It starts with the beginning of the journey.
1. Korean Airlines aircraft and staff. Seats and screens are bigger. There is more legroom. And every seat has a USB port to plug in a device - even small domestic flights. Our international flight was not full so the staff booked passengers in thier seat-of-choice and well spread apart so that everyone could have a vacant seat next to them.
2. Easy airport transfers. They think about what people need and plan for it. From quick and easy baggage retrieval to portable wifi rental to transfers between international and domestic airport, via an amazingly comfortable dot-on-time limolusine bus. All payments are electronic so no need for money exchange / cash.
3. Helpful. Tho' language is a problem if you don't know Korean. People are helpful. They will walk with you to show you where to go. Or another patron will jump in to help translate. Or one staff member will ask a colleage to interpret our English (or the crazy, often epeleptic gestures we make).
4. Food. If you are a vegetarian life is gonna be more than tough. Say "No beef, no pork, no chicken, no fish, no shrimp, no meat. Only vegetables." In that order. Find a local to write it out in Korean. There is amazing vegetarian Korean food. Mainly side dishes, but so flavourful that it can be a main meal.
5. Flowers. They are everywhere. In gardens (including potted gardens). In parks. On shop counters. In large pots on sidewalks. On bridges. Even in pots hung on the side of the road.
I am here in autumn and can only imagine the riot of colors in summer.
More on my trip soon in another post.
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