Discover places worth seeing โ from historic sites to mountain trails.
Historic sites & memorials
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In the Bukhansan foothills of Seongbuk-gu, Jeongneung is the tomb of Queen Sindeok, second wife of King Taejo, founder of the Joseon dynasty. Once a royal tomb in the heart of the capital, it was pushed out by political rivalry and neglectโฆ
Historic sites & memorials
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In Gongneung-dong, Nowon-gu, Seoul, next to the national athletes' training village, lie two Joseon royal tombs. Taereung belongs to Queen Munjeong, third consort of King Jungjong, and Gangneung to her son King Myeongjong and Queen Insun.โฆ
Fortresses
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Between the apartment blocks of Pungnap-dong in Songpa-gu runs a long, grassy ridge. It looks like an embankment, but it is a massive rammed-earth wall built by the Baekje kingdom on the bank of the Han River. As excavations have continuedโฆ
Historic sites & memorials
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A few minutes' drive from Gangnam's office towers, stone officials, warriors, horses and sheep stand in rows on grassy mounds among the pines. Heonilleung is the joint name of two royal tombs where King Taejong, the third ruler of Joseon,โฆ
Viewpoints
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On a cliff above the Han River in Heukseok-dong, Dongjak-gu, Hyosajeong takes its name from a pavilion built by No Han, a minister under King Sejong, in memory of his mother. The current building dates from 1993, but the spot was long praiโฆ
Churches & monasteries
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In Donam-dong, Seongbuk District, a royal temple sits on the slopes of Bugaksan between high-rise apartment blocks. Heungcheonsa was founded by King Taejo, the first ruler of the Joseon dynasty, to pray for the soul of his queen, Queen Sinโฆ
Zoos
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Seoul Grand Park lies in Gwacheon, Gyeonggi Province, but is run by the City of Seoul. It brings together Seoul Zoo, the largest zoo in Korea, a botanical garden, themed gardens and forest trails. The facilities are spread around a centralโฆ
Theme parks
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Seoul Land is an amusement park inside Seoul Grand Park, at the foot of Mt. Cheonggyesan in Gwacheon. It opened in May 1988, just before the Seoul Olympics, and is often described as Korea's first theme park. It is usually less crowded thaโฆ
Viewpoints
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Seoullo 7017 is a sky garden built on an old overpass that once carried cars across the tracks at Seoul Station. On a road 17 m above the ground, hundreds of round planters now line the walkway, with the railway and the old Seoul Station bโฆ
Gardens & parks
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Seoul Forest is a large park in Seongsu-dong, Seongdong-gu, where the Han River meets the Jungnangcheon stream. It opened on 18 June 2005 and covers about 1.16 million mยฒ, making it Seoul's third-largest park after World Cup Park and Olympโฆ
Museums
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At the end of the Deoksugung stone-wall road stands a red-brick facade with three round arches: the Seosomun main building of the Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA). The front is a 1928 courthouse, and behind it sit modern galleries for contemporaโฆ
Gardens & parks
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Seoul Botanic Park, opened in May 2019 in Magok, Gangseo-gu, combines a botanical garden with a public park. It covers 504,000 mยฒ, about the size of 70 football pitches, and most of it is a park you can walk around for free; only the greenโฆ
Gardens & parks
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Seoul Children's Grand Park in Neung-dong, Gwangjin District, opened on Children's Day in 1973. About 530,000 mยฒ of woods and lawns hold a zoo, a botanical garden, an amusement park and an open-air stage, and because entry to the park is fโฆ
Museums
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Right in front of Gyeonghuigung Palace, a short walk west of Gwanghwamun, the Seoul Museum of History traces more than 600 years of the city, from Joseon-era Hanyang to the boom years of modern Seoul, under one roof. Admission is free, andโฆ
Gardens & parks
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At the far south-western edge of Seoul, in Hang-dong in Guro-gu, Seoul's first city-run arboretum sits between apartment blocks and a railway line. Pureun Arboretum opened in 2013 on former rice fields, laid out around a reservoir, and groโฆ
Other
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Old film cameras, brass ornaments, everyday objects from modern Korean history, second-hand clothes and bags โ Seoul Folk Flea Market in Sinseol-dong, Dongdaemun-gu, lives up to the local saying that it has "everything except what it doesnโฆ
Museums
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A grey, 102-metre frigate is moored on the bank of Mangwon Hangang Park. Seoul Battleship Park brings together three retired navy vessels, the frigate ROKS Seoul, a Chamsuri-class patrol boat and a Dolgorae-class submarine, and lets you waโฆ
Nature
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On a seaside knoll in Seo-myeon, Seocheon, the Maryang-ri Camellia Forest is a rare camellia wood on Korea's west coast. Some 80 camellias, kept to 2โ3 m by the sea wind, cover the hill, and from the Dongbaekjeong pavilion on top you lookโฆ
Old towns & squares
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Seochon is an old Seoul neighbourhood between the western wall of Gyeongbokgung Palace and Inwangsan Mountain. Its name means "west village", and behind the palace wall you will find hanok alleys, a small market and houses where painters aโฆ
Viewpoints
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This cable car crosses 2.12 km of open sea between Jeongok Port in Seosin-myeon, Hwaseong, and Jebudo Island. Its name, Seohaerang, combines the characters for islet (seo), sea (hae) and wave (rang). At low tide endless mudflats stretch ouโฆ
Churches & monasteries
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Seokguram is a hermitage belonging to Bulguksa temple, halfway up Tohamsan mountain in Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang Province. Its artificial grotto, assembled stone by stone from granite in the Unified Silla period, houses a seated Buddha. Tโฆ
Coast & islands
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Seongmodo lies just 1.2 km across the water west of Ganghwa Island, and since the Seongmo Bridge opened in 2017 you can drive straight onto it. Bomunsa Temple on its seaside cliff, a Buddha carved under a rock "eyebrow", the Minmeoru mudflโฆ
Gardens & parks
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In the heart of Jamsil, beneath the soaring Lotte World Tower, lies a lake lined all the way round with cherry trees. Seokchon Lake Park, officially Songpa Naru Park, turns a lake left behind by an old branch of the Han River into a walkinโฆ
Historic sites & memorials
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Halfway up Inwangsan in Seoul, at the top of a steep flight of steps above the Guksadang shrine, two boulders 7โ8 m high stand shoulder to shoulder. People say they look like monks in long robes, so they were named Seonbawi, after seon, thโฆ