Templestay in Korea: A Night in a Working Monastery
What a Korean templestay involves: the two programme formats, the pre-dawn service, the formal monastic meal, and how to book one that runs in English.
Every guide tagged etiquette, for a trip to South Korea.
What a Korean templestay involves: the two programme formats, the pre-dawn service, the formal monastic meal, and how to book one that runs in English.
Naked bathing by gender, shared heated rooms in issued pyjamas, a snack bar, a reading room and permission to sleep there. Here is the order of operations.
A traveller guide to Korean food: barbecue, stews, street food, free banchan side dishes, what beginners should order, drinking culture and table manners.
The Korean manners that matter to visitors: two hands, shoes off, chopstick rules, pouring for others, quiet trains, and why nobody expects a tip.