- Paperback: 460 pages
- Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications; 5th Revised edition edition (31 Mar 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0864426976
- ISBN-13: 978-0864426970
- Product Dimensions: 18.3 x 12.7 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,510,935 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From teeming Seoul in its mountain cradle to remote offshore islands and secluded monasteries, this comprehensive guide will help people discover this land of dramatic beauty.
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Korean folklore fixes the date of the na 's birth to a semi-deity named Tan'gun at around 2333 BC. Read the first page
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Inaccurate, basic, sloppy. A waste of money and space.,
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This review is from: Korea (Lonely Planet Country Guide) (Paperback)
Korea is a wonderful country to visit but if you're looking for an accurate guidebook to help you get the most out of your trip, then look elsewhere. Like most Lonely Planets, the Korean addition is shot through with inaccuracies, inappropriate opinions and sheer lack of quality. The information is organised haphazardly, and the appallingly bad romanization/Anglicisation of the Korean placenames only serves to add to the confusion. For intance, the map of the Seoul subway system does not use the romanized station names that the Koreans use, and so is completely baffling, especially since several stations have near identical names and, without knowing the linguistic complexities and pronounciation guidelines of Korean, renders the map next to useless. The author's clearly believes in his own romanizing system, but instead of such arrogance, humility would have been more appropriate in adopting the system used by the language's own speakers. Nevertheless, there are some basic descriptions of places to visit and points of interest at most locations, though his choice of these is very subjective and you'd be well advised to get local tourist information and make your own decisions, using the Lonely Planet as a supplementary guide. This also serves the purpose of confirming the details in the Lonely Planet, which are as often wrong as they are right. This borders on the criminal when one is dependent on such a book, as users of the Rough Guide series may well have become accustomed. Practically the only thing the Lonely Planet has going for it is frequent sketches, which help identify places and attractions, something the Rough Guide can be a bit patchy on, relying more heavily on its maps, which can be confusing, despite their excellence. Overall, the Lonely Planet guide to Korea will prove a very frustrating and fairweather companion on your journey and is not worth the space it will take up in your luggage. A far better alternative, I am told, is the Moon Guide to Korea, which is not widely available in bookstores. The Rough Guide ought to get itself in gear and produce its own alternative. As a supplementary point, under no circumstances purchase the Seoul guide by Lonely Planet; it is simply the introduction and ending of the Korea guide, with the Seoul pages stuffed in between. It has approximately 5% more information than the Korea guide, but this in no way justifies the price. Even if you are only visiting Seoul, buy the Korea guide, just in case you ever decide to go back and sample more of this beautiful, welcoming country.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Buy something else,
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This review is from: Korea (Lonely Planet Country Guide) (Paperback)
I bought this book before going to Korea earlier in the year and found it useless. My main sticking point was the section on getting there and away. As a new airport has opened since the book was published it renderes the whole section useless, as are the prices of ferries to Japan (I checked on arrival and they were far more expensive). Cultural history wasn't too bad or things to see and do, but you would be better making use of the tourist information desk when you arrive at Incheon Airport (Not Gimpo/Kimpo as the book may have you believe) or in Seoul. The tourist office produces some great maps and guides for free, with places written in the Korean text as well as English, so you can point at the word to a passer-by if you can't pronounce it and they'll know what you're looking for, even if they are not sure where it is. The most acurate thing about this book is the reference to old people en masse sitting in parks across the capital, which is relatively useless unless you actually wanted a Korean pensioner.
2 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Nice because it cuts both ways!,
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This review is from: Korea (Lonely Planet Travel Guides) (Paperback)
This is a very complete guide, as they come from LP. Many famous and not so famous places are described in detail and in 99% of the cases accurately,too. Nice if you want to know where other foreigners hang out in Korea. Next thing is to decide wether you want to meet them or avoid them...
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