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South Korea

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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]], 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. Hitchhiking is easy here for foreigners, extremely easy if you are reasonably well dressed and clean shaven, but this is not essential. According to some hitchhikers, waiting times are minimal and there is less need to worry about position. The motorway service stations (휴게소, ''hyu-ge-so'') are easy to get lifts from (map [[Media: SouthkoreamotorwayservicesHW3.jpg.ogg]]), 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.
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