Travel Trap Wiki
A Korean-language wiki of travel traps and hidden costs, written as facts with a source and a check date on every item. This page lists the documents that exist in English. The rest of the site is in Korean.
In English
- South Korea: business etiquette for visiting professionals
The customs a first-time business visitor to Korea most often gets wrong, from business cards and titles to seating order, after-work dinners, gifts, and the anti-graft law caps. Items stated in the U.S. Commerce Department's Country Commercial Guide are marked official; the rest are cross-checked across several etiquette guides and marked as pending primary confirmation.
30 items - Disaster Alerts Abroad, Country by Country
A disaster alert on your phone abroad arrives through that country's own system, in whatever language it supports, not automatically in Korean. We cover confirmed facts, with sources and check dates, for five countries: Japan, the US, Taiwan, Thailand, and Australia. We do not relay alerts ourselves; we only explain what arrives and in what language.
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How to read the source badges
Official source means the custom is stated in a government publication, here the U.S. Commerce Department's Country Commercial Guide for South Korea. Secondary guides means several commercial etiquette guides say the same thing and we have not yet confirmed it against a primary source; those items carry a dashed badge that says so. Press report means newspapers or law firm alerts. We do not publish anything without a source.
The daily quiz at /quiz draws questions from these items but is currently in Korean.