T10. BRING THOSE VOUCHERS TO KOREA

VOUCHERS

Another methods on saving a few ringgits is by bringing some vouchers or sale discount.
We are making it a habit of visiting KOREA PLAZA in KL before our trip.  Usually they have discount vouchers for tourist as well as some pamphlets that could be useful.  Some pamphlets version are different from the one found in Korea.  At least they are more tuned to English. 

Where is KOREA PLAZA?

Ground Floor, Menara Hap Seng,
Jalan P. Ramlee, 50250 Kuala Lumpur.
T: 603-2072 2515
F: 603-2072 3552
E:klkoreaplaza@gmail.com

http://www.visitkorea.com.my/korea-plaza-0

Operation hour:

Monday-Friday                 : 9am to 6pm

Every second & forth Saturday    : 10am-5pm

In March and September, Korea Plaza is open on the third Saturday, from 10am-5pm. 

What we found at KOREA PLAZA are these;.......

Tourism pamphlets and discount vouchers

Point of interest: Theme parks vouchers

We manage to find a 20% discount voucher in one of the pamphlets.  The normal entrance fees into EVERLAND is 44000 WON, minus 20% will be 35200 WON.  Isn't that a good deal?

http://www.everland.com/web/multi/english/everland/everland_guide/ticket/Tickets_and_Coupons.html

50% discount entrance fees into Gyeonggi English Village

In another pamphlet you can also find another discount vouchers, some as high as 50%, sometime repeating in another pamphlet, but you have nothing to loose, just bring them all. 

TRANSPORTATION

KTX TRAIN

We will need to travel from BUSAN to SEOUL and back by KTX train.  This is an inter-city fast train managed by KOREA RAILROAD (KORAIL), connecting all the cities such as Seoul, Busan, and Mokpo. They have Rail Pass that can be bought online based on 1-day, 3-day, 5-day, 7-day, or 10-day pass.  With this pass, you can board any KTX train, anywhere, anytime. 

I have checked the discount table for each day pass type, but unfortunately based on our itinerary, none of the day pass is suitable for us.

http://info.korail.com/2007/eng/ekr/ekr01000/w_ekr01100.jsp

In other words, here is the scenario;

Day 1: travel by KTX from BUSAN to SEOUL

Day 4: travel by KTX from SEOUL to BUSAN

If we buy a 3-day pass, it will not benefit us because the second time we travel will be the fourth day, we can't use the pass.

If we buy a 5-day pass, the price will be higher than buying a return KTX ticket.

So, the benefit for day pass will be for those heavy KTX train user, because there is no limit to number of travels and destination.  The only limit is the number of days......... 

Ahaa..........got and idea. 

If we can catch the 10:15 am KTX from Busan to Seoul, the ticket price will be 43200 WON.  If we miss this train, the next one, which is at 10:30 am is priced at 53300 WON.  A different of 10100 WON.

KTX schedule.  Aim for the 10:15am train.

How is this possible?  The 10:15 train (352) will reach Seoul at 13:38 while the 10:30 train (128) reach Seoul at 13:14.  About the same time ha..........for that, we will choose (or try our best) to get the train number 352 departing Busan at 10:15...... gambatte............

SUBWAYS

We normally rely on subways so much that we have improve our stamina a lot knowing that the stairs in the subway stations are mostly super deep and plenty. 

The subway systems is very much like Malaysian's LRT and Monorail.  You can buy T-money card that can be topped up in any convenient stores.

Still valid?

  

 I still have the T-money card from last visit,.........but whether or not this card still valid,............remain to be seen. I think it is still valid, just like our touch and go card, does it has validity period?  Don't think so.

Why I cannot find the other card? I have tried search for it but so far I can't find it.  I have no clue.

Hint:  If the store keeper doesn't understand 'top up', use the word REFILL.  Or better still, use sign language. 

Look how much I have improved my Korean....hehehe....