Leave on day 364 and you are owed nothing. Stay one more day and your employer owes you roughly a month's wages for that year — and another month for every year after it. Nothing about your nationality changes that. The Labor Standards Act for…
If you are going to elect the 19% flat rate, every won you spend between now and 31 December chasing a credit-card deduction is wasted money. The flat rate switches off deductions, exemptions, reductions and credits — all of them, not some of them. …
The short answer: dress for wind and for buildings , not for the number on your weather app. A still −3°C afternoon in Seoul is a pleasant walk. The same −3°C along the Han River with a northwesterly behind it is not, and your phone shows you the sa…
Here is the one thing that makes December 2026 different from any other December in Korea: Christmas Day falls on a Friday, and so does New Year's Day . Both are public holidays here. That gives Korea two back-to-back three-day weekends, ten day…
If you have been reading older guides, you may believe you need a K-ETA to enter Korea. For most of the people who ask me, that is currently wrong — and it is wrong in a way that has an expiry date on it. Here is the state of play as of early Octob…
November is the month most people skip when they plan a Korea trip, and it is the month I would pick if someone asked me. The autumn crowds thin out, the air turns dry and clear, and the last of the colour is still running down the southern half of …
If you are trying to time a trip to Korea around the autumn colours, there is one date on this year's forecast that matters more than the rest: October 3 . That is when the leaves are expected to start turning on Seoraksan, and it is the first d…
If you are living in Korea and thinking about picking up freelance work, tutoring, or an online side project, there are two separate questions to answer, and most guides only answer the second one. The first is whether you are allowed to do the wo…