Chinese girl travelling to South Korea in Jan08?

Hi, I am a Chinese girl, currently located in Melbourne. I am looking for a travel partner to South Korea, and looking at going sometime in January. My Korean language is poor but trying to improve so that can have some basic conversations. Any advice about travelling to Korean will be appreciated, and will also welcome if anyone can help with my Korean language if you are currently in Melbourne.
Thank you in advance ^__^

Don't forget to have a korean/english dictionary. A hand book. Something like a spanish/english dictionary. That way if you forget how to say a word in Korean you have the book to show you.

But good luck on finding a travel partner by the way. I hope you have fun in South Korea.

I would do it.

Sup, I'm korean. I cant travel with you but here are some tips. Seoul and Pusan are the two largest cities and Ja Joo Island is known as a tourist island. You can gamble their, horseback etc etc. Seoul and Pusan have great places to have fun and great things to see. Try to go to the 38th parallel, they have tours their. You can see the border of N. and S. korea.

one more tip: learn Hangeul (Korean writing) before you go, if you don't know it already. it's *really* easy to learn (there's a book, can't remember the name, but the title has 'in 40 minutes' in it, and my classmate said it was true, only took her 40 minutes!). i think most phrase books will have the alphabet and stuff in them (i know for sure lonely planet phrasebook does, that's what i learned with). since there are so many english words in korean (i-seu-keu-reem = icecream), then if you know how to sound out the korean words, and if you know how koreans pronounce english, you'll be able to read ALOT! since you're chinese, you're extra lucky, because i heard about 70% of the korean language comes from chinese, so there is alot of similarity, and once you know the korean pronunciation of the chinese sounds, you'll be able to guess alot of words. maybe not in conversation, but on signs n stuff. and there are chinese characters on anything old, plus on subway signs and stuff (with english, too).

if they realize you're not korean, and see you making an effort to learn korean, they will be really happy! (you might need to know how to say "I'm Chinese" in korean, because although alot of my asian friends swear they can tell other asians' ancestry just by looking, not everyone can. so some folks will assume you're korean.)

Hi, I am a Korean living in Seoul. Good to hear that you are coming to Korea pretty soon. I dont know what time of days you are going to stay here for. But as a Korean who knows what cities outside of Seoul are like, I highly recommend you to stay in Seoul the whole time. Yes, there can be difficult times communicating with others since almost no people speak English. If you need a guide or whatever, I will happily be the one for you. I am 24years old a ordinary Korean going to US next year for education. Basically I am free at the moment and I went to Austraila as well. You can email me at timester@hanmail.net for further discussion. Thank you^^;