Insight Guide Korea (Insight Guides)

Rating:
Summary: Excellent tourist guide
Review: If you are planning your first holiday in Korea and look for a compact, well organized and illustrated travel guide, take this one into consideration. It is being kept up to date and contains all the major and minor attractions that Koreans would tell you you should not miss. Addresses, maps, some background information on food, arts, religion etc., everything is ordered into seperate chapters and really "at your fingertips"; the main part of the book naturally covers locations of interest.

If you are interested in a better understanding of Korea's highest treasure, it's people, this is not the guide's purpose and it can only serve as an introduction. In this case you should for example go for D.N. Clark's "culture and customs" or D.M. Hoffman's "Lanterns on the river".