Gyeongju, a City Guide
A capital that never moved for a thousand years.
The Korean edition comes in the same file, at no extra cost.
- Format
- PDF, A4, 35 pages
- Languages
- English or Japanese + Korean edition
- Series
- MUST GO
- Chapters
- 5 chapters
- Edition
- 2026.08
- Delivery
- Instant download after payment
- Refunds
- Before first download only
Real pages, straight out of the PDF.
The cover and 2 real pages, straight out of the PDF at full sharpness. The rest stays inside the book.
A city explained, not listed.
Silla ruled from here from 57 BCE to 935 CE and never once moved the capital. What is left of that above ground, what the city eats now, and how to get around it without a car.
Every figure was read at an official source. Dates, addresses and travel details carry a mark that points to a numbered entry at the back of the book, with the page we read it on. Where we could not confirm a figure, the book leaves it out rather than guessing.
Every photograph is openly licensed. No image in this book is one we cannot legally print, and the credits are printed with it — including the fact that we cropped to fit the page.
The Korean edition is in the same file. Same book, in Korean, after the edition you bought. When a name matters more than the explanation, you can show the page instead of reading it out.
What is inside
5 chapters, 35 pages, ending with how to get there and how to move around once you have arrived.
All 5 chapters unlock with the book.
The pages below are from further inside the same file.
These pages are blurred in the image itself, not by your browser. The full 35-page PDF unlocks on purchase.
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No. This book explains the city — how it came to look the way it does, what is in which part of it, and what people eat there. It does not tell you which day to do what. If you want the days built around your own dates, that is the itinerary service.
Most of it will not — a wall, a harbour and a thousand years of history do not move. A handful of entries carry opening hours, and those are the ones to check before you set out; the book prints the official page it was read from so you can check it yourself.
Because place names and dishes are worth showing rather than pronouncing. The Korean edition is the same book, so the page you need is in the same place — hand over the phone and point.