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| Seoul (City Guide) | 
 enlarge | Author: Martin Robinson
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Category: Book
List Price: $19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (15 reviews)
Sales Rank: 110845
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 5
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 218
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 0.5
ISBN: 1740598466
Dewey Decimal Number: 915
EAN: 9781740598460
ASIN: 1740598466
Publication Date: June 1, 2006
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Product Description
Experience Seoul, Asia?s most intriguing city. Tour the grand royal palaces. Sing yourself hoarse in a noraebang (karaoke room). Stuff yourself with hearty beef and vegetable bibimbap. Indulge in exquisite traditional tea shops. This authoritative, bestselling guidebook will take you to the heart of Korea?s captivating capital.
Eliminate The Guesswork ? opinionated hotel reviews make the decisions easy.
Shop Your Socks Off ? reviews and tips take you to the city?s best traditional markets, glitzy malls, boutiques and galleries.
Discover the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) ? we take you on a once-in-a-lifetime trip to the formidable and fascinating North?South border.
Feast Like A King ? eating reviews serve up the city?s finest Korean fare, from spicy tofu and barbeque to Korean fusion and Hanjeongsik banquets.
Navigate through nameless streets with our clear and detailed maps ? complete with hangeul (Korean script).
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Some useful information August 15, 2008
Like other reviewers have said, this book has some useful information in it, but many many inaccuracies as well. The maps are generally not helpful and some of the locations in the book no longer exist. Besides this, almost every subway exit direction in the book that I tried to use was wrong ... often the exact opposite exit of what was actually the right one.
If you just use the book for ideas on things to do and places to go, then its a very useful reference. Using it for anything more, though, will probably lead to frustration.
 Seoul City Guide June 4, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great book! Very informative and very helpful. Definitely taking it with me to the city to use. It is small and convenient for packing and carrying.
 Stay Away. October 16, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
After reading the negatives reviews for this book, I went to B&N to judge for myself. Conclusion, stay away. That is all that I have to say....I can't really add upon the negative comments herein, yet that they are indeed valid.
That's all.
 buy this as the last resort September 16, 2007
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.
Completely weak June 3, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is one of the only travel books on Seoul that is easy to get. I have taken it with me on three trips to Seoul so far, and have found it almost useless. I got a better idea of places to visit from the map I got from the hotel and searching the internet than I did from this guide.
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