Visiting Korea?
Plan for the season and learn to read the official alerts before you travel. Dates and warnings come from public forecasters, not from us.
Hello from Korea
Everyday Korea,
warmly observed.
Practical guides to the everyday Korea newcomers keep running into — the weather alert that interrupts dinner, the bank limit nobody mentions, the holiday that does not come back on Monday — alongside one family's dated records of baby milestones and small routines.
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Pick a path
What sounds useful today?
Start with a meal, a custom, an everyday errand, the full shelf of guides or one of our family milestones. Each path keeps the practical answer close to the life around it.
Start with your question
Find the answer you came for.
A first visit, a move or a family invitation needs a different starting point. These reading paths connect an explanation to the decision it can help with.
Settling into daily life?
Start with the rules that depend on your status. A bank's published limits and an insurer's decision matter more than a general guide.
Invited to a first birthday?
Two dated family records show the practical decisions behind Korea's baby milestones. One family's plan is not a rule for everyone.
Latest guides
Practical answers, with the human bits left in.
Each guide begins with one real question, keeps useful Korean words in Hangul, and makes it clear what an official source says, what is our explanation and what may change.
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Guide
Korea's Company-Sponsored University Majors Come With A Seat Cap And A Bill Split
How Korea's company-sponsored contract departments work: the 20% seat cap, the 50% cost rule, what the hiring promise says, and what protects stude...
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Guide
Korean Celadon Labels Describe Techniques, Not Exclusive Boxes
How to read Korean celadon labels: what 음각, 양각, 상감 and 동화 퇴화 mean, where they sit in a title, and why one inlaid bowl is also incised.
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Guide
Korea's Secondhand Boom Runs On Rules Many Sellers Never Read
What you can and cannot legally resell on Korean secondhand apps: food and medicine bans, the supplements pilot, the July 2026 identity change, and...
From our family album
Small family days, worth keeping.
These are not instructions for every family. They are our dated records from Korea: rainy outings, tiny milestones, plans that worked and a few that cheerfully did not.
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Family record
Inside a Korean Department-Store Baby Class
Our first Korean department-store baby class: funny photographs, a happily busy baby and the practical details that made the outing work.
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Family record
Singapore Rain with a Six-Month-Old
Rain, two naps and one flexible day in Singapore with a six-month-old: the family itinerary that improved when most of the plan disappeared.
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Family record
The Baby Passport Photo I Would Not Repeat
A home passport-photo shortcut looked wonderfully practical in 2024. Current Korean rules are exactly why I would not repeat it.
How the journal works
Useful context, warmly told.
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The little things that help
We explain the unwritten part of a rule: why a new bank account stops at a million won a day, why a Saturday holiday sometimes earns a Monday off and sometimes does not, or what the two words at the end of a Korean weather warning actually mean.
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Our real family record
The diary and albums hold INa's milestones, family trips and ordinary in-between days. The linked Korean Naver archive carries the longer, chattier record behind this English site.
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Transparent editing
AI may assist research, drafting and editorial imagery, but it is not treated as a source or disguised as documentary evidence. The editorial policy explains the workflow and correction standard.
Behind JellyGGumi
Written from a busy family home in Korea
I am INa's parent, writing down the parts of Korean life our family keeps noticing. This is a personal journal rather than a travel agency or official authority, so lived moments stay labelled, changing rules point to the operator, and kind corrections are always welcome.