What Foreigners Ask Most About Korea – A Friendly Q&A Guide ๐ฐ๐ท ๐ ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ์ด ์์ฃผ ๋ฌป๋ ํ๊ตญ ๊ด๋ จ ์ง๋ฌธ TOP 10
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What Foreigners Ask Most About Korea – A Friendly Q&A Guide ๐ฐ๐ท
ํ๊ตญ์ ๊ด์ฌ ์๋ ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ์ด๋ผ๋ฉด ํ ๋ฒ์ฏค์ ๊ฒ์ํด๋ดค์ ์ง๋ฌธ๋ค!
๋น์๋ถํฐ SIM ์นด๋, ์์, ๊ตํต, ๋ฌธํ๊น์ง —
์ค์ ๊ฒ์ ๋ฐ์ดํฐ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ผ๋ก ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ์ด ๊ฐ์ฅ ๋ง์ด ๊ถ๊ธํดํ๋ ์ง๋ฌธ 10๊ฐ์ง๋ฅผ ์ ๋ฆฌํ์ต๋๋ค.
์ฌํ ์ค๋น ์ค์ด๊ฑฐ๋, ํ๊ตญ ์ํ์ด ์ฒ์์ด๋ผ๋ฉด ๊ผญ ์ฐธ๊ณ ํด๋ณด์ธ์.
Whether you're planning your first trip to South Korea or you're just fascinated by K-pop and Korean dramas, you're not alone. Every month, thousands of global travelers ask the same questions about Korea on Google.
So here it is — a complete guide to the Top 10 most frequently asked questions about Korea, with clear and helpful answers.
This blog post is especially for first-time visitors, K-culture fans, and digital nomads preparing for their adventure in Korea. ๐ฐ๐ท
✅ 1. ํ๊ตญ์ ๋น์ ์์ด ์ฌํํ ์ ์๋์?
Can I visit Korea without a visa?
๋ค, ๋๋ถ๋ถ์ ๊ตญ๊ฐ์์ 90์ผ ๋ฌด๋น์ ์
๊ตญ์ด ๊ฐ๋ฅํด์.
๋ค๋ง, K-ETA (์ ์ ์ฌํ ํ๊ฐ) ์ ์ฒญ์ ํ์์
๋๋ค.
๐ ๊ณต์ ์ฌ์ดํธ์์ ๊ฐ๋จํ ์จ๋ผ์ธ์ผ๋ก ๋ฐ๊ธ๋ฐ์ ์ ์์ด์.
Most travelers from the US, Europe, and many parts of Asia can visit Korea visa-free for up to 90 days, but you’ll need to apply for K-ETA (Korea Electronic Travel Authorization).
๐ Apply here: www.k-eta.go.kr
✅ 2. SIM ์นด๋๋ eSIM ์ค ์ด๋ค ๊ฒ ๋ ํธํ์ฃ ?
Should I get a SIM card or eSIM in Korea?
๐ฑ ์ต์ ์ค๋งํธํฐ ์ฌ์ฉ์๋ผ๋ฉด eSIM์ด ํธ๋ฆฌํด์.
QR์ฝ๋๋ง ์ค์บํ๋ฉด ๋ฐ๋ก ๊ฐํต ๊ฐ๋ฅํ๋๊น์.
๐ฆ ์ผ๋ฐ SIM์นด๋๋ ๊ณตํญ์ด๋ ํธ์์ ์์ ์ฝ๊ฒ ๊ตฌ๋งค ๊ฐ๋ฅํด์.
๊ฐ๋จ ๋น๊ต:
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eSIM: ์ค์น ๋น ๋ฆ, ์นฉ ํ์ ์์
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SIM ์นด๋: ํธํ์ฑ ์ข๊ณ , ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ ๋ณ๊ฒฝ ์ฌ์
If your phone supports eSIM (like iPhone 11 or newer), that’s the easiest option. Just scan a QR code and you're connected!
But if not, don’t worry — SIM cards are sold at airports and convenience stores.✔ eSIM: Instant, no physical chip
✔ SIM card: More flexible, widely available
๐ Perfect for short-term travelers!
✅ 3. ๋์ค๊ตํต ์ด์ฉํ ๋ ๊ตํต์นด๋๋ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์จ์?
How do I use public transportation in Korea?
์์ธ์ ํฌํจํ ๋๋ถ๋ถ ๋์์์๋ T-money ์นด๋ ํ๋๋ฉด OK!
์งํ์ฒ , ๋ฒ์ค, ์ฌ์ง์ด ํ์๊น์ง ์ฌ์ฉํ ์ ์๊ณ ,
ํธ์์ ์ด๋ ์ญ์์ ์ฝ๊ฒ ์ถฉ์ ๊ฐ๋ฅํด์.
