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| This section is for photographs and tourist travel. On my website you can also see a separate section for teaching English in Korea under English in Korea. I write about Korea and North Korea on my blogette as well. If you travel to South Korea with some CNN fantasy of an exotic Asian multicultural smorgasbord you’ll be disappointed. The buildings, food, language, and culture will be Korean. Period. Korea isn’t going to compete with Thailand as a tourism hotspot, but for a short stay there are fun things to do. Seoul has some good shopping and sights; Busan has nice beaches; the mountains are beautiful; Jeju has a slightly Hawaiian quality. Perhaps my favorite thing about Korea is the way shopping districts light up at night with neon. If I were to come up with a slightly risqué slogan for Korean tourism, it would be "It’s better with the lights on!" If You Go The lack of English can be a problem, but people try to be helpful and it’s not hard to get around. Seoul to Busan is a three-hour train ride on the KTX bullet train and public transportation is easy to use. Seoul is expensive but prices drop outside the city. The food can be brutally hot, but one mercy is that there really is only one main spice used in Korea: red pepper sauce. If your dinner is orange, it will be hot. If it isn’t orange, it’s probably fine. |
