About this site

The Korea Tourism Organization publishes an open data service covering the whole country — hundreds of thousands of attractions, places to stay, restaurants and festivals. It is detailed, well maintained, and almost entirely in Korean.

Foreign-language versions of that service exist, but they cover a small fraction of the catalogue, and the records missing from them are consistently the ones that would give a visitor a reason to travel outside Seoul: county festivals, regional trails, small museums, coastal towns. If you do not read Korean, a large part of the country is effectively undocumented.

This site reads the complete Korean dataset rather than the partial translated ones, and renders it into twelve languages. Every place name, description and festival listing here has been translated from the Korean original.

Translations are produced by a language model and checked only automatically. They are good enough to decide where to go and to show a name to a taxi driver; they are not a substitute for official information. Each place page keeps the Korean original visible alongside the translation for exactly that reason.

Alongside the translated data we publish original guides on the practical things the tourism records assume you already know — how intercity transport works, what a regional festival is actually like, what a temple stay involves. These are written by hand, not generated.

Tourism data comes from the Korea Tourism Organization’s TourAPI service. Opening hours, prices and event dates change and are not guaranteed; check the official source before travelling, especially for festivals, where dates move year to year.

If you find something wrong, please tell us. Corrections to our own writing are made directly; errors in the underlying tourism data have to be raised with the Korea Tourism Organization, but we would still like to know.

The site is supported by advertising. Ads never influence which places are listed or how they are described — the listings come from public data and are ordered by the tourism API, not by anyone paying us.