I arrived a couple of hours ago. Got a prepaid SIM card for my phone so I have data everywhere but wifi seems ubiquitous. Work also turned on roaming on my work phone.
I dressed pretty gender ambiguous going through airport security but that was worse than just presenting female with a male passport. I got some advice in another thread that I should just "suck it up" and pretend to be a male for a day. Suffice to say that didn't really work. My passport got immigration and TSA staring hard at it and looked at me and the picture like 10 times before she just initialed my boarding pass. I did set off the scanner at JFK and they had to do a pat down. Then I said, "I'm transgender" and the female screener told the guy at the checkpoint,"yeah I kinda figured that's what it was" and she did the pat down. So next time I'm just going straight presenting female and disclosing trans status to security screeners up front.
The FAs did not gender me until I spoke and it was "sir" a couple of times. Eventually I just got fed up and said, "sorry but I'm a woman. Please call me ma'am and don't call me sir, thank you!" and she apologized. One of the other FAs did not gender me at all, saying "excuse me" and not sir or ma'am.
Otherwise it was pretty good. Food was good, I had bibimbap and beef with mashed potatoes (2 meals). The upper deck of the A380 is nice, but coach isn't so bad either. They give you Bose headphones for the flight of you fly prestige or first but I brought my own. Got currency from the ATM but had to pay ₩4000 in fees plus $1 to navy federal CU (they say visa charges them that fee) but I get the fee reimbursed from the CU I think. Even with the fee the rate was 2.8% above the XE mid market rate. I will be using mostly credit cards here since mine doesn't have forex fees but I needed ₩ to pay Phil house.
I haven't flown internationally in like 8 years, so this is all new for me. The service on KAL direct from JFK is excellent, better than any domestic US airline I've been on.
Anyway any questions ask away but I'm merely following the trail blazed by Jenny and others...