travel blog

hey,

I've decided to start a Korean travel blog, you can connect to it via my blogspace, or look it up: isteacherstravelogueblog. My goal is to make a fairly solid list of places in Korea to visit that are not Seoul. I've found that good info on non-Seoul Korea can be hard to come by, and when it exists it is written as though it is a day trip from Seoul. Even Lonely Planet, who are usually very reliable, give more press time to North Korea and Seoul than to any of the provinces. Also, I find that the Korean sources are A: in Korean or B: tell you that EVERYTHING there is so important and is a must see (thus not giving a real opinion, I know for a fact that every rock on jeju-do is not really a photo op) but then fail to give information such as directions. I also find things are often lost in Konglish.

This being the case, I've decided to start writing short blogs giving places, things to see there, how to get there, relevant background info (sometimes with a wikipedia link :P). I'd also like to invite anyone with good stories/info on a place in Korea to submit one. I have done haeinsa as a sample so far, and I am slowly going to do a few others. However, I have not exactly covered the country and so would love people who have seen cool stuff, or have cool stories to add to email them and I'll try to add them is as best I can.

If you do please try to include rough estimate of costs, how you got there and what you liked or didn't like. Otherwise, check it out if you are tired of the western bar scene in you local city.