South Korea Travel Blogs

People i met here, who contributed to and improved my trip: Engin (Turkey), Joon (South Korea) Unfortunately my flight from Jeju-do arrived into Incheon airport, so i was still left with a fair distance to reach Insadong. I checked with the airport information desk about the new subway line that i…

You're in for a long one boys and girls -- better grab a snack and settle in.Yesterday was my first and only full day in Busan.  Heeding the advice of my guesthouse owner, I skipped Beomeosa Temple, which is hailed by everything I've read as THE sight in Busan (but of course is also out of the…

Last night was another great experience abroad. Brittany and I went over to Nicole's studio apartment and hung out with her for quite sometime. Her studio apartment rocks! It's bigger than the one Britt and I are currently staying in. It even has a loft (which would be my room presumably) and a…

These are various pictures I took while we were driving around the city, either on the Seoul City Bus Tour or on our trip up to the DMZ.  Seoul Skies First and foremost, you can't help but notice that you can hardly see anywhere in Seoul! I wondered if it was fog, pollution, or what.  …

    The day I left NYC for South Korea was filled with activities. I worked a 12-hour shift the night before. And when I reached home, I used my sleeping time to clean my apartment, do laundry, and finish packing. Then at 4pm, I left for classes. I had two classes that night from 455…

I arrived at Incheon around 7pm and took one of those organized buses into the city. I had just spent the last two weeks traveling through China and I was a little burnt by this point, so I hadn't done any homework beforehand. I realized I had no clue where I was being taken. I randomly picked a yo…

Hello guys! I've just came back from Seoul. As always - I don't have free time (see: trip to Stockholm), so I'm just uploading photos. Korea was GREAT:) [learning, eating, drinking, singing, not sleeping;) sightseeing and having fun - wonderful time]. Hope to go back there as soon as possible...

The Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) is a 2-1/2 mile wide strip of land, barren of humans and machines, that serves as a buffer between North and South Korea. It was established in 1953 after a cease fire agreement that effectively ended three years of bloody conflict that took over 3 million lives.…

My french friend Mathieu had to go to another country till 2nd in Jan for visa. And he will come in Japan again next 3months. I decided to go to Korea with him. I needed to go to somewhere because I didn't make travel for long time. Fortunately Busan is nearer and cheaper country from Japan. I wan…

My good friend Terry has a couple kids, one ten and one seven, really great kids actually. Of course they love things like Disneyland and Seoul happens to have such a theme park. The weather was warm and nice and I’ve never been to a theme park outside the US, so it sounded like a fun idea to che…

Some more pictures of South Korea. 28 July - 06 September 2007

Ever since returning from Hawaii on the 9th we've been trying to get back into the swing of things.  Initally we had to fight jetlag and then we had to conquer the impulse to hop back on a plane bound for Hawaii.  All of the snow had melted in Gwangju by the time we returned so we had not…

Yes Hongdae.. :D thats the place you have to go when you want to have a lot of fun! It is an university area with a lot of nice restaurants and bars/nightclubs. You take the metro and stop at the station Hongik uni. After spending a whole day with my new friends we went there to Hongdae and met mor…

Han River or Duksoo Palace Stone wall trail would be good places for a walk. If you want to take a walk while shopping, then I would recommend Shinchon, Hongik Univ, Myungdong, the East Gate, the South Gate, or C.O.E.X(in Kangnam). Namdaemoon(the South Gate) has many whole sales stores, so you can think of a huge market. Myungdong has many maker shops. Gyung Bok Palace can be divided into 8 sections. Most recommended sections for tour are Geun Jung Jun, Gyung Hwe Roo and Hyang Won Jung.

early start for the jsa tour... got to lotte hotel, paid and waited... bus to dmz and into the jsa.. into the building and the north! ..watched by dprk soldiers through binoculars, saw dprk tourists!.. rather surreal experience.. can't wave, point, etc... jongol for lunch, change buses, into…