Pick a drama. We’ll get you to the scene.

Start with one show, not the whole country. Pick a drama you love and open its guide first. Read the labels before you build the day: Confirmed stops are named by two or more independent sources, Reported stops by one, and Fan-spotted stops are places Korean fan researchers matched to scenes, with their source linked. For a first trip, build your day around the Confirmed stops and treat the Fan-spotted ones as optional extras — that way the day still works even if one match turns out to be wrong.

Keep one day to one guide. Most guides cover a single neighborhood or town you can walk in a day, so resist the urge to chain five shows across five cities. Follow one guide stop by stop, leave gaps for getting lost, eating, and checking the map, and save the next guide for the next day. If you want a ready-made plan, the day-by-day routes are built from the same guides.

Getting around Seoul is mostly subway. Every guide names the nearest station and exit where a source confirms it, so you can navigate by station names rather than street addresses. Buy a T-money card at a convenience store or a subway station, top it up, and tap it when you board and when you get off — the same card works on the subway, city buses, and taxis, and tapping off is what earns the transfer discount.

For places beyond Seoul, take the train. KTX services link Seoul with Busan, Gyeongju, and other regions, so a coastal town or a historic city works as a day trip if you build the day around one place instead of three. Check times on the Korail timetable before you go; we link the timetable instead of republishing times.

Sort out maps before you fly. Install Naver Map and set it to English, and keep KakaoMap as a backup. Google Maps still does not give walking directions in Korea, so do not rely on it on foot. Every stop on this site links to Kakao Map and Naver Map, and the links open the place itself, or the area a source names when the exact spot is not pinned.

Pick a base where the guides cluster. Most of our guides cluster in Seoul, so first-timers usually base there and take day trips out. If the show you love lives somewhere else — Busan's coast, Jeju, the mountains of Gangwon — base near its cluster instead and walk from there. The regions page shows where the guides cluster, so you can pick a base that matches your list.

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