Anyone ever been to South Korea?

I'm leaving tomorrow morning with my musical theatre group to participate in a festival in Gangneung, South Korea.

If anyone's been there, are there any quirks of staying there that I should watch out for?

It would also mean a lot if you could keep us in your thoughts or pray if you pray. Traveling can be stressful.

YAAAAAAAY! KOREA!!!!!!!!!

One thing that immediately comes to mind is that it's VERY polluted. I don't think it's quite as bad as New York, but most of the cars run on diesel, making the environment extremely bad.

Also, people smoke A LOT in Korea. Like...everywhere you go on the street. They smoke. (Especially in Seoul). Don't know so much about Gangneung, but it's a general trait most Korean (men) share.

Please don't make fun of our accents when we give silly attempts to speak "engurrish"

Have a great time! And hope the flight goes okay.

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Wow guys, thanks for replying.

Another thing I need to know about is travelers cheques.

or checks.

See? I don't even know how they're spelt. I just got 10 $20 bills in american dollars.... soo... I don't know the next step from that.

Just to show what's going down, this is a news article about what we're doing over there. In the pictures, I'm the girl with the bright red hair. The camera freaked out at the color, it doesn't really glow.

http://www.chattanoogasistercities.org/LatestNews/ChooChooKids.htm

this article is from october, I've lost weight since then. Eek.

Updated On: 7/25/05 at 08:06 PM

I just wanted to say that I'm now safely in Gangneung South Korea and thank you for all of your help. We're the only English speaking group here, but it's still awesome. we haven't slept in around 40 hours but we're still running around like the untamed beasts we Americans all are.

Man, that was a long trip.