Made for the journey

A phrasebook should earn its place in your bag. This edition follows a real travel sequence, so the next useful conversation is usually only a page away.

What is in this English edition

Eighty conversations with word and grammar notes beside each sentence, eighty scene illustrations and twenty phrase labs. A practical guide covers planning, food, etiquette, history and sensitive conversations. The place directories add one hundred attractions and one hundred named places to eat, with clickable Korean addresses. Four station guides match forty Seoul and metropolitan-area attractions to rail connections. Every scene pairs polite Korean with a romanization guide and a natural English meaning. The days suggest an itinerary; they do not promise journey times or availability.

A master for later language editions

The companion source package keeps Korean dialogue, romanization, English meaning, scene IDs, route notes and illustration files separate. Future editions can translate the explanations and meanings while preserving the Korean learning text and the same navigation targets.

Nine further languages can be added to that structure once the languages are selected. They are not included in this edition.

Illustration and map notes

The scene drawings are original simplified vector artwork. The original maps are editorial schematics drawn for this route. Appendix C2 adds a reader-supplied metropolitan rail map, with its original Seoul Metropolitan Government and Seoul Metro credits retained. Live network links appear in the appendices.

Edition details

English master · Version 2.0
Prepared 10 November 2026
Currency: Korean won (KRW)
Typeface: Noto Sans CJK Korean and DejaVu Serif / Sans, using their open font licences.