Travel guide

From Whistler to Colorado and the French Alps, there are plenty of great ski destinations around the world, and plenty of Australians who lap them up. But there are also some top spots that are much closer to home. Japan and New Zealand are both popular with the Australian market, and now Korea is coming into its own, thanks to an alpine wonderland called Yongpyong Ski Resort. This resort is about a two hour drive from Seoul and there are regular coach services to the resort also. More >

The Korea Tourism Organization’s new Visit Korea app is one of the hottest things in travel, based on data from Apple’s U.S. App Store.

The English version of the app was downloaded more than 36,000 times as of April 1. That puts it in second place in the store’s Top Free App category and 69th among all apps, according to KTO.

More >

South Korea will expand and upgrade its bullet train network to cut travel time from the capital to major cities to under an hour and a half and slash greenhouse gas emissions, officials said Sunday.

High-speed train services connecting Seoul and its suburbs with the southeastern region will be expanded to cities elsewhere in the country by 2020, the transportation ministry said. More >

The personal information of guests staying at a group of five-star hotels in Korea has been found on Google.
According to media reports Friday, customers’ information at the Ambassador Hotel Group, including names, birth dates, e-mail addresses, mobile phone numbers and even check-in and -out dates, can be found on the Internet search engine.
The hotel group and Google are blaming each other. More >

How to capture the essence of this fascinating, complex nation? Social relations may be grounded in ancient Confucianism but South Korea is most decidedly a forward-thinking country thanks to its hurry-hurry approach to everything, More >