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Discover Seoul
Find out how eating with chopsticks made of metal can prevent assassination
Learn the secret to navigating Seoul streets - be the only traveler in town who isn't lost!
Check the dress code for a daytrip to one of the weirdest places on earth, the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea
Shop 24 hours a day at the raucous Namdaemun Market
In This Guide:
Weeks of rigorous on-the-ground research by two expert authors: one an experienced travel writer, the other based right here in Seoul
Discover Seoul's hidden, winding back-street alleyways - explore the city that even the local expats never find
How to indulge your tastebuds at any time of the day or night - where to sample the best fiery traditional barbequed beef strips or Italian-Korean fusion foods
Find out how eating with chopsticks made of metal can prevent assassination
Learn the secret to navigating Seoul streets - be the only traveler in town who isn't lost!
Check the dress code for a daytrip to one of the weirdest places on earth, the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea
Shop 24 hours a day at the raucous Namdaemun Market
In This Guide:
Weeks of rigorous on-the-ground research by two expert authors: one an experienced travel writer, the other based right here in Seoul
Discover Seoul's hidden, winding back-street alleyways - explore the city that even the local expats never find
How to indulge your tastebuds at any time of the day or night - where to sample the best fiery traditional barbequed beef strips or Italian-Korean fusion foods
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30 of 33 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This guide-book is excellent if what you're looking for is facts, phone numbers, and names of places to help you find your way around the capital city. The book has helpfully included lots of Hangul/romanisation of names which is always useful when you're not familiar with the Korean alphabet/new in Korea/easily lost!(or all three). There are plenty of listings for accommodation, eating out and getting around but the book rather lacks in giving the reader a feeling for the culture and atmosphere of the city. The sections on each district of Seoul are rather dry. The book concentrates on the names of shops/restaurants in each area and what you can expect to buy or eat there; information about other things to do and the type of people who populate the area (be they teens, businessmen or prostitutes) is scant - expect your copy to be highly annotated after your trip! The Lonely Planet Korea book has almost identical information on Seoul plus the rest of Korea too.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Used the book for a week in Seoul and found it to provide good and accurate information. The book also provides a large amount of practical information and other nice to know for a first time visitor.
I found the description of the different city regions useful and up to date.
The map provided with the book is no good, but no problem since better maps are easily found locally.
I found the description of the different city regions useful and up to date.
The map provided with the book is no good, but no problem since better maps are easily found locally.
Format:Paperback
I spent four days in Seoul with this guidebook, and I was mostly disappointed with it.
On the positive side, there are some fairly good restaurant recommendations - Gorilla in the Kitchen turned out to be as good as described, and a bibimbat joint in Itaewon was good, although the directions to it weren't terrifically helpful.
On the negative side, it's very hard to use. The book is grouped by theme rather than geography, so if you're trying to find out what to see, where to shop, where to eat and what bars to visit in one area, you have to keep flicking back and forwards through the book. Consequentially, the maps aren't right next to the descriptions of the things they see, so the legend refers to a set of places that then require further to'ing and fro'ing to figure out if they're interesting or not. Strangely, Time Out guides use pretty much the same approach, but don't produce the perception of having to flick back and forth all the time.
Ah, and that brings us to the maps. They're terrible. Hard to read, with no Korean script on them (only in the key), with most obvious landmarks omitted and locations of the points they do mark not clearly on one street or another. The map of the subway system is on a folding pull-out map, which would be a nice idea (since you wouldn't have to carry the whole book around, just a map) were it not for the pull-out map having hardly any features on it whatsoever, and displaying just the centre of Seoul on such a large scale that it's useless for navigation.
The quality of the writing is so-so. Perhaps to compensate for this, Lonely Planet keep most of the guide printed in black and white and grey on dull looking paper.
On the positive side, there are some fairly good restaurant recommendations - Gorilla in the Kitchen turned out to be as good as described, and a bibimbat joint in Itaewon was good, although the directions to it weren't terrifically helpful.
On the negative side, it's very hard to use. The book is grouped by theme rather than geography, so if you're trying to find out what to see, where to shop, where to eat and what bars to visit in one area, you have to keep flicking back and forwards through the book. Consequentially, the maps aren't right next to the descriptions of the things they see, so the legend refers to a set of places that then require further to'ing and fro'ing to figure out if they're interesting or not. Strangely, Time Out guides use pretty much the same approach, but don't produce the perception of having to flick back and forth all the time.
Ah, and that brings us to the maps. They're terrible. Hard to read, with no Korean script on them (only in the key), with most obvious landmarks omitted and locations of the points they do mark not clearly on one street or another. The map of the subway system is on a folding pull-out map, which would be a nice idea (since you wouldn't have to carry the whole book around, just a map) were it not for the pull-out map having hardly any features on it whatsoever, and displaying just the centre of Seoul on such a large scale that it's useless for navigation.
The quality of the writing is so-so. Perhaps to compensate for this, Lonely Planet keep most of the guide printed in black and white and grey on dull looking paper.
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Try the Rough Guide instead!
I bought guide this to supplement the Rough Guide to Korea for my year long trip after I decided I needed a city guide that went into more detail. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Louise Taylor
Not impressed
I found it challenging to use the book to find places recommended in the book. The maps were not extensive enough to guide me to the destination, it would help a great deal if all... Read more
Published on 1 Feb 2010 by Y. Wong
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