I commute into Seoul every day, and I’ve spent years figuring out what actually works: KTX bookings, subway hacks, airport shortcuts. These are the Korea travel guides I wish someone had handed me — tested in person, with the annoying parts included.
Already comfortable reading the platform signage and riding through rush hour? Good, that’s covered in our guide to Seoul subway rush hour and what to expect. But if you’re standing in front of a ticket machine right now and just need to know what to press, you’re in exactly the right place. If you want …
This is Part 2 of our K-Travel series. If you missed Part 1 — Riding the KTX: Korea’s Bullet Train Experience, that’s a good place to start. But if you’re already navigating Seoul itself, you’re in exactly the right place. This Seoul Subway Guide starts on a rush-hour platform at Euljiro 3(sam)-ga, where around 300 …
There are exactly two things that can make a grown man leave his warm bed at 6am without complaint: a flight to catch, and a parent in a hospital bed 300 kilometers away. My father had just come out of knee replacement surgery at a hospital in Daegu. We were in Ilsan, just northwest of …