To put it frankly, we here at WoWasis, make our money on people who book tours and hotels on our site (please continue to do it, as we’re always really objective about what we discuss and review, and the revenue keeps us traveling and posting). And that’s why today’s post is so wild: we’re raving […]
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WoWasis transportation review: Korea’s ultra-fast KTX bullet train
Korea’s KTX high speed train may get you to your destination, door to door, faster than an airplane
Read the rest of this entry »Walk the ancient stone rampart walls at Suwon, South Korea’s walled city, just outside of Seoul
Visit the ancient Korean walled city of Suwon, just a half-hour by train outside of Seoul
Read the rest of this entry »WoWasis product review: a wristwatch compass that’s efficient and inexpensive
Carry this great small compass with you whenever you’re in an unfamliar place
Read the rest of this entry »Korea’s Jeju Love Land: the Sexiest museum in Asia?
South Korea’s wild museum of sex is full of art, humor, and is politically incorrect to the extreme
Read the rest of this entry »Help, My SIM phone doesn’t work in Korea! How do I make calls?
Here at WoWasis, we carry a SIM phone with us to virtually all Asian countries, buy a new SIM card when we arrive, and start calling in-country and back home immediately. But that doesn’t work in Korea. Korean mobile phones work on the CDMA system, a different communications technology, so your SIM phone may be […]
Read the rest of this entry »Visiting for a few hours on beautiful U-Do Island, Korea
U-Do island is only 15 minutes by ferry from South Korea’s Jeju island, and worth a visit
Read the rest of this entry »Korean Comfort Woman confronts Japan at her Korean embassy in Seoul, 24 x 7, 365 days a year
the placement of a sculpture of a Korean comfort woman outside Japan’s embassy in Seoul plays havoc with Japanese sensibilities
Read the rest of this entry »Visit a hanok, the traditional Korean house in Seoul’s Bukchon neighborhood
traditional Korean houses are now being preserved as cultural treasures, and you can stay in them, too
Read the rest of this entry »Korea’s traditional Haenyeo female freedivers pass into history: see them while you can
Traditional Korean haenyeo female divers are quickly becoming a thing of the past; see them now, while you can.
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