Seoul Taxis: What the Ride Should Cost, and How Not to Get Taken

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Tipping first, because everyone asks and it’s the easy one: you don’t tip in Korea. Not in taxis, not in restaurants, not anywhere. The meter says what it says, you pay that, you get out. Drivers will hand back money you try to leave behind.

Right. That’s settled.

Taxis are the actual thing to pay attention to — not because Seoul drivers are crooks, they mostly aren’t, but because it’s the one place where the price isn’t printed anywhere in advance and you can’t tell whether the number climbing on the meter is normal.

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Seoul Taxis: What the Ride Should Cost, and How Not to Get Taken