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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

South Korea in AI travel recommendations

country · overall rank 60 of 233 · rank 38 among country destinations

AI models put South Korea in their top 10 recommendations in 4.3% of answers, rank 60 overall. It does best when the question specifies season as fall: 14.5%, +10.2 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores −2.1 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend South Korea in their top 10, averaged model by model and then platform by platform, so each platform counts equally.

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By platform

PlatformScore
Claude2.9%
ChatGPT4.8%
Gemini5.2%
Grok4.4%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 53.6%
Claude Sonnet 52.0%
Claude Haiku 4.53.2%
GPT-5.6 Terra4.8%
GPT-5.6 Luna4.8%
Gemini 3.8 Flash5.2%
Grok 4.64.4%

Web search and effort

South Korea · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

South Korea with web search on and off, and at each model's lowest and normal effort setting.

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SettingSearch on / normal effortSearch off / lowest effort
Web search on vs off3.2%5.4%
Normal vs lowest effort4.3%4.3%

The baseline question, "Where should I go in 2027?", was asked 5 times of each model at each setting. South Korea made the top 10 at least once for 4 of those 28 model-and-setting combinations, and where it did, it came back in 40.0% of the repeats on average.

By kind of question

How much higher or lower the score is on questions that ask for each option, in percentage points against the overall score. Outlined cells are below the overall score.

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
FallSpringSummer
Change+10.2+1.6−3.5

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
SoloCoupleFamily
Change+3.0−2.8−4.3

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
WorkcationDigital NomadCulturalExoticRelaxation
Change+2.0+0.9−1.2−2.2−4.3

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Two weeksOne weekWeekend
Change+1.7−1.1−3.3

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
The plain questionWhere should I go?
Change+1.30.0

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
At most two connectionsRequires a flight
Change−0.1−2.2

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Mild WeatherCool Weather
Change−0.6−2.2

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Seoul80
South Korea29
Seoraksan National Park3
Daejeon2
Jeju Island2
Chungcheong Province1
Seoul and Jeju Island1

South Korea

Most questions went to each model at each setting only once, and a model read the answers, so a reading can be wrong. The methodology has the details.

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