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Guidebooks
Books about the rules of Korea that stay true next year, and itineraries our MDs actually walked. Written by locals, every claim sourced, sold as PDF with instant download.
Your First Week in Korea
The six things that go wrong in week one. Weather and what to pack, reading a Korean map app, finding the right bus and tapping off, sorting your rubbish, and what to say when you need help. Standard rate
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Korea, The Basics
The rules that still hold next year. Etiquette, transport, money, emergencies and the country region by region, with a Korean point-and-show edition in the same file. $29.9025% offStandard rate2 titles so far. New guidebooks are added only when they are finished — nothing is listed before it exists.
One city at a time
The guidebooks above cover the country. These cover one city each — how it came to look the way it does, what is in which part of it, and what people eat there. Cities you should not skip are priced apart from the ones Koreans know and visitors walk past.
Gyeongju, a City Guide
A capital that never moved for a thousand years. 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. $14.9931% offStandard rate
Busan, a City Guide
The port city, read from the water out. Korea’s second city in three parts — the old center where it began, the eastern beaches from Haeundae to Oryukdo, and the western side: Yeongdo, Gamcheon, Songdo. What to eat, what the city is like out of season, and the tour routes that join the three. $14.9934% offStandard rate
Suwon, a City Guide
A walled city a king built on purpose. A king moved a whole town and walled it, and the wall is still there with apartments beside it. The four gates and what stands on them, the palace and the shrine inside, the alleys and the lake, and the dish the city is known for. $9.9933% offStandard rate
Yeosu, a City Guide
Four hundred years of navy, and a night sea. The navy kept its home port here for four hundred years; the city is known now for the sea after dark. The islands and the coastal path, what to eat by the water, and how to reach a city at the end of the line. $9.9935% offStandard rate
Incheon, a City Guide
The gate people tore open. Almost everyone who flies into Korea lands here and leaves without looking. The tidal range reaches 10 meters, which made this a bad sea for ships — so people cut a dock, hung a lock gate on it, and finally walled off the tidal flats and put an airport on top. Three gates, one city: the gun emplacements of Ganghwa, the port forced open in 1883, and the runway you arrived on. $9.9937% offStandard rate
Jeonju, a City Guide
The place where Joseon began. Joseon named this city its own home ground, and the word is still hanging on the south gate and on the old guest house. Four national treasures inside a short walk, what to eat, and why the bibimbap here has a story nobody can finish. $9.9937% offStandard rate
Yongin, a City Guide
Known for the theme park. There is more. The city most people only pass through on the way south, and what is in it besides the theme park — where half the name came from, the five-day market and its sundae, and what there is to see. Including an honest chapter on the dessert it does not have. $9.9937% offStandard rateItineraries by our MDs
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