"Land of the Hermit Kingdom" South Korea by SLLiew

South Korea Travel Guide: 6,380 reviews and 17,032 photos

Corea or Korea

Seoul has very deep underground trains, nice artistic stations and trains. Korean alphabets are easy to learn.

Land of the Hermit Kingdom - South Korea

Was not used to eating with stainless steel chopsticks. Kimchi and beef do taste yummy.

Surprise to see so many churches in Korea. Soraksan, Pakmunjon (North Korea border) are worth going. I went all the way to Pusan or Busan.

Almost all the famous temples that i went were listed as UNESCO and has been rebuilt after being burnt down by the Japanese.

Korea is in between China and Japan and yet uniquely Korean.

Those who love Korean drama must visit Korea.

Identical twins, peer group pressure

While visiting the famous tourist sites, very often you can see Koreans who are on honeymoon. They dressed like identical twins.

Sometimes you may thing that all Koreans look alike. There is like an unwritten dress code, make up code and hair code. Do some people watching when you obseve the local Korean groups going for a company or community organized hike at Mount Sorak.

Intro Updated Dec 22, 2006
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hopang Apr 1, 2009 at 7:00 AM

Great introduction and valuable information on South Korea. Thanks for sharing. ~ho & pang
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victorwkf Jun 19, 2008 at 1:45 AM

Hi SL, south korea is a nice country which i enjoyed visiting. Most likely i will go again in november, this time will visit danyang & sobaeksan national park :)
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Stephen-KarenConn Nov 7, 2007 at 4:50 AM

The DMZ is fascinating - and so are the tombs. Very informative page.
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SWFC_Fan Oct 3, 2007 at 11:25 AM

I'm glad that your wish came true and you received a St Lucia card! :-) Hopefully I'll visit one of the remaining countries on your list - Turks and Caicos sounds nice, maybe I'll go there! ;-) Nice tips on South Korea!
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DSwede Jun 24, 2007 at 1:50 AM

Well I'm back in Korea now. I guess its about time I start to try to learn how to read and write something in korean...
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i-s-a Feb 28, 2007 at 9:55 PM

really interesting tips! brings back funny memories about the won...i had a mistake of changing a few hundred dollars into their currency and was so surprised to receive few bundles...didn't know what to do or where to hide those LOL
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nickandchris Feb 3, 2007 at 4:03 AM

How weird that honeymooners dress as twins!! Again, somewhere I lack knowledge of.