Trablind is an independent, English-language travel guide to South Korea — built for first-time inbound visitors planning a trip to Seoul and beyond. We turn the overwhelming work of trip planning into clear, specific, up-to-date answers: where to go, when to visit, what to eat, how to get around, and where to stay.
What you’ll find here
Our writing splits into two kinds of guide, so you always know whether you’re reading something timeless or time-sensitive:
- Evergreen guides — deep, practical guides to itineraries and logistics, neighborhoods, food and drink, K-culture and things to do, where to stay, and day trips beyond Seoul. These are the pages you plan a whole trip around.
- News & updates — short, timely pieces on the things that change: entry requirements, festival dates, new openings, and seasonal forecasts. When the rules or the calendar shift, we update.
How we work
Every guide is researched and written to answer a real traveler’s question, not to fill a page. We lead with a direct answer, back it with specifics — prices, travel times, opening seasons, the exact station you need — and cite authoritative sources where it matters. Each guide carries a Last Updated date, and we revisit seasonal and fast-moving pages before they go stale rather than letting them drift. If something is genuinely uncertain, we say so.
Who writes Trablind
Trablind is written by Stay Cat, a Korea travel creator born and raised in the country, with an audience of more than 40,000 across languages. Every guide comes from native, on-the-ground knowledge rather than secondhand research. You can find more from Stay Cat at staycat.kr or on Threads.
How we use AI tools
We use AI tools to help research, draft and translate our guides into seven languages. Each article is built on the local knowledge above and on the official sources it cites (VisitKorea, city governments, Korail, airport operators, festival organizers), and it has to pass our editorial checks — length, sourcing, originality and duplicate-photo checks — before it goes live. When facts change, we update the page and its Last Updated date. Found a mistake? Tell us through the contact page.
A note on how we fund the site
Trablind is free to read. Some of our links to hotels, tours, and transport are affiliate links, which means we may earn a small commission if you book through them — at no extra cost to you. This never changes what we recommend: our suggestions are editorial, chosen because they’re genuinely useful for the trip we’re describing. Individual guides carry a disclosure where these links appear. See our Privacy Policy for how advertising and cookies work, and our Terms of Use.
Get in touch
Spotted something out of date, or planning a trip and stuck on a detail? We’d genuinely like to hear about it — reach us through our contact page. Reader corrections make the guides better for everyone who comes after you.