time in the area. The shops in the Insadong area are all staffed by friendly, helpful people and a credit to their profession and their nationality. The ease with which I was able to see the sites in the area and access the airport bus etc., was a time saving bonus. I can certainly recommend this hotel for value, proximity to locales and certainly the Insadong area is a 'tourist destination' in itself!!
L Birchley	29 June 2003
Stayed at Hamilton Hotel - Seoul, South Korea.
The best restaurant and place to go for a drink for foreigners in Seoul is the Three Alley Pub. It's located only a few hundred yards away.
L Lievan	29 June 2003
Stayed at Seoul Palace Hotel - Seoul, South Korea.
Great destination - Seoul. I live in another part of Ulsan and had not visited Seoul yet. I had a wonderful time - enjoying the foreigner's part of the city, Itaewon. I toured the war museum which was very well done and also viewed the city from the observatory of the highest building in Korea.
J Kim	28 June 2003
Stayed at Renaissance Seoul Hotel - Seoul, South Korea.
I got around by taxi most of time. There are two types of taxis. One is normal taxi and another one is Deluxe Taxi. They are very reasonably rated. Korean food is wonderful! I loved the food called Mak Gook-soo! The address is 4-4 JangKi Dong, Kimpo City, KyungKi Do. VERY GOOD!
L Larsen	28 June 2003
Stayed at Sofitel Ambassador Seoul - Seoul, South Korea.
For the first time travelling with our children (11 / 14) as backpackers, we got around in Korea in buses and trains. Public transport works extremely well! Our stops were: Seoul, Daechon Beach, Songnisan National Park, Gyeongju, Jeju island (Gwakji Beach + Soegwipo)- all in 15 days. In Seoul: Don't miss the dance / theatre performance in "Korean House". They have a very good souvenir shop, too. In Songnisan National Park: don't miss the Beopusa Temple, Buddha's etc. Except from Seoul we have been staying in yogwans and eating in small local places. We have had excellent menues for 5000 won/person and 4 people sleeping for 40.000 - 60.000 won. It's no problem to have family rooms. We have had a wonderful time. The Koreans are extremely nice and helpful people. Unfortunately only very few speak english, but we managed any way.

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