Korea, explained from the source. Visas, entry and working in Korea, plus the festivals and events worth planning a trip around. Not press summaries: we read the official notices, the law and the public records ourselves, and we say what we could not verify.
Image generated with ChatGPT for illustration purposes. Paying more than the board says is one of the oldest complaints visitors bring home from Korea, and in 2026 the government changed the penalty for restaurants. Since September 1, an eatery, café or bakery that has no visible price list, or that takes more money than its own list shows, is closed for five days the first time inspectors confirm it. A repeat costs ten days and a third case twenty. Before the change, a first case ended with an order to fix the problem and nothing more. The step comes from a broader package announced on February 25 at a national tourism meeting. That plan also promised seasonal price caps declared in advance by hotels and guesthouses, faster license suspensions for taxi drivers who overcharge, and removal from gift-voucher schemes for businesses that are penalised. On the pages I checked on October 31, only the restaurant rule had actually been written into law; the others were still listed as plans....
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G-STAR 2026 Busan: Nov 19-22 Tickets, No On-Site Sales, Youth ID
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AI 일러스트 · AI-generated illustration (background scene). Card facts: gstar.or.kr · bexco.co.kr Image generated with Gemini 3.1 Flash Image (background scene) for illustration purposes.
G-STAR, Korea's biggest game show, takes over the BEXCO halls in Busan for four days this autumn, opening on a Thursday, November 19, 2026, and closing on the Sunday. The one fact that trips up visitors from abroad is simple: nobody sells tickets at the door. Every entry to the public BTC hall has to be booked online in advance, and the sale for a given day shuts at midnight the evening before, so a spontaneous Saturday visit is impossible once Friday is over.
An adult day ticket costs 18,000 won. The youth rate of 8,000 won covers visitors born in 2008 or later, but staff may ask for a student card, a youth card, a passport or another document that shows the birth date, and without it staff may refuse the discount or the entry itself. Each buyer can take at most two tickets per day. Disabled visitors, people of national merit and preschool children pay nothing; they pick up their pass from the help desk, which opens sixty minutes ahead of the show.
Opening time is 11:00 on the first day. Ticket checks end at 17:00 and the last entry is at 17:30. Before going in, every visitor swaps the booking for a wristband at an on-site desk, so allow time for that queue, especially on the weekend days, when the halls are at their busiest and the exchange desks see the longest lines of the four days. School groups of thirty or more can apply for a weekday visit, but the Korean and English pages give different application deadlines, as they also do for the preschool age limit and the helpline number.
Refunds follow the visit date, not the booking date. A cancellation within a week of booking is free, then the charge climbs to thirty percent in the final two days. The separate G-CON conference pass is a different product with its own prices, including a new premium tier, and it lets holders into the public hall from noon.
The complete guide on Hello Korea Playground lays out the ticket rules, the full cancellation table, each mismatch between the two language versions of the official page, conference pass prices, and the subway, bus and parking options for BEXCO. Every figure is dated and linked to the organizer's or the venue's own page, and the open questions the pages do not answer, such as the opening hour on the later days, are listed at the end so you know what to confirm by email first.
AI 일러스트 · AI-generated illustration (background scene, not the museum's real gallery). Card facts: museum.go.kr Image generated with Canva Magic Media (background scene) for illustration purposes. Last checked: 2026-10-26 · Sources: NMK viewing hours · NMK reservations and ticketing · Notice of closures, Aug 26, 2026 · Central Asia Gallery closure notice · Directions · Parking · National Museum of Korea, English home and exhibition list · Current exhibitions (Korean) · Upcoming special exhibitions (Korean) · Kunsthaus Zürich exhibition page (Korean) · What changed recently: The Korean Table closed on Sunday, October 25, after three free days; it no longer appears on the museum's current-exhibitions list. The next paid show is Birth of Modern Art from the Kunsthaus Zürich collection, November 27, 2026 to April 18, 2027, with early-bird tickets at 12,000 won on sale since October 13. The Dunhuang manuscripts opened in the Central Asia Gallery on October 23.
AI 일러스트 · AI-generated illustration (background scene). Card facts: hangeul.go.kr · much.go.kr · sejongpac.or.kr Image generated with Canva Magic Media (background scene) for illustration purposes. Last checked: 2026-10-21 (exhibition page, host museum and Sejong Story page opened again) · Sources: Ministry of Culture, October 6 press release on the ceremony · National Hangeul Museum, Hangul Hanmadang notice · National Hangeul Museum, closure notice · National Hangeul Museum, 2026 Year of Hangeul · 100th-anniversary exhibition page · National Museum of Korean Contemporary History · Sejong Center, Sejong Story visitor information · Ministry of the Interior, 2025 Hangul Day ceremony notice · Gwanghwamun Square event calendar · Korea AeroSpace Administration, 2026 calendar notice · What changed recently: the exhibition opened on October 2 and its page still gives February 9, 2027 as the last day, with the same hours and closure days; this update adds the page's rule that...
Image generated with Gemini 3.1 Flash Image for illustration purposes. Last checked: 2026-10-24 (KST) · Sources: AREX press release on the extra express runs, posted Oct 21, 2026 · AREX express timetable · AREX delay notice, Oct 14, 2026 · Incheon Airport Seoul late-night bus page · What changed recently: from Thursday, October 23 the non-stop express between Incheon Airport and Seoul Station runs 56 times a day instead of 52, with the extra trains placed between 11:00 and 18:00. AREX says the all-stop timetable was partly reset to fit them. Separately, AREX has warned since October 14 that all-stop trains may run late during a union work-to-rule action.
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