Why go? Lovely old streets to wander around (hanok village), interesting Kings’ burial mounds in the park, lot of blossom trees in spring, pleasant shopping area and a good indoor market. It’s also on the high speed line between Seoul and Busan (the KTX, high speed, train station, Singyeongju, is about 10km out of town). […]
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This is the post I have most been dreading writing about South Korea because there is so much to say about Seoul and we saw and did an awful lot. The reason I decided to write about things we experienced and did in South Korea is because I felt there wasn’t much useful and accurate
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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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