This kind of stuff is just urban legends like people going about the best looking women are in Daegu etc etc...The fact of the matter is the best looking women are in Seoul where the TV/modeling/taent/high class prostitution jobs are. In terms of how Koreans treat you, the further out you are from Seoul the less likely people are going to speak English and the more likely they'll treat you like you're from another planet.
I've travelled all over Korea and honestly I can say that in my opinion Gangwon Do is like a different universe compared to other parts of Korea..... Yes the English isn't very high but the people are super nice and friendly........ Someone above mentioned outside of Seoul they were more likely to look at you like you were from another planer... That's just curiosity..... Seoul is up there as one of the most unfriendly places I've been.... I once had a guy try mow me down instead of adjusting his walking direction... He ended up standing on my toes as if we were doing some kind of dance all this because he chose to walk directly through me.....
Quote from: thejesusman on July 25, 2014, 09:11:24 amI've travelled all over Korea and honestly I can say that in my opinion Gangwon Do is like a different universe compared to other parts of Korea..... Yes the English isn't very high but the people are super nice and friendly........ Someone above mentioned outside of Seoul they were more likely to look at you like you were from another planer... That's just curiosity..... Seoul is up there as one of the most unfriendly places I've been.... I once had a guy try mow me down instead of adjusting his walking direction... He ended up standing on my toes as if we were doing some kind of dance all this because he chose to walk directly through me.....Does this apply to Chuncheon, too?
I don't know if there is any truth to this, but I have heard from various people that the people of Daegu are the most unwelcoming to foreigners.
The fact that half the population of Korea lives in greater Seoul because of the economic opportunities results in the half of the population in the rest of Korea being of a general lower quality in terms of intelligence/social skills etc... Statistically you'll probably have a much higher percentage of nutters too.