Experience the best of Korea with Lonely Planet. Our 8th edition will have you checking out the chic boutiques and bars of Seoul, watching the spectacular Mass Games, dining on Busan seafood, hiking to volcanic craters and recuperating from it all on the island paradise of Jeju-do.

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This dynamic mash-up of night markets and K-pop, tranquil teahouses and temples, majestic palaces and mountains, glittering skyscrapers and pulsing neon, is a 21st-century urban marvel. Simon Richmond, Lonely Planet Writer
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The Korean Peninsula is a true travel gem: the South, a high-tech nation with a reverence for tradition and the ways of old Asia; the North, a challenging, geopolitical enigma. Simon Richmond, Lonely Planet Writer
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