A personalized Korea itinerary, from someone who lives there
It's like a friend who lives there telling you where to go. Your whole trip, laid out from a short questionnaire about your dates, your pace, and how you actually eat and travel. A designed book: every place one I'd send a friend to, every name a tap to its live Naver page. In your inbox within 48 hours, with a two-week pass for the whole guide.
Personalized itinerary
US$55 · one trip, up to a week · longer trips US$69 · the full guide included
Your trip, decided: Seoul, Jeju, Busan and beyond, built from a short questionnaire about how you actually travel.
- Day by day for your dates, around a neighborhood, in the order I'd walk it
- A generous spread each day: coffee, bakeries, the tables, the shops, a night out
- Places I'd send a friend — no viral stops, no commissions
- Every venue verified, linked to its live Naver page
- The facts that save a day: closed days, queue apps, what to book
- Matched to how you eat, vegetarian to vegan to no-pork to an allergy
- A designed book, in your inbox within 48 hours
- A two-week pass for the whole guide, in its own email
A few minutes about your trip. Payment comes at the end.
Three pages from a two-day sample. Yours is built for your own trip, and runs deeper.
The guide comes with it
Alongside the book, the guide I keep at afriendwholivesthere.com goes on your phone for the trip: 1,089 places across 27 Seoul neighborhoods, each with my call on it: what to order, how to get in, or where I'd go instead. A map, the walks I'd take, and what's near you wherever you're standing. It works offline, with nothing to install.
A two-week pass for it comes with your book, in its own email. On its own, a 30-day pass is US$14.99.
Eating vegetarian, vegan, or with an allergy?
Every day of your book is built around it. If you want the honest lay of the land first, I wrote it up here: vegetarian & vegan in Korea.
Questions before you start?
Email me. I answer every one myself: jay@lifeguide.world