What Foreigners Ask Most About Korea – A Friendly Q&A Guide ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท ๐ŸŒ ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ์ด ์ž์ฃผ ๋ฌป๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ ๊ด€๋ จ ์งˆ๋ฌธ TOP 10

 



๐ŸŒ ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ์ด ์ž์ฃผ ๋ฌป๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ ๊ด€๋ จ ์งˆ๋ฌธ TOP 10

What Foreigners Ask Most About Korea – A Friendly Q&A Guide ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท


ํ•œ๊ตญ์— ๊ด€์‹ฌ ์žˆ๋Š” ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ์ด๋ผ๋ฉด ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ์ฏค์€ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ํ•ด๋ดค์„ ์งˆ๋ฌธ๋“ค!
๋น„์ž๋ถ€ํ„ฐ SIM ์นด๋“œ, ์Œ์‹, ๊ตํ†ต, ๋ฌธํ™”๊นŒ์ง€ —
์‹ค์ œ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ์ด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋งŽ์ด ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ดํ•˜๋Š” ์งˆ๋ฌธ 10๊ฐ€์ง€๋ฅผ ์ •๋ฆฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
์—ฌํ–‰ ์ค€๋น„ ์ค‘์ด๊ฑฐ๋‚˜, ํ•œ๊ตญ ์ƒํ™œ์ด ์ฒ˜์Œ์ด๋ผ๋ฉด ๊ผญ ์ฐธ๊ณ ํ•ด๋ณด์„ธ์š”.

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. ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท


✅ 1. ํ•œ๊ตญ์€ ๋น„์ž ์—†์ด ์—ฌํ–‰ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”?

Can I visit Korea without a visa?

๋„ค, ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€์—์„œ 90์ผ ๋ฌด๋น„์ž ์ž…๊ตญ์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ด์š”.
๋‹ค๋งŒ, K-ETA (์ „์ž ์—ฌํ–‰ ํ—ˆ๊ฐ€) ์‹ ์ฒญ์€ ํ•„์ˆ˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
๐Ÿ‘‰ ๊ณต์‹ ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ์—์„œ ๊ฐ„๋‹จํžˆ ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐœ๊ธ‰๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.

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).
๐Ÿ‘‰ Apply here: www.k-eta.go.kr


✅ 2. SIM ์นด๋“œ๋ž‘ eSIM ์ค‘ ์–ด๋–ค ๊ฒŒ ๋” ํŽธํ•˜์ฃ ?

Should I get a SIM card or eSIM in Korea?

๐Ÿ“ฑ ์ตœ์‹  ์Šค๋งˆํŠธํฐ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๋ผ๋ฉด eSIM์ด ํŽธ๋ฆฌํ•ด์š”.
QR์ฝ”๋“œ๋งŒ ์Šค์บ”ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ฐœํ†ต ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‹ˆ๊นŒ์š”.
๐Ÿ“ฆ ์ผ๋ฐ˜ SIM์นด๋“œ๋Š” ๊ณตํ•ญ์ด๋‚˜ ํŽธ์˜์ ์—์„œ ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ๊ตฌ๋งค ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ด์š”.

๊ฐ„๋‹จ ๋น„๊ต:

  • eSIM: ์„ค์น˜ ๋น ๋ฆ„, ์นฉ ํ•„์š” ์—†์Œ

  • SIM ์นด๋“œ: ํ˜ธํ™˜์„ฑ ์ข‹๊ณ , ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ ์‰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
    ๐Ÿ‘‰ Perfect for short-term travelers!


✅ 3. ๋Œ€์ค‘๊ตํ†ต ์ด์šฉํ•  ๋•Œ ๊ตํ†ต์นด๋“œ๋Š” ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์จ์š”?

How do I use public transportation in Korea?

์„œ์šธ์„ ํฌํ•จํ•œ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ ๋„์‹œ์—์„œ๋Š” T-money ์นด๋“œ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋ฉด OK!
์ง€ํ•˜์ฒ , ๋ฒ„์Šค, ์‹ฌ์ง€์–ด ํƒ์‹œ๊นŒ์ง€ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ณ ,
ํŽธ์˜์ ์ด๋‚˜ ์—ญ์—์„œ ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ์ถฉ์ „ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ด์š”.

๐Ÿ’ณ ์—ฌํ–‰ ์ฒซ๋‚  ๋ฐ”๋กœ ํ•˜๋‚˜ ๊ตฌ์ž…ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑธ ์ถ”์ฒœํ•ด์š”.

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.

๐Ÿ’ณ Get one as soon as you arrive!


✅ 4. ํ•œ๊ตญ ์Œ์‹์€ ๋‹ค ๋งค์šด๊ฐ€์š”?

