About TripSem

Who makes it

Hello — I'm the dad of "Hotteok", our baby who is about to be born.

Counting them up, I've made 26 trips to 22 cities: Nagoya, Hanoi, Nha Trang, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh, Penang, Kuching, Kota Kinabalu, Budapest, Prague, Frankfurt, Moscow, Vladivostok, Minsk, Tbilisi, Kazbegi, Istanbul, Abu Dhabi, Cairo, Los Angeles and Detroit. I went to Malaysia seven times, like collecting stamps — not because I love the country in particular; it just happened that way.

Some trips were solo, some were for work with a performance team. On a one-week work trip I'd get maybe five days to wander, and I took every gap to go outside, gear and all. Packing, budgeting and working out phone costs abroad slowly turned into my specialty.

Right now I can't leave home — the little one is arriving soon. So I'm building this instead. Honestly, it's mostly to scratch my own travel itch: if I can't fly, I can at least punch numbers. And if even one person gets a clear answer from them, it feels a bit like we're on the same plane.

The Korean site helps Koreans going abroad. This English edition turns it around: the same idea — answer number questions with numbers — for people coming to Korea.

Data rules

• Every calculator shows its data source and the date it was checked.
• Where no official number exists, the result is marked as an estimate.
• How each result is calculated, and what it assumes, is written on the page.
• Affiliate links are labeled "affiliate", with a note right before them. Buying through one does not change the price.

Contact

Spotted a wrong fare or have an idea? Email [email protected] — a link to the source helps me fix it fast.