About

This site answers the practical questions about Korea. Getting online, getting around, paying for things, dealing with the paperwork nobody warns you about.

Why bother making another one

There are plenty of English guides to Korea. The problem is that they rot. A fare goes up, a rule changes, an app stops taking foreign cards, and the article that told you otherwise sits there for three more years collecting traffic. Nothing on the page tells you it has gone bad.

So every page here has a verification date on it. Not the publication date. Not a "2026" dropped into the title. The day someone opened the source and read it.

When a number has not been checked, the page says that too. That is the part I care about most, and it is the easiest promise to break quietly.

Where the numbers come from

Most things that change in Korea are announced in Korean. The English version follows late, or never. This site reads the Korean pages directly, which is less impressive than it sounds and mostly just means someone is doing it. Those sources are linked at the bottom of every article, and the Korean ones are tagged KO so you can see exactly where a figure came from.

Written from Incheon, which is the city with the airport in it, so a fair amount of this can be checked by going and looking.

How it pays for itself

Some pages carry affiliate links, and those pages say so at the top. They cost you nothing. They also do not get to pick the recommendation. Where the cheapest option pays nothing and the expensive one pays well, the page still says which one is cheaper.

Corrections

If something here is wrong, please say so. A site that stakes everything on being current is only as good as the people who tell it when it slips. Contact.