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riding in South Korea

whats this i hear about not being able to ride your bike in south korea? Anybody got any info?
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Last year in juli I arrived to South Korea with ferry from Russia - on a Suzuki DL 650 V Strom.
After several hours Thinking, the costums want 2000 US $ in deposit for riding 3 weeks in the country - so I just put the bike on a truck to Busan and shipped it to Vancouver.
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I looked into this early this year. I called everyone I could think of in Australia, hassled anyone I had contact details for in Korea, searched the net and enlisted a friend living in Korea. And the result was that no-one knew.

The most useful thing I found was the web forum of the Korean customs department. Suprisingly this seems to be the main way they receive and answer questions.

However if I decided to do it I'd just turn up, preferably with a few phone numbers of people high up in the customs department, and see if I could talk my way through.

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Except for German registered bikes and few other`s countries registered bikes bureaucracie (customs) and riding in Korea should not be a problem.

Traffic is quite dangerous though, fast cars, tendence to ignore traffic rules, particularly traffic lights. Do not rely on drivers driving as you would expect, even though they often are reliable...

I posted a few things about riding in Korea. Search for my name.

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