The things no one tells you cost the most.
Google Maps will route your bus, but it will not tell you that skipping the exit tap breaks your transfer and charges you again. Blogs still show fares from years ago. This book covers only the rules of Korea that stay true — and what each one costs you when you learn it late.
231 pages, three languages. English or Japanese, plus a Korean edition for pointing.
Every number sourced. Official sources listed at the back; unverifiable figures left out.
Three sample pages below. Plus the full chapter list — nothing about the contents is hidden.
Who this is for
First trip to Korea
You will make the bus mistake, the deposit mistake and the bill-waiting mistake in week one. They are all in chapters 6, 7 and 9.
Traveling with family
One adult reads it once, and six people stop losing money on transfers. The checklist pages are built to be photographed.
Business visitors
Names, cards, pouring, seating — chapters 3 and 4 are the fifteen minutes that make the dinner go well.
Anyone with a food allergy
Chapter 11 is built around showing, not pronouncing — what hides in the broth, what Korean law does and doesn’t name, and numbered Korean phrases your server can read directly.
What is inside
20 chapters, 77 numbered phrase cards, and a 179-entry index that points at the same page numbers in all three editions. Nothing here goes out of date next season — no restaurant lists, no opening hours, no prices that rot.
See 4 pages, exactly as printed
The cover and 3 real pages from the opening chapters, including the Hangul chart — straight out of the PDF, at full sharpness. The rest stays inside the book.
All 20 chapters unlock with the book
Money and tipping · getting around · what the dish in front of you actually is · allergies · drinking · shopping · emergencies — plus 77 numbered phrase cards and every source.
These pages are blurred in the image itself, not by your browser. The full 231-page PDF unlocks on purchase.
Get the book
$29.90
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- Format
- PDF, A4, 231 pages
- Languages
- EN or JA + KO edition
- Edition
- 2026.08
- Delivery
- Instant download after payment
- Re-download
- Yes, with your order reference
- Printing
- Allowed for personal use
- Refunds
- Before first download only
FAQ
Three pages above are shown exactly as printed, and the full chapter list hides nothing about what is covered. The blurred pages are blurred in the image file itself — what you see is what stays public.
Two PDFs: the edition you choose (English or Japanese) plus the Korean edition. The Korean edition mirrors the same page layout and phrase numbers, so you can show a page or a numbered phrase to any Korean speaker.
Yes — any time before your first download. Once the file has been downloaded, the product has been delivered and refunds are no longer available. This is stated again at checkout.
The book deliberately avoids the things that rot — restaurant lists, exact fares, opening hours. Where a number appears, the official source and the check date are printed at the back. The edition date is on the cover.