Is Korean food always spicy?

๐Ÿ”ฅ ๋ฌผ๋ก  ๋งค์šด ์Œ์‹๋„ ๋งŽ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ „๋ถ€ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๊ฑด ์•„๋‹ˆ์—์š”!
๋Œ€ํ‘œ์ ์ธ ๋งค์šด ์Œ์‹: ๋–ก๋ณถ์ด, ๊น€์น˜์ฐŒ๊ฐœ, ๋ถˆ๋‹ญ๋ณถ์Œ๋ฉด
ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ฐˆ๋น„ํƒ•, ๋น„๋น”๋ฐฅ, ์žก์ฑ„ ๋“ฑ ์ˆœํ•œ ์Œ์‹๋„ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•ด์š”.

์Œ์‹์ ์—์„œ๋Š” “์•ˆ ๋งต๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์ฃผ์„ธ์š””๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ•˜๋ฉด ์กฐ์ ˆํ•ด์ค„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
๐Ÿ‘‰ “Please make it not spicy.”

Not always! While dishes like tteokbokki or kimchi stew can be spicy, there are plenty of mild options:
๐Ÿš Bibimbap
๐Ÿฅฉ Galbitang (short rib soup)
๐ŸฅŸ Mandu (dumplings)

Just say “์•ˆ ๋งต๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์ฃผ์„ธ์š”” – “Please make it not spicy” at restaurants!


✅ 5. ์˜์–ด๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์—ฌํ–‰ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ• ๊นŒ์š”?

Can I travel around Korea with only English?

๊ด€๊ด‘์ง€์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ด์š”!
ํŠนํžˆ ์„œ์šธ, ๋ถ€์‚ฐ, ์ œ์ฃผ๋„ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ง€์—ญ์€ ์˜์–ด ์•ˆ๋‚ด ํ‘œ์ง€ํŒ๋„ ๋งŽ๊ณ 
์ Š์€ ์„ธ๋Œ€๋Š” ์˜์–ด๋กœ ๊ฐ„๋‹จํ•œ ๋Œ€ํ™”๋„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ด์š”.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ž‘์€ ๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ๋‚˜ ์ง€๋ฐฉ์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ฐ„๋‹จํ•œ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ํ‘œํ˜„์ด ์œ ๋ฆฌํ•ด์š”.

  • ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š” (Hello)

  • ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค (Thank you)

  • ์–ผ๋งˆ์˜ˆ์š”? (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: ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š” (Annyeonghaseyo)

    • Thank you: ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค (Gamsahamnida)

    • How much is it?: ์–ผ๋งˆ์˜ˆ์š”? (Eolmayeyo?)


✅ 6. ํ˜ผ์ž ์—ฌํ–‰ํ•ด๋„ ์•ˆ์ „ํ• ๊นŒ์š”?

Is Korea safe for solo travelers?









ํ•œ๊ตญ์€ ์„ธ๊ณ„์ ์œผ๋กœ ์•ˆ์ „ํ•œ ๋‚˜๋ผ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋กœ ์•Œ๋ ค์ ธ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.

๋ฐค์—๋„ ํ˜ผ์ž ๋‹ค๋‹ˆ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ๋งŽ๊ณ , ๋ฒ”์ฃ„์œจ๋„ ๋‚ฎ์€ ํŽธ์ด์—์š”.
๋‹ค๋งŒ ์–ด๋””๋“  ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ์ฃผ์˜๋Š” ํ•ญ์ƒ ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๊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. ์–ด๋””๋ฅผ ๊ผญ ๊ฐ€์•ผ ํ•˜๋‚˜์š”?

What are must-visit places in Korea?

๐Ÿ“์„œ์šธ: ๊ฒฝ๋ณต๊ถ, ๋‚จ์‚ฐํƒ€์›Œ, ํ™๋Œ€ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ
๐Ÿ“๋ถ€์‚ฐ: ํ•ด์šด๋Œ€, ๊ฐ์ฒœ๋ฌธํ™”๋งˆ์„
๐Ÿ“์ œ์ฃผ๋„: ์„ฑ์‚ฐ์ผ์ถœ๋ด‰, ํ•œ๋ผ์‚ฐ, ์˜ค๋ฆ„ ํŠธ๋ ˆํ‚น

๋˜ํ•œ K-๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ ํŒฌ์ด๋ผ๋ฉด ์ดฌ์˜์ง€ ํˆฌ์–ด๋„ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅ ์ถ”์ฒœ!