๐ณ ์ฌํ ์ฒซ๋ ๋ฐ๋ก ํ๋ ๊ตฌ์ ํ๋ ๊ฑธ ์ถ์ฒํด์.
The T-money card is your best friend.
You can use it for subways, buses, and even taxis in Seoul and other cities.
Recharge it at convenience stores or stations.
๐ณ Get one as soon as you arrive!
✅ 4. ํ๊ตญ ์์์ ๋ค ๋งค์ด๊ฐ์?
Is Korean food always spicy?
๐ฅ ๋ฌผ๋ก ๋งค์ด ์์๋ ๋ง์ง๋ง, ์ ๋ถ ๊ทธ๋ฐ ๊ฑด ์๋์์!
๋ํ์ ์ธ ๋งค์ด ์์: ๋ก๋ณถ์ด, ๊น์น์ฐ๊ฐ, ๋ถ๋ญ๋ณถ์๋ฉด
ํ์ง๋ง ๊ฐ๋นํ, ๋น๋น๋ฐฅ, ์ก์ฑ ๋ฑ ์ํ ์์๋ ๋ค์ํด์.
์์์ ์์๋ “์ ๋งต๊ฒ ํด์ฃผ์ธ์”๋ผ๊ณ ๋งํ๋ฉด ์กฐ์ ํด์ค ์ ์์ด์.
๐ “Please make it not spicy.”
Not always! While dishes like tteokbokki or kimchi stew can be spicy, there are plenty of mild options:
๐ Bibimbap
๐ฅฉ Galbitang (short rib soup)
๐ฅ Mandu (dumplings)
Just say “์ ๋งต๊ฒ ํด์ฃผ์ธ์” – “Please make it not spicy” at restaurants!
✅ 5. ์์ด๋ง์ผ๋ก ํ๊ตญ ์ฌํ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ ๊น์?
Can I travel around Korea with only English?
๊ด๊ด์ง์์๋ ๊ฐ๋ฅํด์!
ํนํ ์์ธ, ๋ถ์ฐ, ์ ์ฃผ๋ ๊ฐ์ ์ง์ญ์ ์์ด ์๋ด ํ์งํ๋ ๋ง๊ณ
์ ์ ์ธ๋๋ ์์ด๋ก ๊ฐ๋จํ ๋ํ๋ ๊ฐ๋ฅํด์.
ํ์ง๋ง ์์ ๊ฐ๊ฒ๋ ์ง๋ฐฉ์์๋ ๊ฐ๋จํ ํ๊ตญ์ด ํํ์ด ์ ๋ฆฌํด์.
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์๋ ํ์ธ์ (Hello)
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๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค (Thank you)
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์ผ๋ง์์? (How much is it?)
Yes – in most tourist areas!
In Seoul, Busan, and Jeju, many signs are in English, and younger Koreans often speak it well.
Still, it's helpful to learn a few Korean words like:-
Hello: ์๋ ํ์ธ์ (Annyeonghaseyo)
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Thank you: ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค (Gamsahamnida)
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How much is it?: ์ผ๋ง์์? (Eolmayeyo?)
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✅ 6. ํผ์ ์ฌํํด๋ ์์ ํ ๊น์?
Is Korea safe for solo travelers?
ํ๊ตญ์ ์ธ๊ณ์ ์ผ๋ก ์์ ํ ๋๋ผ ์ค ํ๋๋ก ์๋ ค์ ธ ์์ด์.
๋ฐค์๋ ํผ์ ๋ค๋๋ ์ฌ๋์ด ๋ง๊ณ , ๋ฒ์ฃ์จ๋ ๋ฎ์ ํธ์ด์์.
๋ค๋ง ์ด๋๋ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ์ฃผ์๋ ํญ์ ํ์ํ๊ฒ ์ฃ !
Absolutely. Korea is known for being one of the safest countries in Asia.
Even at night, you’ll see people walking around comfortably.
But as always, use common sense – especially outside main cities.
✅ 7. ์ด๋๋ฅผ ๊ผญ ๊ฐ์ผ ํ๋์?
What are must-visit places in Korea?
๐์์ธ: ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ, ๋จ์ฐํ์, ํ๋ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ
๐๋ถ์ฐ: ํด์ด๋, ๊ฐ์ฒ๋ฌธํ๋ง์
๐์ ์ฃผ๋: ์ฑ์ฐ์ผ์ถ๋ด, ํ๋ผ์ฐ, ์ค๋ฆ ํธ๋ ํน
๋ํ K-๋๋ผ๋ง ํฌ์ด๋ผ๋ฉด ์ดฌ์์ง ํฌ์ด๋ ๊ฐ๋ ฅ ์ถ์ฒ!
