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| Korea (Country Guide) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Unattributed Author, Rob Whyte
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Category: Book
List Price: $25.99
Buy Used: $8.75
You Save: $17.24 (66%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 68454
Media: Paperback
Edition: 7
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 440
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 0.8
ISBN: 1741045584
Dewey Decimal Number: 915
EAN: 9781741045581
ASIN: 1741045584
Publication Date: April 1, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
 Good For Getting Around October 28, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a decent guide book, but not a great one. Where is the old LP tongue-in-cheek humor that helped make it the guidebook it... was? And how about a cultural tidbit or anecdotal morsel that hasn't been airbrushed, hermetically sealed, and filed under PC. Oh, well. I suppose those days are over.
But seriously now folks, this Lonely Planet Korea will enable you to steer your way through the country's primary cities and chief tourist attractions, and, as usual, the recommended places to stay are well chosen and exactly as described. I used this book on a recent trip to Seoul and Incheon and found it to be entirely adequate and even exceptional in places. Some people I ran into were using (I believe it's called) the Moon Handbook, which looked to be much more comprehensive, especially in terms of non-travel related information. Indeed, it had more than 800 pages as I remember. It all depends on what you want: Korea Lite or Korea Loaded. Either way, enjoy your travels in what must be the dried squid capital of the world.
Troy Parfitt, author
 Good paper weight October 21, 2007
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is my first lonley planet guide. I know they are typically considered good. I see looking through reviews of travel books that many people think of themselves as lonely planet kinds of people. I apparently am just not one of them. This is easily the worst travel guide I've ever owned. It had the advantage of being the only book on South Korea in either book store in town.
My big complaint is this - there is such a thing as travel book technology which is a subset of reference book technology. Lonely planet apparently thinks it is too cool to make use of simple easy use features that have been learned over hundreds of years of book use. This is a form of hostility. Now, I know some people like it when you treat them bad. Maybe that is what it means to be a lonely planet kind of person. I'm not such a person.
A well designed travel book takes only five minutes to understand and start being useful. Having to read thirty deadly dull pages just to get a little bit of useful information is unforgivable.
I don't trust this book. It names Bobby Bonds as the US home run record holder. I don't expect an expert on Korea to know who holds the home run record, but I do expect them to be a good enough researcher to get it right if they decide to use that information. It isn't like this is a national secret.
Unlike a previous reviewer, I can't stand it's decision to simply cut out major cities it doesn't find interesting. Would it have swelled this tome to too great a size to have a single page on Ulsan a city of a million people.
Oh, and I've found some of the advice given about dealing with Koreans is simply wrong.
A good tour guide! September 29, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I only used it in Seoul a few times, but the information was helpful and accurate. The subway directions were especially useful because the guide included which station exit to walk out of for a particular site. The food & drink section was a life saver because it lists Korean dishes written in English and Hangul.
 buy this guide as your last resort September 16, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Lonely Planet's guides are getting worse to worst, especially for Asia. I wish they would stop employing solely former English teachers as writers, since alot of them dont know the local language very well or at all. Hello LP, ever thought of asking a Korean American/Australian/Canadian to write for your Korea guide? There are people in the world who are truly bilingual, binational. . . . and would be able to 'guide' better than a foreigner guiding other foreigners.
I bought the Seoul book because unfortunately there weren't many options out there for English speakers, but actually the Tourist offices in Seoul has better information and it's free.
The maps in the book are confusing; when you are on the streets looking for places there are street names but on the map there are not. It would help to if LP would include the places' names in Korean 'Han Gue' since LP's phonetic are not 100% anyway, and if you want to ask a Korean for help then it's better to have it written in Korean. The language section could use a couple more phrases like like 'not to spicy please.' The Seoul book is out of date, lots of places went out of bussiness. I also bought LP's Korea book and it has more up-to date info. Since all the writers in both guides are males, information for women travellers is pitiful. The layout is confusing and not easy to find, I had buy post-it tabs for different sections otherwise it would take more time find it again. THis is not a concised guide, there are two many overlaps, like there are two sections on food, but in the food glossary doesn't have some of the names of food mentioned elsewhere that takes up a whole paragraph.So buy this guide if English is the only language you can read.
Many deficiencies October 15, 2006
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I always purchase Lonely Planet (LP) books when I travel, and they have never steered me wrong. But, this LP Korea edition doesn't seem to follow the standard format to which I have become accustomed. To start with, the table of contents is almost non-existent. The table of contents in many LP books can be up to 10 pages. In this book, the table of contents is half a page. It is very difficult to find the section you are looking for.
Secondly, this book breaks up the useful facts for the visitor into two sections. For example, the sections regarding health, money, food, embassies and visas are in a chapter called "Directory" at the end of the book. In most if not all other LP books that I have read, these items appear at the beginning of the book, before they start discussing the individual locations. I wish that LP would maintain some consistency.
Lastly, the index is incomplete. They do a good job of listing all the place names in the index, but many key words which you might be searching for are not present. For example, neither "electricity" nor "weather" are listed in the index. For electricity, I just gave up looking in the book, and found the answers on line.
In summary, I believe that this book contains all the information one needs to travel in Korea, but the information can be very difficult to find within the book.
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