<p class="ingestion featured-caption">Bradley at a national park in South Korea.Courtesy of Hallie Bradley</p><ul class="summary-list"><li>Hallie Bradley has been living in Seoul, South Korea, for 15 years. </li><li>Bradley says she's seen tourists refuse to remove their shoes and act obnoxiously on trains. </li></ul><p><em>This as-told-to story is based on a conversation with Hallie Bradley, the 39-year-old founder of the travel site <a href="https://thesoulofseoul.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Soul of Seoul</a>. She shares what she's learned after living in Seoul, South Korea since 2006. It's been edited for length and clarity. </em></p><p>South Korea is home to more than 51.7 million people. It's a popular travel destination in Asia — with 17.5 million tourists in 2019— and in recent years, its pop culture scene has taken the world by storm, from <a href="https://www.insider.com/genz-kpop-fansign-video-call-idols-korea-p1harmony-dino-nct-2023-4">K-pop</a>, to <a href="https://www.insider.com/netflixs-top-6-korean-dramas-that-you-have-to-watch-2023-2#-1">K-dramas</a>, and even <a href="https://www.insider.com/favorite-contestants-on-netflix-physical-100-2023-2" rel>K-survival shows</a>. <em> </em></p><p>As of 2022, <a href="https://www.moj.go.kr/moj/2412/subview.do#:~:text=%EC%97%B0%EB%8F%84%EB%B3%84%20%EC%9E%A5%EB%8B%A8%EA%B8%B0%20%EC%B2%B4%EB%A5%98%EC%99%B8%EA%B5%AD%EC%9D%B8%20%ED%98%84%ED%99%A9('18~'22,%EC%A0%84%EB%85%84%20%EB%8C%80%EB%B9%84%2014.8%25%20%EC%A6%9D%EA%B0%80%ED%95%98%EC%98%80%EC%8A%B5%EB%8B%88%EB%8B%A4." target="_blank" rel="noopener">more than 150,000 Americans live in the country</a>, and I'm one of them. I'm from Ohio, and moved to Seoul in the autumn of 2006. I ended up in Seoul as an English Sign Language teacher on a one-year contract with a private school. After my contract ended, I backpacked for a month and returned to South Korea. I eventually met my husband — who's a South Korean — and have lived here ever since.</p><p>After living in South Korea for 17 years, I've noticed tourists making the same mistakes while traveling around the country. Here are seven of the most common mistakes travelers make whenever they visit.</p>