About

Tips for Korea, with the receipts attached.

People say Korea isn’t always easy for travelers. An app wants a Korean phone number. A card that works everywhere else doesn’t go through. The map behaves differently from the one at home. None of that is a reason to stay away. It is a reason to know before you land.

Why this exists

This site collects the tips that actually work. Each answer is dated and sourced, and anything still unconfirmed is said out loud. Short answers, clear limits, no guessing dressed up as advice.

If we have nothing specific to say about a place or a question, we don’t make a page for it. An empty page with a confident title helps nobody.

Where an answer comes from

Every answer rests on evidence, and every piece of evidence says what kind it is. The label tells you how much weight it can carry.

Official source: The organisation responsible says so on its own page. We take the facts and put them in our own words.
Tested by founder: The founder did it and kept a dated capture.
Tested by a friend — unverified: A friend did it; the founder hasn’t repeated it. Shown with the date it happened and the date we checked.
community_reported, unverified: Someone else reported it. Useful, labelled, and not treated as proof.
Reddit report — signal only: Worth a look. Never enough to back a verdict on its own.
Secondary source: Guides and other sites can point us somewhere. They never back an answer alone.

“Tested” is reserved for the person who actually did it. Reading about something is not testing it, and the labels don’t pretend otherwise.

Dates, and what happens as they age

Each source shows the date it was checked, and when the thing was seen, if we know. A page’s Last verified date is the oldest of those dates. A page is only as fresh as its oldest source.

Checked. The answer shows its verdict, its sources and their dates.
Re-checking. Each answer has a re-check interval. Once it passes, the page stays up with a “Re-checking — last verified” banner while the evidence is looked at again.
Unknown. Past twice the interval, the verdict turns grey and reads Unknown until it is checked again. A stale yes is worse than an honest blank.

When an official source is found to have changed, the verdict changes then, not at the next scheduled check.

What “not confirmed” means

It means we looked and the evidence isn’t enough to say. It is not a polite no, and it is not a hopeful yes.

A detail inside an answer can be not confirmed, and it is labelled where it sits. A page whose main answer would be “not confirmed” isn’t published at all. Every question page also lists its limits, including what wasn’t tested.

How to read these labels

Verdict

Works Works in the conditions described.
Partly Some of it works and some doesn’t. The details say which.
Doesn’t work Doesn’t work in the conditions described.
Not confirmed No answer yet. The evidence isn’t enough to say.
Unknown The evidence is overdue for a re-check, so no answer is shown until it’s checked again.

Evidence

Confirmed source Solid outline. Backed by an official source or a test by the founder.
Tested by a friend — unverifiedcommunity_reported, unverified Dotted outline. A friend’s test or a community report, not checked independently.
Not confirmed Grey outline. No qualifying source yet. Unknown labels are grey too.

Each source shows its own date. Last verified is the oldest of those dates.

What this isn’t

Not medical or legal advice. Health pages help you find official contacts and language help. They don’t diagnose, treat or recommend medicine. The lodging guide gives checks, not a verdict on any property.
Not a promise. “Works” means works in the conditions described, on the dates shown. Read the dates and the sources.
Not finished. Corrections are reviewed before publication. A public reporting channel is not available yet.