hey, nett von euch zu hören. mit der HomeSweetHome site kann ich leider nichts anfangen, aber subwaymäßig gefallen mir zwei destinationen besonders: magok und soogmyung: erste weil nicht vorhanden und die zweite schon vom klang her ;) 2007-04-09 22:32:54.24 2007-04-09 22:32:54.129 1 Seoul Survivor {anchor:Seoul Survivor} Well, the first week is almost over. Getting around the city is easy using the T-money card for subway and bus. Being able to read 한굴 helps a lot. Most of the station names are written in English but sometimes you only find a map in Korean. A little more complicated is to find places of interest. I am not speaking of tourist attractions, which are well advertised. The more basic things, like super markets, book shops, where to eat. For most western countries you can easily use {link:Google Maps|http://maps.google.com/} to find an address. Here in Korea, I first had to find a map service I understand. The city of Seoul provides {link:Congnamul|http://asp.congnamul.com/seoul/english/map.jsp} which turns out to only work with Windows and only contains tourist places it seems. However, {link:Naver Maps|http://maps.naver.com/} seems to do the job. It allows a search for addresses (in Korean) or names of companies. As an example, I was looking for "Homever" (홈에버). It can be found using that name or you take a look at the {link:Homever homepage|http://www.homever.com}, select 서울 with one of the locations and use the address "서울 양천구 목동 919-2" as search term. Unfortunately there is just one conveniently located Homever near my office right now. But we are looking for another place to live anyway. Other interesting links: - {link:Korean Map Service overlayed on Google Earth|http://advance.sarang.net/~aero/map/} - {link:Seoul Subway Map|http://www.nsubway.co.kr/korea/seoul/seoulsubwaymapen.htm} 2007-04-07 09:46:19.04 2007-04-07 09:46:19.04