Korea Questions

[Garet]

Sorry to bother with this question if this has been asked before but I ran a search and couldn't find the answers exactly I was looking for.

 

I am hopefully going to South Korea for a year to teach english, its all in planning at the moment and nothing concrete but hopefully leaving in November time, I was wondering if you had any experience with the travel systems between the big city or you used private coaches, was just wondering if i'm based in a city that isn't Seoul it would be interesting to know how accessible Lotte World and Everland is (the two parks i really want to visit). Also when during the year would you guys personally recommend visiting?

 

I'm not too fussed as teaching is my main goal and the parks would be a really amazing extra but if i could find out answers to this, I might keep my eyes open on where the places i'm offered are.

 

Many thanks for your help,

 

Rob

[Louise]

Hey Rob,

 

For the Korea tour in 2007 we used a private coach company complete with amazing tour guide! I'm not 100% but I believe Robb and Elissa used the same guide and coach company again last year when they went back.

 

Obviously I'm not going to speak for them, they know *way* more about it than I do, but seeing as we easily navigated Japan almost exclusively via public transport, I would assume the choice of employing a tour company in South Korea was due to this kind of transport not being as easily available and usable there as in some other Asian countries... Hope that helps a little bit so you at least don't get your hopes up too much for easy bus/train journeys!!

[Jew]

We took the Subway in Seoul to visit a few parks on the return visit in 2008, and from the looks of the map of the system...it looked like you could get pretty much anywhere using the subway.

 

Here's a link I found that looks like it would help you out:

 

http://www.asia-pacific-connections.com/transportation.html

[SharkTums]

I think you can get to most of the Seoul area parks on public transport. As Joey said, we did a few last year.

 

Getting out of the city though, I didn't see much public transport options near or at the parks.

[Loefet]

There are buses from Seoul out to Everland.

They are however expanding the subway network, building new railway-lines etc. so in the public transport system will be a lot better in the future.

 

You could try and contact Gavin who is a member here on TPR, but who spends most of his time over at CoasterForce, who have done exactly what you are going to do and have visited many of the parks in South Korea and the rest of southeast Asia.

[Louise]

I knew if I bumped this with crap then people with real answers would come out of the woodwork.

 

I'm actually keen to know this stuff myself. If I end up going back to Japan at some point I'd love to head back to South Korea for a couple of days again, hit T-Express and go back to revisit a few things. There just isn't anywhere close to the same kind of volume of information online about Korea as there is Japan.

[Garet]

Cheers guys for your replies, they really hepled me out, cheers lou for getting me answers out of the umm "woodwork"

 

To be fair my main dedication will to be to the job so I wouldn't be getting many park visits anyway, the main two i want to visit where Lotte World and Everland since I shall be fingers crossed based in a city attached to Seoul by the subway line, that and I have a whole year to get round to it (even if i only get weekends off)

 

3 years gaining a degree was definitely worth the almost free trip to everland

 

Rob