I, China's exit notes:
1) through the customs: those who are required to declare the goods (video camera, detachable long focal length lens) please choose the red channel, those who do not need to declare the green channel. Each person is allowed to carry 5,000 US dollars, or the equivalent of 5,000 US dollars, at the same time.
3) Checked baggage: no more than 20 kilograms.
4) Passing through the border control: fill out the exit card, wait outside the one-meter line, and show your passport and boarding pass.
5) Passing through security check: unload your belongings for inspection. (Note: Small knives and makeup scissors are not allowed to be carried on board).
6)Please be sure to bring your ID card with you!
2. Notes on entering Korea:
1) It is strictly prohibited to bring smuggled and prohibited goods.
2) Fresh fruits are strictly prohibited;
3) Meat delicatessen and fruits are strictly prohibited due to the spread of worldwide animal diseases.
4) Individuals or in family units on airplanes are required to fill out a customs declaration.
5) If you are carrying more than 10,000 U.S. dollars when you enter the country, you must declare it. Otherwise, you will be annoyed if you are spot-checked on your return trip.
6) Due to Korea's political sensitivity, all books, newspapers and magazines related to Korean politics will be confiscated.
7) You can bring 200 cigarettes and one bottle of wine duty-free.
Third, travel notes:
1) Transportation:
① Round-trip international section and the Korean territory between the city - plane, air tickets by the leader of the unified custody.
② City tour - luxury bus.
③ Korea vehicles are more, faster, cross the street must take the underpass, such as there is no underpass, to walk according to the signal light, South Korea does not allow casual crossing the road.
2) Hotel:
①Prepared items: toothpaste, toothbrush, shampoo, bath soap, hotel slippers are not disposable slippers.
②The hotel does not provide boiled water, if necessary, you can ask the hotel (you need to tip the water delivery person, won 1000 won, or prepare your own electric cup 220 volts, plug for 2 round head). Drinks from the refrigerator are also available, but are more expensive, and the price list is at the room bar.
③If you make a phone call in the hotel, you can buy a magnetic card at the front desk, and there is a magnetic card phone on the first floor of the hotel. Magnetic card phones are cheaper in Korea, and in-room phones are more expensive. Chinese cell phones can not be used in Korea (except CDMA cell phones 00700 + 86 + 10 or cell phone number). Please pay attention to the TV in the hotel as there are paid and unpaid programs.
5.5 Before leaving the hotel, you have to pay for your personal expenses at the front desk in advance.
6Please be careful with the equipment and supplies in the hotel and keep the bathroom clean when taking a bath.
2) Meals and beverages:
The arrangement of the local reception agency shall prevail. Drinks and alcoholic beverages are not included in the meals of the tour group. If necessary, you can enjoy them at your own expense. In Korea, the eating habit is to serve rice and vegetables at the same time, and to eat vegetables and rice together.
3) Tourist Attractions:
Subject to the schedule. (Korea's climate: Seoul and Beijing temperature is about the same, Jeju Island is warmer than Seoul)
4) shopping:
1. money exchange: yuan, the dollar in South Korea can be exchanged for the use of the won, the yuan can only be exchanged at the airport bank, the foreign exchange bank, the Chaohyung Bank can be exchanged; the exchange of U.S. dollars is more convenient. The value of RMB is lower than that of USD (the daily rate varies).
2. Korean currency: coins: 10 won, 50 won, 100 won, 500 won, banknotes: 1000 won, 5000 won, 10000 won.
3. Where to shop:
Ginseng Store - Nationally Designated Koryo Ginseng Store.
Amethyst Specialty Store-Amethyst is a specialty of Korea and one of the world's top five gems.
Lotte Department Store- The largest department store in Seoul. It has a wide range of products and discount counters on the 11th floor.
Duty Free Shop: A collection of famous brand products from all over the world.
Namdaemun Market and Dongdaemun Market: larger wholesale night markets.
Itaewon Shopping Street: a large number of leather goods and imitation brand-name products.
6) Entertainment: at your own expense to see the Walker Hill large-scale performance and visit the Walker Hill CASINO (about RMB550)
7) property custody: please do not put the money on the tour bus, if the accompanying backpack is too small, you should be prepared for a small handbag, the available hotel safe deposit box, don't forget to pick up when you leave the store.
9) Free activities:
①Free time, to move in pairs, and take the business card of the hotel you are staying.
②Don't go to secluded and overly busy places alone, and don't go anywhere with strangers.
