2022 FALL FOLIAGE KWAVE & DRAMA “9 NIGHT” KOREA LAND TOUR Get swept up in the KWAVE of K-Drama & K-Pop in this special tour! 9 Nights / 11 Days • 27 Meals (9 Breakfasts, 9 Lunches, 9 Dinners) Escorted from Honolulu • Includes English Speaking Local Guide September 29 – October 09, 2022 • Tour Manager: Mildred Kimura TOUR HIGHLIGHTS: Deoksugung Palace • Changing of the Guard Ceremony • Bukchon Hanok Village Seoul Herb Medicine Museum • Cheongju Early Printing Museum photo © Line Friends, BT21 Gongju National Museum • Naesosa Temple • Yangnim-dong History and Culture Village Suncheon Nagan Eupseong Folk Village • Hwagae Jangteo Market Dongpirang Wall Painting Village • Historic Park of Geoje POW Camp • Windy Hill GUARANTEED! Yongdu Park • Busan Tower • Busan Cinema Center • Bulguksa Temple • Tumuli Park Donggung Palace • Wolji Pond • Mungyeong Brewery • Trick Eye Museum • Ice Museum RISK FREE! Cancel for Any Reason by 07/01/22! No Penalties & No Cancellation Fees! K-POP HIGHLIGHTS: K-Style Hub • Buan Saemangeum Sea Dike • Yongin Everland Amusement Park BT21 Line Friends • Gangnam Street • SMTOWN K-DRAMA HIGHLIGHTS: COMPLETE Suncheon Drama Center • Mungyeongsaejae Open Set Studio PACKAGE! * SHOPPING HIGHLIGHTS: $3588 Insadong Antique Street • Tongyeong Central Market • Jagalchi Market • International Market INCLUDES ROUNDTRIP AIRFARE FROM Busan Shinsegae Store Centum City • COEX Mall • Gwangjang Market HONOLULU, 9 NIGHTS HOTEL, 27 MEALS, TIPS FOR LOCAL TOUR GUIDES AND BUS DRIVERS, ALL TAXES & FEES YOUR ESCORTED KOREA LAND TOUR INCLUDES: EARLY BOOKING Roundtrip Airfare from Honolulu • 27 Meals (9 Breakfasts, 9 Lunches, 9 Dinners) DISCOUNT PER PERSON 9 Nights “4 Star” Hotel Accommodations: Seoul (Total 4 Nights) – Lotte City Hotel Myeongdong $ Holiday Inn Gwangju (1 Night) • Stanford Hotel & Resorts Tongyeong (1 Night) SAVE 100 † Shilla Stay Haeundae Busan (2 Nights) • Gyeongju Lahan Hotels Gyeongju (1 Night) BOOK BY MAY 31, 2021 Tips for Local Tour Guides and Bus Drivers • All Taxes and Fees SAVE $75 BOOK BY JULY 30, 2021† Locally Owned & Operated Since 1985 — Mahalo Hawai‘i! 615 Piikoi Street, Suite 102 • Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96814 SAVE $50 593-0700 or Toll-Free 1-800-551-1226 BOOK BY SEPTEMBER 30, 2021† www.nonstop.travel 041921 Day 1: Thur, Sept 29 – HONOLULU. Depart Honolulu. of color that decorates the streets and walls of Dongpirang Wall Painting Village. With almost 400 years of history, Tongyeong Seoul Day 2: Fri, Sept 30 – SEOUL. Arrive Seoul, South Korea. After entry Incheon Central Market is popular to both locals and visitors alike. You can Airport Yongin formalities depart the airport. Dinner has been arranged for the group. find various things such as fresh seafood, dried fish, veggies, specialty LOTTE CITY HOTELS MYEONGDONG (2 Nights) (D) products, clothes, shoes, honey bread (kkul-bbang), and a lot more! The Historic Park of Geojedo, P.O.W Camp was built to hold prisoners Cheongju Day 3: Sat, Oct 01 – SEOUL. After breakfast, begin the day of touring Mungyeong during the Korean War. The camp was closed upon the signing of the at K-Style Hub, a paradise for Korean culture lovers. K-Style Hub Gongju 1953 armistice which ended the war. Remains of the war, such as tanks, consists of four floors related to K-Pop, K-Med, Traditional Culture, and trucks and other relics are on exhibit here. The camp was turned into ICT Technology. Of special interest to the K-Pop fan – You can take some a park in 1997 to ensure that the Korean War is not a forgotten war. souvenir photos with the K-pop stars in the Hallyu Experience Zone Windy Hill is a steep cliff side overlooking the sea, with a lush lawn Gyeongju with the help of some advanced and modern technologies – or You can Buan and a wooden crafted windmill at its edge. The location has been ring the bell of your idol house or imitate the trademark gesture of any made popular by several Korean dramas such as Carousel (2003, MBC) star or can show your love for the K-pop star. Then, at Deoksugung Gwangju Hadong and Eve’s Garden (2003, SBS). A special shabu shabu dinner is scheduled Busan Palace, watch the changing of the guard ceremony. Later, explore for tonight. SHILLA STAY HAEUNDAE BUSAN (2 Nights) (B, L, D) Bukchon Hanok Village, a residential area in Seoul with countless Suncheon Geojedo Tongyeong Island hanoks (traditional Korean houses). The traditional culture of Korea Day 7: Wed, Oct 05 – BUSAN. Begin the day at Yongdusan Park, is represented in Insadong Antique Street. Stores in Insadong a park located in Jung-gu, Busan, South Korea. The 120-meter-high specialize in a wide variety of goods including ceramics, earthenware, Busan Tower, a symbol of Busan, is located here. Yongdu means on museum walls, floors and ceilings come alive! Visitors are invited calligraphy materials, antique furniture, hanbok (traditional clothing), “dragon’s head” and “san” means “mountain.” The name is an allusion to to step inside Trick Eye paintings and installation and create their own hanji (traditional paper), traditional teas, souvenirs, cute accessories, and the similarity of the mountain park, which is said to resemble a dragon’s original stories. Next, explore the Ice Museum, located inside the Trick folk crafts. Lastly, visit the Seoul Herb Medicine Museum – which head. Next, explore Jagalchi Fish Market, Korea’s largest seafood Eye Museum. Explore the ice hotel, view the different ice sculptures, was established to preserve and pass on the history and knowledge of market. Visit the International Market shooting location of the take a slide down the 10 meter ice slide, and become an angel of the traditional Korean medicine. Visitors will be able to see everything from K-Drama “Gukje Sijang,” before touring the Busan Cinema Center, Ice Kingdom! Walk to the nearby BT21 Line Friends Store to shop for the herbs and plants used in traditional medicine, to antique medical which holds the Guinness World Record for the “longest cantilever your favorite characters: Koya, RJ, Shooky, Mang, Chimmy, Tata, Cooky, records, and tools. Enjoy a special bulgogi dinner. (B, L, D) roof” in the world. Another Guinness World Record holder is the and Van. Take a stroll on K-Pop and Gangnam Streets – noted for Busan Shinsegae Store Centum City (Department Store) which is being the location of more than half of Korean entertainment companies Day 4: Sun, Oct 02 – SEOUL – CHEONGJU – GONGJU – BUAN – registered as the largest department store in the world. It is the proud and the “birthplace” of many Korean K-Pop stars. Have your cameras GWANGJU. Begin the day at the Cheongju Early Printing landmark of Busan and a world-class shopping hub not to be missed. ready –if you’re lucky, you may see a star on their way into or out of a Museum, which has a copy of the ”Jikji,” the oldest book in the Tonight, “eat like a local” as you select live fish, clams, crabs and lobsters building! Also be on the look-out for the 18 “Gangnam Dol” (compound world printed with moveable metal type. Here, visitors can also learn from a seafood fish monger, and have your selection cooked at a word of ’Gangnam’ , ’idol,’ and ’doll”) that are symbolic images of famous about the history of the Korean printing technologies and culture. nearby restaurant. (B, L, D) K-Pop groups (BTS, B1A4, KARA, INFINITE, Miss A, SHINee, and many Gongju National Museum holds 10,000 artifacts including more!) printed on human-scale bear dolls located around the area. 19 national treasures and 3 treasures excavated in Daejeon and Day 8: Thur, Oct 06 – BUSAN – GYEONGJU. Bulguksa Temple, For K-Pop fans, SMTOWN is the place for you. A sprawling six-story Chungcheongnam-do areas, especially artifacts from Tomb of King one of Korea’s best known temples, is a testimony to both the skill of hub that offers everything a k-pop fan could want: a hologram theater, Muryeong. Next, stop at the Buan Saemangeum Sea Dike, the Silla architects and the depth of Buddhist faith at the time. Except for branded merchandise, vocal lessons, a photo studio, a cafe, etc. Finally, world’s longest man-made dike, measuring 33 kilometres – and the wooden buildings, all the stone bridges, stairways and pagodas you’ll have the chance to explore COEX Mall, the largest underground the location of BTS’s music video Save me. Finally, explore Naesosa are original. The temple, originally built in 535, was enlarged in 752. shopping mall in Asia. COEX Mall is generally considered to be one of Temple, whose name means “May anyone who comes here revives The numerous hills you see at Tumuli Park are actually tumuli, the best places to go for shopping. Shopaholics and fashionistas will their life.” Arrive in Gwangju. Enjoy some tteokgalbi (short rib patties) burial mounds for the elite of the Silla dynasty, which made the city appreciate the hundreds of clothing and accessories stores carrying for dinner tonight. HOLIDAY INN GWANGJU HOTEL (1 Night) (B, L, D) of Gyeongju its capital for about almost a thousand years, from 57 BC both domestic brands and international brands, as well as designer and to AD 935. Donggung Palace and Wolji Pond, formerly known as luxury brands. Return to the hotel for the evening. A special farewell Day 5: Mon, Oct 03 – GWANGJU – SUNCHEON – HADONG – Anapji, is an artificial pond in Gyeongju National Park, South Korea. It dinner tonight is samgyetang (ginseng chicken soup), which is thought TONGYEONG. Yangnim History and Culture Village is located in was constructed by order of King Munmu in 674 CE. Enjoy a samgyeopsal in eastern culture to replenish your qi, provide immune support, and the area where Western items and ideas first entered Gwangju over (grilled pork belly) for dinner.