Press & Media

For press — what we went and checked

We put together the real prices of twenty treatments and workshops you can only get in Korea, in five languages, down to what to say in the salon chair. The prices were read off the booking pages themselves and are listed cheapest first. The same list is hard to find even in English.

We read the last trains ourselves too

We read the last train from all 11 K-pop concert venues off the operators' own published timetables. Departure times are easy to find anywhere; where those trains actually get to had been written down nowhere.

• 2 of them have a last train that ends outside Seoul — Goyang Sports Complex · Incheon Main Stadium
• 1 reach the centre on a weekday and have nothing running there at the weekend. Concerts are mostly at the weekend — KSPO DOME (Olympic Park Gymnastics Arena)
• For 12 festivals we verified the nearby restaurants and rooms against Google Places data. Festivals outside Seoul have almost no information about their surroundings in any language but Korean.

Method — read directly from the published timetables of Seoul Metro, Incheon Transit Corporation, AREX and the GTX-A operator. The airport line's is not a web page but a 28-page PDF attached to a notice. Each terminus is classed as centre, edge or outside Seoul by where it administratively sits and what it connects to.

What we could not confirm is written on the same page. Every source is published so anyone quoting this can go back to it.