About

Korea is one of the easiest countries in the world to travel in — once you know a few local rules. Foreign visitors, though, often hit the same small walls: the map app doesn't give walking directions, a card gets declined at a great restaurant, or a kiosk only speaks Korean.

This site collects clear, practical answers to those everyday questions. We focus on transport, payment, ordering food, and getting around, plus honest picks for where to eat. Everything is written for first-time visitors.

Where the facts come from

Opening hours, closing days, admission prices and transport details are taken from the operator's own published information wherever it exists — a museum's visitor page, a park authority's notice, a carrier's fare table — and from public bodies such as the Korea Heritage Service or a city government where it does not. Every published article cites the sources behind its facts, and every citation records the date that source was read, so you can see how old a claim is before you rely on it. Where two sources disagree, we resolve it and cite the one we followed instead of repeating both.

What is a fact here, and what is our opinion

These are kept apart on purpose. Hours, prices, closing days and official access rules are sourced facts, and they carry a citation. Which place is worth your morning, what to see first, what to skip, which of two similar attractions suits you better and how long to allow — those are our editorial judgement, and they carry no citation because no source can supply them. If a recommendation on this site is wrong, it is wrong because we judged it badly, and we would like to hear about that too.

Guides and place records are different things

The site holds two kinds of page. A guide is something we wrote: a comparison, a route, an argument about what is worth your time. A place record is a reference entry — the address, the hours, how to get there, what it costs — that our guides draw on and link to. Some place records have a full write-up behind them and some are only the reference facts, and the thin ones are not offered to search engines as though they were articles. We keep them because the guides, lists and itineraries are built on top of them.

Photographs

Photographs are hosted by us rather than hotlinked, and each one records who took it and under what licence — mostly Creative Commons or the Korea Open Government Licence, credited beneath the image. A few are supplied by the business they show, with that business's written permission; those are credited differently and explained on our Terms page.

How this site is kept up to date

Articles are written and maintained as plain files and published straight to the web, in English and Korean together — a change to one is made alongside the other rather than left for later. Facts are re-checked against their own sources rather than on a fixed calendar: each source carries the date it was last read, and the ones that go stale fastest — opening hours, fares, admission — are the ones checked first. There are no accounts and no comments. Where analytics or advertising are enabled, our Privacy Policy describes them.

What we do not claim

We are an independently run site, not a tourism board, a travel agency or a newsroom, and we do not claim to have visited every place we write about. What we can tell you is where each fact came from and when it was last checked, which is why the citations and dates are on the page rather than hidden. Details change faster than any site can follow, so for anything that costs money or decides your day, check the official source before you go — our disclaimer puts this in full.

Corrections and contact

Corrections are the most useful thing you can send us. If a price, an opening time, a closed day or a payment rule is wrong or has changed, tell us on the contact page and say which page you saw it on — we will check it against the source and update the article and its date. Questions and suggestions for what to cover next are welcome on the same address.