Lonely Planet Korea: Travel Survival Kit

by Lonely Planet, Robert Storey, Geoff Crowther

Covering both North and South Korea, this guide provides a historical and political background and features accommodation options for all budgets. It includes extensive coverage of national parks in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0864422644
• ISBN13: 9780864422644
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: Lonely Planet
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 7.2"

Customer Reviews

a good starting point - 5th edition

If you are a first time visitor to Korea, this book provides an excellent overview of sights to see, places to stay, and restaurants to eat. It is great for planning your trip to Korea. When you do get to Korea, there are plenty of places to get more detailed information. That is especially true in big cities and tourist attractions. Korea is incredibly resourceful in that area. If you are going to remote area of Korea, then this may not be the book for you; then again there probably aren't any tourist books that are detailed about all of Korea. Transportation information especially local bus routes can change quite frequently. You need to find out detail information after you get to Korea. Korean people are usually very friendly to foreigners.One thing I do find lacking with this tour book is that it lists all tourist attractions in seemingly random order. Some that are not really worth a visit are covered in details yet some considered not to be missed by local koreans are covered in very little detail. This can be frustrating to short term visitors. But again, do go to a tourist center once you arrive in Korea. I also feel the nightlife section should be expanded. A visit to Korea without experiencing the nightlife is only 50% complete.

My old copy got so destroyed, I had to buy another....

After multitudes of trips around South Korea, my first copy of this book was so trashed from being packed and unpacked into my backpack that I had to order a new one. This book will get used, especially if you are spending a long period of time in-country for traveling or for work.I've generally gotten to know my way around in my three years in Korea, but I still take my LP wherever I go-- it has provided some real gems from restaurants to tours to shopping. My only pique with the book is that some of the maps are more general than useful for locating specific sites-- especially back-alley places in locations like Kyungju and Cheju-do. I usually make a point to get a local tourist map [these can usually be gotten cheaply--a few thousand won at most] for comparison.This book is definitely worth the investment of a twenty-dollar bill or so.

must have for backpacking in Korea

traveled to Korea in 1994 with previous edition of LP Korea. Some of the prices were off, but one can only expect this with the economic conditions in Korea (or anywhere else). Information on transportation and assessment of restaurants and hotels was accurate. Remember that the book is geared to back packers and you'll do well.

A Definite "Must Have" for Anyone Traveling to Korea

Lonely Planet Korea was our "Bible" while living in Korea on my husband's one year tour with the U.S. Army. Without the book, I do not think we would have been able to venture out and see the countryside. The book explained so many things that we would have never known had we not had it to reference to. Most people who are in the Army who go to Korea with the military never get out to see much of Korea, but with this book it shows "how to's" and "where to go's". I would recommend this book for anyone traveling with the military or just on vacation. Our Lonely Planet Korea has worn and torn pages after our one year tour there. I recommend this book to anyone going to Korea. Its well worth the money we spent.

Best Travel Guide to the Real Korea

Although it tends toward the low-rent travel experience (my parents were horrified by the restaurant recommendation of a Denny's-style Western place on Cheju-do), especially the young backpacker crowd, the Lonely Planet Korea guidebook is by far the best guide to the Hermit Kingdom.For backpack travellers, there is no beating the Lonely Planet camaraderie. Once, while looking for the recommended hostel in Kyongju, my travel companion and I looked down the alleyway only to see two similarly-lost young men (a Magyar and a Japanese) consulting their similarly-dogeared Lonely Planet guidebook. The way these books throw like-minded budget travellers together is the best part of the Lonely Planet experience.I have lived here for six years on and off since 1990, and whenever I hit the road it's with Lonely Planet in my travel kit.