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It has a land border with [[North Korea]], but travel there is restricted. There are ferry services from Busan to [[Japan]], and from [[Seoul]] to [[China]], and from [[Donghae]] and [[Sokcho]] to [[Russia]].

Koreans are generally friendly, honest, and generous people who often drive big cars which are usually empty. Hitch hiking Hitchhiking is easy here for foreigners , extremely easy if you are reasonably well dressed and clean shaven, but this is not essential. I found I generally waited 15 minutes or less. The motorway service stations (hyu-gye-so) are easy According to get lifts from, they often have tourist information centres with free road mapssome hitchhikers, free internet access and excellent cheap food. Tollgates waiting times are also good places to hitch. Technically you shouldn't stand on the motorway side of a tollgate, but cars often pull up here anyway, minimal and the tollgate staff rarely object there is less need to you standing on the motorway side of the tollgateworry about position. Sometimes tollgate staff may even help you by asking drivers their destination, and asking them to give you lifts if they are going your way!

The motorway service stations (휴게소, ''hyu-ge-so'') are easy to get lifts from, they often have tourist information centres with free roadmaps, free internet access and excellent cheap food. Tollgates are also good places to hitch. Technically a hitchhiker shouldn't stand on the motorway side of a tollgate, but cars often pull up here anyway, and the tollgate staff rarely object to you standing on the motorway side of the tollgate. Sometimes tollgate staff may even help you by asking drivers their destination, and asking them to give you lifts if they are going your way! Write hitchiking signs in ''Hangul '' ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangeul Korean alphabet]); place names on road signs are generally in Hangul and English, so you can copy the ''Hangul '' from road signs. A map in Hangul is useful, and one in English if you can't read Korean.

| Motorway service station || hyu-gyege-so

If you are == Experiences ==* [http://marcandoelpolo.com/viajar-a girl-dedo-corea-del-sur/ Information, you should be careful hitchiking tips and personal experiences of hitch-hiking in South Korea. People may think you are a Russian prostitute A 980 km journey on 11 vehicles (only in spanish)] experience summer 2018: Apart from Daegu which was impossible to get out of (trying to go to Gyeongju and the tollgate staff kicked me out of the tollgate and threatened to call the cops) all other areas were easy to hitchhike around, waiting time was around 10 minutes on average (there is apparently solo man) when the spot was good. Most drivers who picked me up spoke a large number bit of them english and were very excited to meet a foreigner.Most were single men but once a woman stopped as well. Overall easy country to hitchhike through but being white definitely helped. Appearance matters A LOT in Korea. I always had a sign in Hangeul (the countrystaff at petrol stations helped me write it everytime). You Koreans are very friendly although many do not understand the concept of hitchhiking and people looking at you will probably have to explain your driver why not understand what you are standing on doing. Best advice here is to '''have a sign in hangeul, look clean and make sure the side of the highwayspot is safe for them to pull over.''' '''contrary to what this page says I did not find that Koreans were very risk-taking, I had to change spots a lot because no one would stop if it was bad.'''   == Maps ==Google Map doesn't work much here. Just install KAKO map and because to start hitchhiking just point out of city in the shortage of English speakersmap, it may be extremely hard for gives you the best way to do thisgo by bus or metro and then you can enjoy hitchhiking. Toll gates are very good :) Naver Maps and Daum Maps are the most detailed maps of Korea, but an offline map like Maps.Me can really help out as well. == Nomadwiki & Trashwiki == {{nomadwiki}}