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From arrival to the flight home

Your Korea trip checklist

Prepare your trip, learn the transport basics, plan your visits and handle shopping refunds. Follow each guide, tick off your progress or print a copy.

01 Set the foundations

Work through the first-trip planning guide ↗

Plan your arrival from Incheon ↗

Check your trip pace ↗

Check the planning order ↗

Compare airport trains, buses and taxis ↗

Open official KORAIL booking ↗

Prepare your travel apps ↗

Review document preparation ↗

02 Prepare your phone

Save and find places in NAVER Map ↗

Follow the app setup steps ↗

03 Get around Seoul

Choose a ticket and enter the subway ↗

Ride a Seoul bus step by step ↗

See how bus and subway transfers work ↗

04 Choose your visits

Understand palace and garden tickets ↗

Plan a first visit to Gyeongbokgung ↗

Pick a rainy-day option in Seoul ↗

05 Shop and get home

Compare immediate, downtown and airport refunds ↗

Follow the Incheon checked-luggage sequence ↗

Review your final checks ↗

Prepare purchases and baggage for departure ↗

Use the guides to complete each step

Start with flights, entry requirements and accommodation nights. Then work through your phone setup, transport, visits and departure shopping paperwork. The links below each item explain what to do; opening one does not tick its box.

A tick records your own progress. It does not validate a booking or confirm entry or refund eligibility. If an item does not apply, mark it after deciding why you do not need it. Every traveler in your party may have different document or payment requirements.

Keep personal documents somewhere secure

This checklist stores only which boxes you selected when you enable saving. It does not ask for names, passport details, addresses or reservation numbers. Keep those in your own secure travel record.

Saving works only in this browser on this device. Clearing browser data, using private browsing or moving to another device can remove or hide your progress. Print a copy if you want a backup. Turning off saving removes this site's saved checklist while keeping your current ticks until the page is closed.

For a fuller preparation sequence, read the first-trip planning guide.

Sources & further checks

Sources checked 6 September 2026. Examples and planning allowances are our assumptions, not live service information.