Straight answers for your trip to Korea

By Seungyeop Yeom, who lives outside Seoul and reads Korean.

Which eSIM to buy. Which transit card. Which neighborhood. Whether you need a visa.

English travel pages copy each other and go stale. I read Korean, so I check every guide against the page the price or rule actually comes from: the carrier's own rate card, the city's fare notice, the immigration bulletin. Each guide lists what I read and the date I last checked it.

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