Seoul Warnings Or Dangers Tips by schwein Top 5 Page for this destination

Watch out for ratcakes!

Seoul is a pretty dirty city.

There are very few garbage cans along sidewalks, so people just litter.
You will see piles of garbage in the street 3 or 4 or 5 feet high, especially after holidays.

This place is heaven if you are a rat.
They mostly come out at night, but are around in the daytime, too.

Be prepared: you will see rat pancakes quite often, flattened by cars in the street.
Or on the sidewalk, as cars drive there too.

Crazy taxi drivers

One of the first things every new person to Korea notices is that there are roughly 10 million cars in and around the general Seoul area.
Many of the cars are taxis, and they need drivers to drive them.

Most of them are crazy.

Or at least drive like it; traffic rules in Seoul are lax and not really enforced, giving them free reign.

Drivers will run red lights, blast through crowded crosswalks, drive in oncoming lanes, and try to rip you off if they think you're either drunk or just don't know where you're going. And that's in the daytime, when they're sober...

The cause of many accidents, and the bane of motorcyclists and urban bike riders.

Although entertaining if they hit another taxi, as the drivers will physically fight about who's fault the accident was.

Be sure to wear your seatbelt.

Noise!

If you are looking to visit a peaceful city, keep looking, and go elsewhere.

With roughly 20 million people in and around Seoul, there is constant noise and bustle around the clock. Everything from traffic, roadwork, drunk asses in the street at 4am, to the constant sound of construction.
The only time there isn't noise in the city is during Chuseok, when almost everyone heads to their family graves in the country. Then the city is so quiet it's eerie...