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I’ve dabbled for years in the Korean community, tasting this and that, writing down my favorite places. Recently, however, I ran into a friend looking for a road map of sorts to the Korean restaurants along South Tacoma Way.

An adventurer at heart, he recently returned to the South Sound ready to explore a world away right in our neighborhood. With cash in his pocket, he wanted to feel, see, taste and hear first hand the Korean culture without buying a ticket for the 12-hour trip over the Pacific.

I scribbled out a treasure map for him on the Weekly Volcano Web site.