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Here are 2 sample companies organizing these trips as a group tour: Koridoor Panmunjom There are several different places to see, such as the DMZ with its fences, some tunnels and the border crossings of course. Because of the many different combination of locations that you can see in a half-day or full-day course, the prices also vary a lot, between ...

Historically Seoul has had a number of issues with drinking water. Most recently the issue wasn't the water itself, but the pipes that delivered it, which many people claimed introduced contaminates. I can still remember being told by someone I was working with there about 10 years ago that the water was safe to drink in my hotel, but not in their office ...

This is what it says in the official Seoul government tourist site: The subway operation hours are from 5:30 to approximately 24:00. Apparently, the subway system is run by three different companies but I don't think this has any influence on the opening hours but just on the design of certain stations.

There are huge amount of new phone shops almost everywhere, but I hardly remember where used phone stores are. Probably the reason will be simple-Used phone business is no money. Buying a new phone in Korea also means signing an contract (usually for 2-years) with mobile service provider. It makes money for manufacturers, mobile service providers, and ...

You can take the Seoul City Night Tour. This is a non expensive city tour that departs at 8pm all days except mondays and city holidays. The problem is that you won't see all main city sightseeing, but it will give you an idea of the city. If you are looking for something more interesting (and expensive) a friend was very happy with the night tour of I love ...

I've never come across a country where ATM fees varied depending on the location of the ATM. Whilst it's certainly possible that there exist some "private" ATMs in various airports that charge more, but the normal bank-operated ATMs will charge exactly the same fees and give exactly the same exchange rate through-out the country. Specific to Seouls Incheon ...

Found an airline called Eastar Jet which offers flights from Incheon, which is Souls primary airport. There are normal and discounted fares, a normal one is 260,000KRW which is a bit over $230 and a discounted fare is 99,500KRW which comes to about $87. These fares are for flights to Narita airport in Tokyo for April 2012. I got all the way through to the ...

It is quite hard to find ATMs that accept foreign cards, including Visa Electron and Cirrus cards in Korea outside areas with more foreign expats and tourists. The ATMs which accept non-Korean cards will have a small logo or sign saying "Global ATM". Thread about "Global ATMs" on official Seoul tourism website "Visit Seoul". One of these areas with more ...

According to this Visa site, Visa Electron is accepted in South Korea in many ATMs (make sure to choose the bank from the drop down menu). Also, According to this official site of Korean tourism Cirrus ATM cards are the most widely accepted in Korea.

Well I'm pretty sure I found it by pure coincidence about a week ago on my way bag from a many-hours-long random walk around Seoul. From Hongdae it turns out you can walk pretty much directly East following the sun if it's morning or away from the sun if it's afternoon. If you do that following the bigger roads you'll tend slightly North but you'll end up ...

1) Food prices as of 2012, near colleage in Seoul: Cafeteria in a college : 2,000 ~ 4,000 KRW (run by city/government has lower price) Local food resturant for student near a college : 4,000 ~ 6,000 KRW Franchise restaurant : 5,000 ~ 10,000 KRW (near college in rural area will be lower about 500 ~ 1,000 KRW) 2) Housing prices : very differentiated by ...