When’s the next one?

Why this spelling

This romanisation is not the spelling copied letter by letter. It is built from the National Institute of Korean Language’s Revised Romanization, which writes what the word sounds like once the sounds next to each other have changed it.

When you would say it

Ask it at the window and hold out your phone so they can type the time in. Numbers spoken fast are the part that gets lost.

Getting around: the tickets go first

Holiday train seats don’t go on sale with everything else. They open on their own date, announced ahead of time by the national rail operator, and a lot of them are gone within the day. That date moves every year, so the habit worth having isn’t memorizing it. **It’s looking it up the moment you know your travel dates.**

From the same chapter

Holidays, and What Closes

Card number 66 of the book

The guidebook prints these as numbered cards, so you can hold up a number instead of trying to pronounce it. The Korean edition comes with it and has the same numbers in the same places.

See the guidebook