About Korea & Japan Practical Guide

Korea & Japan Practical Guide is the English section of howtopackbook.com, a Korean site about everyday money, public services and travel. It covers South Korea and Japan. We write for visitors who want clear, current answers without wading through outdated forum threads.

How the guides are made

Each guide is researched from official Korean sources, such as immigration, tax and transport operators' own pages, and lists those sources at the bottom with the month they were last checked. When we cannot confirm a detail on an official page, we leave it out rather than guess.

Data

Public holiday dates come from the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute's special-day data. Exchange rates are the European Central Bank's euro reference rates, delivered by the open-source Frankfurter API.

Corrections

Rules change. If something here is out of date, the official source linked on the page takes precedence.