10) Korean manners and etiquette:
1. Korea is a hygienic country, so please don't spit and litter.
2.Korea is a country that honors the elders and loves the young, so please respect the elders and love the young in public *** places.
3. Please refrain from making a lot of noise while eating at restaurants.
4. When using various public **** facilities, please line up in order and do not crowd.
5. When bothering others, bend down and apologize.
Republic of Korea (The Republic of Korea)
Capital: Seoul
Area: 90,937 square kilometers
Form of government: Democratic **** and system
Difference from Beijing: +1 hour
International telephone code: 0082Population. 47 million people
Language: Korean
Special emphasis:
1. Korean food is mostly light, spicy and cold, which is quite different from Chinese food habits, so Chinese tourists can prepare some instant noodles and cookies in order to prevent discomfort;
2. Korean hotels are lower than Chinese hotels in terms of standard, and the facilities are also different, and usually not as opulent as Chinese hotels. Like Chinese hotels as magnificent lobby, but Korean hotels are clean, neat and tidy;
3, South Korean hotels need to charge for toothpaste, toothbrush, shampoo, bath soap and other supplies, slippers are not disposable slippers, if you need to, please bring your own supplies;
4, the use of Chinese yuan and U.S. dollars to the airport counter with a "two alternatives" can be exchanged for the "two alternatives" counter. Please note that you can change Korean currency with RMB or US dollars at the counter marked with "two alternatives" at the airport! Please refer to the above tour notice for other notes!
Don't forget to bring some snacks as well as toothbrushes and toothpaste
Koreans love kimchi, have spicy tastes, and have more barbecue and less oil and water. We are in South Korea for five days, in addition to a ginseng chicken soup and an abalone congee is quite appetizing, the rest of the meals, the table is always clear kimchi, seaweed, dried bean threads, bean sprouts four dishes of coleslaw, plus cabbage and meat barbecue or hot pot, and the Koreans do not like to put monosodium glutamate (MSG), so you will feel that the meal is bland and can not eat rice. I always hear Hong Kong or Guangdong people at the neighboring table exclaiming that they came to Korea to become a monk. At our table, we passed around snow peas, squash or meat floss that we had brought from home to eat.
Domestic hotels disposable toothbrushes, toothpaste are free, slightly more upscale hotels, you will also prepare shampoo and shower gel. Korean hotels for environmental considerations is not to provide free toothbrushes and toothpaste, but will be these things and razors, etc. in the room on the writing desk, and put a price list, you must look carefully, not careful, the next day, a bill will have to pay a lot of money. The two small bottles sitting next to the sink are often toner and moisturizer, not shampoo and body lotion like at home, which you will find inconvenient.
And the green button on the TV remote control in the room, you have to think before you press it, because it is a "show", specializing in adult movies, is charged, although only a hundred yuan, but the next morning on the bus in front of the crowd, the guide asked so-and-so room, please pay for the show, it would be embarrassing.
Some places can not camera, photography, be sure to comply
Korea has a number of places, due to political or heritage protection reasons, is not allowed to camera or photography, every to a site, the guide will generally remind a little, you must listen to clear, strict compliance. Like the Presidential Palace, Cheong Wa Dae, Cheon Ma Ka and other attractions are prohibited camera. We have a tourist in the car, luck, in the car to shoot the Presidential Palace exterior, immediately by the security personnel in civilian clothes found, get on the car to ask you to pin the image, and deducted the tour guide's documents, tossed a long time, the car's atmosphere is screwed up.
Buying in South Korea generally do not return the price
Seoul's Dongdaemun and Namdaemun is a big clothing market, but generally do not return the price, maybe you can try, but return the price is very small. Like some small souvenirs with national characteristics, the price is about the same in the stalls, small stores and duty-free stores, so you see fit to buy it, there is no need to compare more. But tobacco and alcohol, the airport duty-free store price is the cheapest, such as the Korean people love to smoke "THIS" brand cigarettes, the street sells 11,000 won, the duty-free store is only sold for 8,800 won.
Because of the different habits of bargaining, we also and the Korean guide had a very unpleasant. In Jeju, the guide persuaded us to go on a boat ride for 15,000 won per person (about 120 yuan) to give the driver a little more "financial". Because the guide's tone of voice is quite like "forced to ask for food", we agreed reluctantly, I asked the guide with a smile, "can be cheaper?" Unexpectedly, the guide was very angry, of course, this has to do with the quality of the guide. So if you don't want to add some, don't bargain, simply say no, don't talk to the guide more.
