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Title: Moon Handbooks South Korea by Robert Nilsen ISBN: 1-56691-418-3 Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.06 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This book is Great.
Comment: The Moon Travel South Korean Handbook is one of the finest travelbooks and despite its age remains the best guide to seeing anything of interest to see on the peninsula. I am Korean and I use this guide when I tour temples or others attractions here.
Posters on this forum complain there are not enough refence to hotels and restaurants but dont realize that in Korea restaurants and many hotels come and go so fast that this information would be useless before the book hit the presses.
This is also true of bus numbers etc.
The information with regard to Cultural Attractions has super attention to detail and this is true when Nilsen describes out of the way more hidden treasures Korea has to offer.
Get this book !!!
Rating: 3
Summary: hmmm, not quite what i'd hoped for.
Comment: If you draw only one thing from this book, it must surely be the conclusion that Robert Nilsen has a deep love of Korea. The historical, cultural and practical information he provides is certainly not lacking in detail and for the most part is very useful. However, his partisan attitude is also the root of many of my critisisms. I travelled for 3 weeks with a Japanese friend and found that Japanese (nor English for that matter) is not particularly widely spoken at all, although Mr Nilsen appears to think it is. Some of his descriptions of historical events read like propaganda, somewhat lacking in objectivity, which also applies to some descriptions of places to visit. His tendency to wax lyrical can raise your expectations and leave you a little disappointed. At one point, he compares the: half dozen temples; one worthwhile museum; couple of peculiarities and seemingly several million burial mounds and buddist statues/paraphernalia, which all look exactly alike, of Kyong-ju, to the hundreds of temples, castles, palaces, zen gardens, museums etc, etc of Kyoto, in Japan. My other major critisism of this book is that it is badly in need of an update. Korea appears to have suffered from horrific inflation since the last time Mr Nilsen was there and prices quoted in the book may have risen by as much as 50%. If you use this book to budget your trip add AT LEAST another 30% onto your total. So, in conclusion.... Worthwhile reading, generally useful and informative, but take it with just a little pinch of salt - you've been warned!
Rating: 5
Summary: Fabulously helpful.
Comment: I used this book to learn how to read Hangul--which opened MANY doors--to plan many of my excursions, and to get places when nothing else worked. I was pleasantly surprised to find that even some details as precise as bus routes got me where I wanted to go, and the detailed information was much more informative and trustworthy than the tour guides I infrequently used. I wouldn't advise anyone to depend on any guidebook for things as ephermal as restaurant and bus line information, but in a pinch, this one worked just fine.
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Title: Lonely Planet Korean Phrasebook by Minkyoung Kim, J. D. Hilts ISBN: 1740591666 Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Seoul by Martin Robinson ISBN: 1740592182 Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Korea by Robert Storey, Alex English ISBN: 0864426976 Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Korea (Culture Shock!) by Sonja Vegdahl Hur, Ben Seunghwa Hur ISBN: 1558686215 Publisher: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Korean at a Glance by Daniel Holt, Grace Holt ISBN: 081203998X Publisher: Barron's Educational Series Pub. Date: 01 July, 1988 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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