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[The King of Kwangju]

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But is it too late?

[rudyflyer]

I posted a thread about this, the new edition has so many errors its not funny.

KOK you too would find it funny they again had the World Cup Stadium where the baseball stadium is and not where it really is about 5KM away

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

Rule no. 1: if you're going to write an article about the mistakes in a publication, you better be sure there are none in your own.

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

[weatherman]

[just because]

Lonely planet for Korea is crap anyway.

[Dr. Buck]

The KNTO is a propaganda organization that fervently tries to dispell any bad or negative images of Korea. All countries want their images for tourism to look good, but some of the promotions are so whitewashed they are borderline lies.

Check out some of the tourist literature out there--the free maps and brochures--and you'll come across all kinds of superimposed images--some are weird--like this mob of Caucasian foriegners superimposed in front of the Chungcheongbukdo airport---a cheap, desperate bid to make themselves look like a cosmopolitan province.

Or Namhae Island's brochure: they have a photograph of a beach, (and I've been to every beach on the island multiple times) and the water in the photo is tropical water--crystal clear and perfect, a nice long saltwater flat of perfect beach sand. In reality, most beachs on the south coast have murky turquoise water and the beachs are covered with garbage thrown overboard by Korean fishermen.

The Lonely Planet writer was hand fed info by the KNTO--check out an old Herald article about it. So if you're looking for an objective view on Korea, don't buy the book.

[kangnamdragon]

[just because]

To be fair to the KNTO, you wouldn't paint a negative picture about your own country, you would give a positive one which is what they do.

I still think it is just as hopeless as Lonely Planet though.

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

[JacktheCat]

Sparkles*_*

[Pyongshin Sangja]

Boiled potatoes is similar to boiled sprats. Do you see the Irish and the Scottish up in arms about this? What are they supposed to say? Korean food is unlike anything you have ever had in your life? Get ready to be gastronomically transformed?

[mithridates]

There should be no problem with using the word 'similar', it's a reference to a more well-known food and nothing more. If they are going to claim influences than it has to be backed up though.
Estonian vorst is similar to German sausage...would this be bad for Estonia's reputation?

[chinook]

it's not like this only happens in Korea either. Every time the Lonely Planet for Scotland was reprinted, there would be a huge article about how they said nasty, untrue things about the country. You'd get the mayor of some horrible little town saying they were annoyed that Lonely Planet suggested that there was nothing good about the town. Ignoring the fact that there really was no good reason for a tourist to visit. The key point there being that it is different being a tourist in a country than living there. And it is the job of Lonely Planet to tell you what places are like from a tourist viewpoint.

the other thing i noticed was that they made it sound like the reprint was done at their special request. it was just a stand reprint of a newer addition.

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]