The guide took to the "public sale", should be careful to buy
South Korea compared to China, prices 5-10 times more expensive, so unless very unique, or carefully use your wallet in exchange for 2000 U.S. dollars. This is especially true of the "public sale bureaus" that tour guides take you to.
On our first day in South Korea, our local guide spoke at length about the history of South Korea, his own life, and the economy of South Korea to the development of China, with gags and enthusiasm. Unfortunately, the good times do not last long, the next morning, the guide took us to the "ginseng public market", the narrow public market is crowded with people from China, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, the promotional lady with fluent Chinese to introduce the medicinal value of Korean ginseng, and repeatedly emphasized that the complementary body needs a certain course of treatment, and strongly recommended us a box of 600 grams of Korean ginseng, we took a look at the labeling of the ginseng, and we saw a box of 600 grams of Korean ginseng. Taiji ginseng, we look at the price of 225 U.S. dollars, think of China's vast territory, producing Changbai Mountain ginseng, wild ginseng, red ginseng, why bother to turn the limited dollars on this ginseng, so not many buyers. Unexpectedly, the sudden change of the wind and clouds, the tour guide got on the car and picked up the microphone and said: "We take the group is to make money, not to drink the northwest wind." Said the front of a seat, and from then on we threw in the "ice kiln".
Additionally, like the guide to take to the amethyst processing plant in Seoul, Jeju's honey store and pearl museum, which are abundant in China, where the price is at least ten times that of the domestic.
Beware of the "sneak peeker"
The car, in addition to the tour guide is always followed by a "tour guide assistant", all the way to carry luggage, add food very attentive, but he always love to pose for photos when you take out their own camera sneak peeker, and at the end of the day, he took a stack of well-finished photos. He took a large stack of developed photos, one by one to you, said satisfied with please pay 40 yuan a, not satisfied with do not matter, taking into account their own "jade photo" in a foreign land is not good, the group only obediently pay, the group of an old lady in the way, gritted her teeth "subscription!
The first time I saw a picture of a woman in a car, she said, "I don't want to see her in the car.
One, food: Korea's most famous specialties are seam instant noodles, Myeongdong pork cutlet, Myeongdong dumplings, etc., which Myeongdong pork cutlet and Myeongdong dumplings, Japan and other foreign repeat customers are very much. In addition, Myeongdong Mom's restaurant offers delicious seafood soup and is located between ES QUIRE and SPR IS on Jungang-ro in Myeong-dong. Korean food has a lot of green onions, garlic, ginger and chili, so if you have trouble adapting, bring your own tasty snacks (e.g., squash, etc.). In Jeju Island must eat raw seafood, because the seafood there is absolutely no pollution.
Second, accommodation: in South Korea, the big hotels are using the reservation system, that is, must be booked in advance.
Third, call: hotels will increase the service charge, so it is best not to call in the room, the most economical way is to buy a phone card (available everywhere) to the card phone to play. South Korea is the world's first to promote CDMA mobile technology, the domestic CDMA133 cell phone opened international roaming and international long-distance, can be used directly in South Korea. If it is a GSM cell phone, it can not be used in Korea, you can go to China Mobile's business office to rent a Korean cell phone and bring it to use in advance. The phone calls within Korea are free of charge.
Transportation: In Seoul, there are many cabs, of which the black ones are the most expensive; and there is a yellow banner on the car with "FREE INTERNATIONAL" written on it, which means that there is a free international interpreter phone in the car, so that if you can't communicate with the driver, you can pick up the phone in the car with English, Mandarin and other language choices, and you will be able to make a call. If you can't communicate with the driver, you can pick up the car phone, which has English, Mandarin and other languages to choose from, and tell the interpreter your destination, and she'll tell the driver where it is.
Fifth, shopping: Seoul has a bustling underground commercial network. Many subway entrances and underground aisles lead to this amazing network of underground businesses where you can buy cheap items. However, the commercial district in Seoul that is most frequented by foreigners is Itaewon, which is adjacent to the main U.S. military post. Insadong, also known as Mary's Alley, is home to many antique and art stores. Namdaemun and Dongdaemun are Korea's largest general wholesale markets, with thousands of stores and stalls, and are known for their wide variety of daily goods and cheap prices. Between midnight and 4:00 a.m. every day, retailers from all over the country come here to buy goods, creating a busy wholesale night market. Seoul is also home to a large number of specialty markets, including the Kyungdong Market, which specializes in tonics and Dongdol (Korean medicine), and Asia's largest electronics market.