Here are the top picks:
๐ Seoul: Gyeongbokgung Palace, Myeongdong, Hongdae
๐ Busan: Haeundae Beach, Gamcheon Village
๐ Jeju Island: Sunrise Peak, Hallasan, local markets
Also, many fans love visiting K-drama filming spots!
✅ 8. ํ๊ตญ ํธ์์ ์์ ์ถ์ฒํ๋ ์์์?
What should I try at Korean convenience stores?
ํ๊ตญ ํธ์์ ์ ์ฒ๊ตญ์ด์์!
์ถ์ฒ ๊ฐ์ ๋ฆฌ์คํธ:
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์ผ๊ฐ๊น๋ฐฅ (Triangle kimbap)
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์ฆ์๋ผ๋ฉด (Instant ramen)
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ํธ๋นต, ์๊ตฌ๋ฅดํธ, ์ค๋ต๋ฅ
๐ ๋งค์ฅ์์ ์ง์ ์กฐ๋ฆฌํด์ ๋จน์ ์ ์๋ ์ฆ์ ์์๋ ๋ง์์!
Convenience stores in Korea are amazing.
Try:
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์ผ๊ฐ๊น๋ฐฅ (triangle kimbap)
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์ฆ์๋ผ๋ฉด (instant ramen, cooked in-store)
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๋ง์๋ ์๊ตฌ๋ฅดํธ (drinkable yogurt)
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ํธ๋ก (sweet pancake)
They’re quick, cheap, and surprisingly tasty.
✅ 9. ํ๊ตญ ๋ฌธํ์์ ์กฐ์ฌํด์ผ ํ ์์ ์?
What cultural manners or taboos should I be aware of?
๐ฐ๐ท ํ๊ตญ์๋ ์ค์ํ ์์ ๋ฌธํ๊ฐ ์์ด์:
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์ ๊ฐ๋ฝ์ ๋ฐฅ์ ๊ฝ์ง ์๊ธฐ
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์ด๋ฅธ์๊ฒ๋ ๋ ์์ผ๋ก ๋ฌผ๊ฑด ๊ฑด๋ค๊ธฐ
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์ง ์์ ๋ค์ด๊ฐ ๋ ์ ๋ฐ ๋ฒ๊ธฐ
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๊ณต๊ณต์ฅ์์์๋ ํฐ ์๋ฆฌ ์์ ํ๊ธฐ
์ด๋ฐ ๋ฌธํ๋ง ์ ์ง์ผ๋ ํธ๊ฐ๋ UP!
Yes – a few important ones:
❌ Don’t stick chopsticks upright in rice
๐ Use two hands when giving/receiving something
๐ซ Avoid loud conversations in public
๐ Always take off shoes when entering someone’s home
Respecting these customs goes a long way!
✅ 10. ํ๊ตญ์ด ๋ชฐ๋ผ๋ ๊ด์ฐฎ๋์?
Is it okay if I don’t speak Korean?
๋ค, ๊ด์ฐฎ์์.
ํ์ง๋ง ๊ธฐ์ด ํ๊ตญ์ด ํํ ๋ช ๊ฐ์ง๋ ์ตํ๋๋ฉด ํจ์ฌ ํธํด์.
๋ฒ์ญ ์ฑ์ Papago๋ฅผ ์ถ์ฒ!
๋๋ YouTube์ ๊ธฐ์ด ํํ ๊ฐ์ข๋ ๋ง์์.
No, but learning the basics helps.
Use apps like Papago or Google Translate, and try out some beginner-friendly Korean phrases.
Most Koreans appreciate the effort!
๐ฌ ๋ง๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ํ๋ง๋
์ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋ค์ด ํ๊ตญ์ ์ฌํํ๊ฑฐ๋ ์ด๋ฉด์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ๊ถ๊ธํดํ๋ ์ง๋ฌธ๋ค,
์๊ฐ๋ณด๋ค ๋จ์ํ๋ฉด์๋ ๊ผญ ํ์ํ ์ ๋ณด๋ค์ด์ฃ ?
์ด Q&A ๊ฐ์ด๋๋ฅผ ํตํด
๋ ํธํ๊ณ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์ด ํ๊ตญ ๊ฒฝํ์ ์ค๋นํ๊ธธ ๋ฐ๋ผ์!
ํ๊ตญ์ ์ฒ์ ์ฐพ๋ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค์๊ฒ๋ ๊ผญ ๊ณต์ ํด ์ฃผ์ธ์ ๐
๐ Final Thoughts
If you had any of these questions in your head, you're not alone. These are exactly what millions of travelers are asking before they visit Korea.
Bookmark this guide, and share it with friends planning to explore Korea in 2025! ๐ฐ๐ท๐
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