Tuesday, January 8, 2013

For muslims who plan to visit South Korea

I would like to recommend these services as they are tailored for muslims

1. My travel planner is doing her job very well. I will recommend her for anybody who's visiting Seoul and a few other places in Korea without using tourist guide. Alas she has to be very patient with me :( Here's her website
http://www.muslimbackpackerseoul.com/

2. Check out some tourist guides here. They are Malaysian muslims who can help you throughout your travel. For example, with one of the tourist guides here, the package includes accomodation, meals and transportation, and it's not expensive!
https://www.facebook.com/seoulredcat and
http://budgettravel2korea.blogspot.com/p/tourist-guide.html

3. If we go by ourselves, we may want to stay in these guesthouses that give special care for muslim guests. They provide special service for muslims like qiblah marking and prayer mat. One of them take halal food order. Another can arrange for muslim tour guide.
http://malaysianguesthouseinseoul.blogspot.kr/
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g294197-d2625971-Reviews-Go_Korea_Guesthouse-Seoul.html and its fb page https://www.facebook.com/gokrgh

4. Read up (and save) some guides by muslim students in Korea, esp regarding dry food we may want to buy in convenient stores (bread, chocolates, instant noodles, drink, snacks,..). Other than that, be inspired with these guys as they are very creative in their da'wah..
http://amirkorea.org

5. Of course, do include Seoul Central Masjid in Itaewon which host Korea Islamic Centre in your visit list maybe upon your arrival if you are not using muslim tourist guides services. There is muslim info centre here and around this area are muslim businesses like travel agents, halal restaurants and halal grocery.

6. These are info related to muslim societies, Islamic centres and masajids throughout Korea (not limited to Seoul)
http://alfan-farizki.blogspot.com/2011/01/information-related-to-moslem-society.html
https://sites.google.com/site/islamdikorea/


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