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South Korea, at the southern tip of the Korean peninsula, is a country unlike any other. It is a country of diversity, amazing people, beautiful landscapes, and full of interesting places.
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| Learn more about South Korea provinces and capitals through this educational video. |
How did the war split the two states South Korea and North Korea, for several decades? Learn the Korea history through this animated history of Korea in a nutshell. |
These videos introduce places and food you should explore when in Seoul, South Korea.
This section helps prepare an individual before visiting South Korea, such as learning the cultural etiquette, basic conversational phrases, and even some useful local contact numbers.
Cultural Dos and Don’ts
South Korea has its own customs, traditions, and rules for manners. Observe the following etiquette for a great experience:
Basic Conversational Language
Some phrases in Hangul that are handy to know when visiting South Korea.
Phone Apps
Dialing Code
+82
Useful Numbers
This section links to the various local news media in South Korea.
RSS News Feed
This section informs the common scams and crimes to look out for when visiting South Korea.
Scams
Crime & Security
This section lists some recommended readings about South Korea.
South Korea - Insight Guides by
One of the world's most exciting and cutting-edge countries, South Korea is a fascinating East Asian powerhouse, where ancient temples rub up alongside dazzling technology. Be inspired to visit by the new edition of Insight Guide South Korea, a comprehensive full-colour guide to all that's weird and wonderful about the country. Inside Insight Guide South Korea: A new edition by expert authors. Stunning photography that brings this fascinating country and its people to life. Highlights of the country's top attractions, including captivating former capital Gyeongju, the Unesco World Heritage Site of Haein-sa Temple and the still-relevant DMZ in our Best of South Korea. Descriptive region-by-region accounts cover the whole country, from pulsating Seoul to the remote islands of the Jeolla Provinces. Detailed, high-quality maps throughout will help you get around and travel tips give you all the essential information for planning a memorable trip. About Insight Guides: Insight Guides has over 40 years' experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce around 400 full-colour print guide books and maps as well as picture-packed eBooks to meet different travellers' needs. Insight Guides' unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus on history and culture together create a unique visual reference and planning tool to inspire your next adventure. 'Insight Guides has spawned many imitators but is still the best of its type.' - Wanderlust Magazine
South Korea Society and Culture Complete Report by
Need to know it all? Our all-inclusive culture report for South Korea will get up to speed on all aspects of culture in South Korea, including lifecycle, religion, women, superstitions & folklore, sports, holidays & festivals, and etiquette.
Globalization and Popular Music in South Korea by
This book offers an in-depth study of the globalization of contemporary South Korean idol pop music, or K-Pop, visiting K-Pop and its multiple intersections with political, economic, and cultural formations and transformations. It provides detailed insights into the transformative process in and around the field of Korean pop music since the 1990s, which paved the way for the recent international rise of K-Pop and the Korean Wave. Fuhr examines the conditions and effects of transnational flows, asymmetrical power relations, and the role of the imaginary "other" in K-Pop production and consumption, relating them to the specific aesthetic dimensions and material conditions of K-Pop stars, songs, and videos. Further, the book reveals how K-Pop is deployed for strategies of national identity construction in connection with Korean cultural politics, with transnational music production circuits, and with the transnational mobility of immigrant pop idols. The volume argues that K-Pop is a highly productive cultural arena in which South Korea¿s globalizing and nationalizing forces and imaginations coincide, intermingle, and counteract with each other and in which the tension between both of these poles is played out musically, visually, and discursively. This book examines a vibrant example of contemporary popular music from the non-Anglophone world and provides deeper insight into the structure of popular music and the dynamics of cultural globalization through a combined set of ethnographic, musicological, and cultural analysis. Widening the regional scope of Western-dominated popular music studies and enhancing new areas of ethnomusicology, anthropology, and cultural studies, this book will also be of interest to those studying East Asian popular culture, music globalization, and popular music.
This section provides useful links to the South Korea social media.
Social Media
Imagine your Korea
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