Here are the top picks:
๐Ÿ“ Seoul: Gyeongbokgung Palace, Myeongdong, Hongdae
๐Ÿ“ Busan: Haeundae Beach, Gamcheon Village
๐Ÿ“ Jeju Island: Sunrise Peak, Hallasan, local markets

Also, many fans love visiting K-drama filming spots!


✅ 8. ํ•œ๊ตญ ํŽธ์˜์ ์—์„œ ์ถ”์ฒœํ•˜๋Š” ์Œ์‹์€?

What should I try at Korean convenience stores?

ํ•œ๊ตญ ํŽธ์˜์ ์€ ์ฒœ๊ตญ์ด์—์š”!
์ถ”์ฒœ ๊ฐ„์‹ ๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ:

  • ์‚ผ๊ฐ๊น€๋ฐฅ (Triangle kimbap)

  • ์ฆ‰์„๋ผ๋ฉด (Instant ramen)

  • ํ˜ธ๋นต, ์š”๊ตฌ๋ฅดํŠธ, ์Šค๋‚ต๋ฅ˜

๐Ÿœ ๋งค์žฅ์—์„œ ์ง์ ‘ ์กฐ๋ฆฌํ•ด์„œ ๋จน์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ฆ‰์„ ์Œ์‹๋„ ๋งŽ์•„์š”!

Convenience stores in Korea are amazing.
Try:

  • ์‚ผ๊ฐ๊น€๋ฐฅ (triangle kimbap)

  • ์ฆ‰์„๋ผ๋ฉด (instant ramen, cooked in-store)

  • ๋งˆ์‹œ๋Š” ์š”๊ตฌ๋ฅดํŠธ (drinkable yogurt)

  • ํ˜ธ๋–ก (sweet pancake)

They’re quick, cheap, and surprisingly tasty.


✅ 9. ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋ฌธํ™”์—์„œ ์กฐ์‹ฌํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ์˜ˆ์ ˆ์€?

What cultural manners or taboos should I be aware of?

๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท ํ•œ๊ตญ์—๋Š” ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์˜ˆ์ ˆ ๋ฌธํ™”๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์–ด์š”:

  • ์ “๊ฐ€๋ฝ์„ ๋ฐฅ์— ๊ฝ‚์ง€ ์•Š๊ธฐ

  • ์–ด๋ฅธ์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ๋‘ ์†์œผ๋กœ ๋ฌผ๊ฑด ๊ฑด๋„ค๊ธฐ

  • ์ง‘ ์•ˆ์— ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐˆ ๋•Œ ์‹ ๋ฐœ ๋ฒ—๊ธฐ

  • ๊ณต๊ณต์žฅ์†Œ์—์„œ๋Š” ํฐ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ ์ž์ œํ•˜๊ธฐ

์ด๋Ÿฐ ๋ฌธํ™”๋งŒ ์ž˜ ์ง€์ผœ๋„ ํ˜ธ๊ฐ๋„ UP!

Yes – a few important ones:

❌ Don’t stick chopsticks upright in rice
๐Ÿ™ Use two hands when giving/receiving something
๐Ÿšซ Avoid loud conversations in public
๐Ÿ‘Ÿ Always take off shoes when entering someone’s home

Respecting these customs goes a long way!


✅ 10. ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ๋ชฐ๋ผ๋„ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ๋‚˜์š”?

Is it okay if I don’t speak Korean?

๋„ค, ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„์š”.
ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ธฐ์ดˆ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ํ‘œํ˜„ ๋ช‡ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋Š” ์ตํ˜€๋‘๋ฉด ํ›จ์”ฌ ํŽธํ•ด์š”.
๋ฒˆ์—ญ ์•ฑ์€ Papago๋ฅผ ์ถ”์ฒœ!
๋˜๋Š” YouTube์— ๊ธฐ์ดˆ ํšŒํ™” ๊ฐ•์ขŒ๋„ ๋งŽ์•„์š”.

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!


๐Ÿ’ฌ ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ํ•œ๋งˆ๋””

์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ค์ด ํ•œ๊ตญ์„ ์—ฌํ–‰ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์‚ด๋ฉด์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ดํ•˜๋Š” ์งˆ๋ฌธ๋“ค,
์ƒ๊ฐ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ๊ผญ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ์ •๋ณด๋“ค์ด์ฃ ?

์ด Q&A ๊ฐ€์ด๋“œ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด
๋” ํŽธํ•˜๊ณ  ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์šด ํ•œ๊ตญ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜๊ธธ ๋ฐ”๋ผ์š”!
ํ•œ๊ตญ์„ ์ฒ˜์Œ ์ฐพ๋Š” ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ๋„ ๊ผญ ๊ณต์œ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” ๐Ÿ˜Š

๐Ÿ“Œ 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! ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท๐ŸŒ


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