Korea has four distinct seasons: Spring, summer, autumn and winter. Spring is from March to May, and this is a warm season with the full blossom of many flowers including the famous cherry blossom. Summer is from June to August, hot and humid with a lot of rain. Autumn is from September to middle of November, and this is a cool time with the leaves falling that many people enjoy mountain climbing. Winter is from December to middle of March, cold and great for skiing.

Korea is well equipped with various means of transportation. Bus, subway, train, taxi and other transportation means are available for convenient use.

Korea is a very proud country worldwide. Together with a long history, there are numerous cultural relics and remains, and has many cutting edge technology of the contemporary time. For worldwide companies, it has Samsung, Hyundai, LG, among others, and the former president Kim Dae-joong won the Nobel Peace Price in 2000. In 2002, it hosted the World Cup competition jointly with Japan with a great success. Small but diligent and outstanding country, there is Korea.

Seoul is the capital of Korea with approximately 600 years of history. Seoul has the cluster of administrative institutions and many important facilities in the region, and for international students, there are English signboard in every turn of the streets.

Seoul has many cultural properties with old palaces, parks and theme parks around, as well as beautiful mountains and facilities for leports. For the popular cultural tour sites for international students, there are Bukguksa Temple, Gyeongbokgung Palace, Insa-dong Street, Korea Folk Village among others. Seoul City operates 'Seoul City Tour Bus' for international students who are craved for tour of Seoul. Price is very inexpensive and the tour hits most of importance places of Seoul with the interpretation service of the guide.

It has well developed subway lines where anyone can enjoy the easy and convenient lines. Subway lines are written both in Korean and English, and the voice message also has two languages as well. Bus is also convenient with numerous numbers of buses going on all directions in very short interval to take you to the proper places. If it is not suited for bus and subway, take on a taxi. If you tell the desired destination, the taxi will take you to the desired place with kindness.

The followings are the web-sites for your reference.

· Seoul City Hall : http://www.seoul.go.kr
· Seoul City Tour Bus : http://www.seoulcitytourbus.com
· Seoul Metropolitan Subway Corporation : http://www.seoulsubway.co.kr
· Korail : http ://www.korail.go.kr
· Seoul Bus Transportation Business Association : http://sbusasso.or.kr