Why go? To see the Oriental Medicine Market. Is it worth going out of your way to visit? No. We went out of our way to visit Daegu because I really wanted to visit the Oriental Medicine Market that my guide book had a special box about. It was staggeringly disappointing. Daegu Daegu is a […]
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Jeonju was the place I most wanted to visit in South Korea and I had marked loads of things I wanted to see and do in my guide book. On trying to book the accommodation I desperately wanted to stay at, Seunggwangje, I discovered someone’s blog about Jeonju and it roused some suspicions that, yet
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I always expected to like Busan more than Seoul, and in many ways I did. It has a very different feel to Seoul and is much prettier than Seoul. Why go? It ticks my two main city preference boxes: sea and mountains. The fish market (dried fish, shell fish, fresh fish and more). It has
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(LENGTHY) POSTCARD POEM FROM SOUTH KOREA South Korea? What an interesting thought.We’d never been, so tickets were bought.Within two weeks, aboard Asiana;Bound for Seoul with my mate Diana. PHOTO Bukchon Hanok guesthouse, Seoul. Yo (futon) on ondol (heated floor) Our first four nights in Seoul we stayed,On yo on ondol, there we laid.The floor was
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(NB This information is from a trip in April 2013) Is it cheap to shop in South Korea? It was not as cheap as I expected. Accommodation is cheap, you can eat cheaply and some everyday things seem cheap (eg I got some 1,000 won pads of nice writing paper). Souvenirs are a bit more
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Overall thoughts – Accommodation – Travelling around/orientation – Things to do – Lunch and dinner – Cafe Overall thoughts Brief: crazy traffic, lots of pipping, dirty, noisy, feels poor, not touristy at all, some nice large parks/green space, hectic train station, lots of buses, no obvious centre of city beyond Mega mall, cheaper than Almaty
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