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Jeju is the volcanic island off Korea's south coast that Koreans go to for honeymoons, school trips and long weekends. The flight from Seoul's Gimpo Airport takes a little over an hour, and planes leave almost every few minutes. Lots of visitors spend two days there and leave feeling they only saw the inside of a rental car. The island is bigger than it looks on a map, about 75 km from east to west, and its best sights are spread around the coast with a 1,947-metre volcano in the middle. So this guide is organised by side of the island . Pick a side for each day, sleep in the area you are exploring if you can, and you will spend more time at the sights than on the road. Opening hours, fees and booking rules were checked in October 2026 . How many days? 2 days : the east side (Seongsan, Udo) and the south (Seogwipo). 3 days : add the west (Hyeopjae beach, tea fields, Camellia Hill). 4 days or more : add a Hallasan hike, which needs a full day and, for the summit trails, a...

The Seoul subway is one of the easiest big-city metro systems in the world to use as a visitor. Signs and announcements are in English, every station has a number, trains come every few minutes on the main lines, and a single card pays for both the subway and the bus. Most of the problems visitors run into are not about getting lost. They are small money and timing mistakes: buying single tickets every ride, forgetting to tap out, missing the last train, or getting on an express train that skips their stop. This guide covers how the system is laid out, what a ride actually costs in 2026, how free transfers work, and the handful of habits that make the subway painless. Fares and payment rules were checked in October 2026 . Short version • Get a T-money card (or WOWPASS) on day one and load it with cash. Base fare: ₩1,550 with a card, ₩1,650 with a single ticket. • Tap in and tap out, on the subway and on the bus. Tapping out is what gives you free transfers. • Search by station...

Most 5-day Seoul itineraries are written as a list of famous places with a day number in front of each. The places are fine. The order often is not: the palace day lands on the day that palace is closed, Bukchon gets scheduled for the evening when it is off-limits to tourists, and day one is packed as if nobody ever arrived at 3 p.m. after a long-haul flight. This plan is built the other way round. We started from the fixed constraints (closing days, booking windows and opening hours on the official Royal Palaces site, checked on October 27, 2026 ) and fitted the sights around them. Each day stays in one or two neighbouring areas, so you spend your time walking around rather than riding the subway across the city. The plan at a glance Day 1 Arrive, settle in, Myeongdong and Namsan at night Day 2 Gyeongbokgung, Bukchon, Insadong, Ikseon-dong, Gwangjang Market Day 3 Changdeokgung Secret Garden, Changgyeonggung, Seongsu, Han River Day 4 Day trip to Suwon Hwaseong Fortress Day...

Staying connected in Korea is easy. The networks are fast almost everywhere, including the subway. The hard part is choosing, because there are four different products with confusingly similar names: a tourist SIM card, a tourist eSIM with a Korean phone number, a data-only eSIM, and a pocket Wi-Fi router. On top of that, your home carrier's roaming may be good enough on its own. To compare them on real numbers, we used KT (Korea Telecom), one of Korea's three mobile carriers, because its tourist shop publishes the full price list and conditions in English. All prices below were read from KT's official tourist site (roaming.kt.com) and its July 2026 service manual on October 27, 2026 . SK Telecom and LG U+ sell similar tourist products through their own counters and resellers, and their prices are broadly in the same range, but check their own pages. Short answer • Just need maps, messages and social media → a data-only eSIM , bought online before you fly. • Need a K...

You land at Incheon, clear immigration, collect your bag, and walk out into the arrivals hall. Seoul is about 50–60 km away, and you have four realistic ways to get there: the AREX Express train, the cheaper all-stop AREX train, an airport limousine bus, or a taxi. Every travel site has a comparison table, but most of them are a year or two old, and the prices in them no longer match what you will pay. So we took the numbers straight from the operators. On October 27, 2026 we read the fare pages of the Airport Railroad (AREX), the Airport Limousine bus company and the Incheon Airport taxi guide, and checked their latest notices. There are a few things in those notices you will not find in older guides, including more Express trains from October 23 and bus detours on November 1. Which one should I take? • Staying near Seoul Station , or want a guaranteed seat → AREX Express , ₩13,000, 43 min from Terminal 1. • Staying near Hongdae, Gongdeok or anywhere on the subway, travelling ...

Most "things to do in Seoul" lists are written as if the city were one big theme park: palace, tower, market, shopping street, repeat. The places are right, but the lists leave out the details that decide whether your day works: which palace is closed on which day, which lanes now have a tourist curfew, and which famous spots are better at 9 a.m. than at 3 p.m. This list is organised the way Seoul actually works on the ground: by neighbourhood , so you can do one area per half day without crossing the city five times. Opening days, hours and fees for the palaces were checked on the official Royal Palaces and Tombs Center site on October 27, 2026 , and the Bukchon rules on the Seoul Metropolitan Government's page. Four things to know before you plan 1. Gyeongbokgung is closed on Tuesdays. Changdeokgung, Deoksugung and Changgyeonggung are closed on Mondays . Plan your palace day around that. 2. Foreign visitors aged 18 and under or 65 and over enter the palaces free...