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Autumn and winter in Korea: which kind of festival would you plan around?
From late autumn into winter, a lot of travellers start building trips around seasonal events rather than sights. The ones that come up again and again in travel threads: Lantern displays along Seoul's Cheonggyecheon str
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0 0K-Content Emotion Travel Begins at the Soul Spot Travel Information Center
In June, when summer is in full swing, an event will take place that once again vividly highlights Seoul, the center of K-content. That event is the 2025 K-Content Seoul Travel Week, held from June 28 to July 6. This eve
0 02023 Seoul Hallyu Travel Guide “Person:able Seoul”
When deciding to travel and choosing a destination, the most common next step is gathering information about the place. Travelers search for what kind of city it is, must-see attractions, foods, and shopping items. Thoug
0 0Seoul after midnight: what's actually open once the subway stops?
Seoul has a reputation as a city that never sleeps, but travellers often get caught out when the subway stops running around midnight. So what is really open late, and how do people get home? What people usually find ope
0 0Dior Seongsu concept store: what's showing and how to visit
Dior Seongsu is the brand's Seoul outpost in Seongsu-dong, run less like a standard boutique and more like a space that gets a full thematic overhaul each season. As of August 2026, it was showing creative director Jonat
0 1IFC Mall
IFC Mall is a large shopping mall spanning Basement Levels 1 to 3 of the Yeouido International Finance Center (IFC), where you can find global fashion brands all in one place, including clothing, cosmetics, and accessori
0 0Centre Pompidou Hanwha Seoul at 63 Square: a museum where the aquarium used to be
The aquarium that ran inside Seoul's 63 Building for nearly 39 years closed for good in June 2024, and that space has now been rebuilt into a brand-new museum: Centre Pompidou Hanwha, opening June 4, 2026, inside 63 Squa
0 0Mecenatpolis
Located near Hapjeong Station, Mecenatpolis is a high-rise mixed-use shopping complex with 34 stories above ground and 7 basement levels. Inside the apartment complex are Lotte Cinema, Homeplus, a variety of restaurants
0 0Myeongdong Cathedral and the night food alleys: a quiet stop before the street snacks
A few minutes off Myeongdong's main shopping street stands a red-brick Gothic building that feels like a different pace entirely: Myeongdong Cathedral, completed in 1898 as Korea's first Gothic-style brick church, offici
0 0Seoul Through the Lens of Hollywood Stars
The second installment of the sci-fi series Dune, Dune: Part Two, recently premiered in Korea and quickly became a major hit. With the film’s release, the Dune cast also came to Korea and drew considerable attention. Tim
0 0How to check if a Korean clinic is registered to treat foreign patients
When picking a dermatology clinic in Korea, it's easy to go by social media reviews or an agency's say-so. There's one official check you can add: whether the clinic is registered to attract foreign patients. What is it?
0 0Mangwon Hangang Park: how to picnic by the Han River without overplanning it
Mangwon Hangang Park is one of the string of riverside parks that line the Han through Seoul, on the Mapo-gu side near where Mangwon-dong meets the water. It's less monumental than the parks near Banpo or Yeouido, and th
0 0Shinsegae Department Store Myeongdong Main: how to work the duty-free floors and food hall
If you only have half a day and want a department store, a duty-free floor and a proper Korean food hall in one stop, Shinsegae's Myeongdong main building is the easy pick. It sits right by Myeongdong Station, and floors
0 0Bukchon Hanok Village in 2026: red-zone hours, fines and how to visit right
Bukchon Hanok Village is the hillside cluster of traditional hanok houses between Gyeongbokgung and Changdeokgung that turns up in almost every "things to do in Seoul" list — and, these days, in almost every overtourism
0 0Apgujeong Rodeo Street: how to shop Seoul's original luxury-fashion beauty district
Across the street from Galleria Department Store's Luxury Hall runs an L-shaped strip about 422 meters long: Apgujeong Rodeo Street. It got its name from Beverly Hills' Rodeo Drive, and it became Korea's first real fashi
0 0Seongsu Handmade Shoe Street
A short distance from Seongsu Station on Subway Line 2, Seongsu Handmade Shoe Street stands as Korea’s largest handmade shoe industry district. It is also the country’s biggest handmade shoe production center, with 70% o
0 0Hyundai Department Store Main Branch
Located in Apgujeong-dong, the center of fashion, Hyundai Department Store Main Branch is a shopping space made up of Korea’s top luxury brands. It brings together products from popular premium brands such as Mulberry, D
0 0Lotte World Tower, HUNTR/X’s Soul Spot
The piece begins with a line that calls HUNTR/X’s “Golden” to mind, then shifts right into the story of Lotte World Tower, the building that inspired HUNTR/X’s home. After a packed tour schedule, HUNTR/X returns to a hom
0 0Tamburins Seongsu: trying scent in a concrete garden
Tamburins Seongsu is the brand's third standalone flagship after Sinsa and Samcheong, built inside a Seongsu building stripped down to bare concrete framing (https://www.harpersbazaar.co.kr/article/82295). The theme is "
0 0Seoul in August: sightsee early, nap, go out at night. Enough for the heat?
A solo traveller who can only visit in mid-August shared a plan on the Tripadvisor Seoul forum: leave the hotel by 9, see as much as possible until 2, nap, then head out again in the evening for the city's nightlife. Wou
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