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Gyeongbokgung Palace
Go through Gwanghwamun and let the courtyards set the pace. The palace is a different experience in daylight and after dark.
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The Seoul address book
Culture, green space and places to hear the last track of the night. Use each address as the start of a plan: see its neighbourhood, practical information and any linked events before setting off.
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MMCA Seoul
A contemporary art stop beside the palace, with enough space to make one exhibition the centre of your afternoon.
Free entry
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Leeum Museum of Art
Korean antiquities and contemporary ideas share a hillside address. Make the collection or a special exhibition your starting point.
Free entry
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Seoul Museum of Craft Art
Textiles, objects and the decisions behind them. A free museum that rewards looking closely, just off Anguk.
Free entry
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National Museum of Korea
Give a few galleries your full attention, then step outside. A free permanent collection and a generous setting beside Yongsan.
Free entry
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Dongdaemun Design Plaza
Follow the building’s curves, then see what is on inside. DDP turns a walk through Dongdaemun into an architectural detour.
Free entry
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Seoul Forest
Take a breather between Seongsu addresses. Trees, open paths and an easy reason to spend part of the day outside.
Free entry
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Cheonggyecheon Stream
Step below street level and follow the water. A free central-city walk that can be as short or as long as the afternoon allows.
Free entry
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Gwangjang Market
A food-alley stop with room to improvise. Look at what is cooking before deciding where to sit.
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Cakeshop
A basement address for an Itaewon night built around the music. Pick the actual party before picking your arrival time.
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Faust
A late-night Itaewon address with Faust and Tanzbar programmes. Let the lineup decide which evening belongs here.
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Bar Cham
A small hanok bar where Korean ingredients and spirits shape the cocktail list. An intimate finish to a Seochon day.
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MODECi
A fifth-floor Hongdae dance floor for selectors, visiting crews and nights that move between different electronic sounds.
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Charles H.
A hidden-door cocktail room beneath Four Seasons Seoul, for a seated evening around drinks inspired by travel and Korean ingredients.
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All That Jazz
An Itaewon live-jazz address where the band, the table and the set time shape an evening away from the club circuit.
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Boogie Woogie
A Gyeongnidan-gil jazz room with a proper performance calendar, cocktails and reservations in English as well as Korean.
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Volnost
An Itaewon electronic address with a first-floor listening bar and upstairs club sessions, shifting pace between weekday selectors and weekend parties.
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RING
A second-floor Itaewon club for following guest selectors and record-led electronic nights at a more intimate scale.
Free entry
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Seoul Museum of Art, Seosomun
Slip off Deoksugung’s stone-wall road into a museum afternoon. Seosomun makes a compact cultural pairing with the palace next door.
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Deoksugung Palace
Palace courtyards with downtown Seoul just beyond the wall. Keep time for the contrast between timber halls and stone façades.
Free entry
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Oil Tank Culture Park
Former oil tanks become rooms for culture at the edge of Maebongsan. A good change of scale from Seoul’s central museum circuit.
Free entry
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Namsangol Hanok Village
Traditional houses below Namsan, close enough to fold into a central Seoul afternoon. Walk the courtyards before heading back to Chungmuro.
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Jongmyo Shrine
A royal ritual landscape of long wooden halls and carefully ordered courtyards.
Free entry
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Jeongdok Library
A reading stop in Bukchon, with garden paths around the library buildings.