Tag: South Korea 2024

About 10 minutes walk from Yeouido Hangang Park are two malls that are adjacent to each other and connected by an underground pass: we checked out The Hyundai Seoul first, a large and relatively new shopping mall that is top

Day 16 and our final full day in Seoul before we make our way to Incheon tomorrow morning. Our initial itinerary today was for us to visit Hangang River and the winter festivities in the area, including letting the kids

We finished our ice skating activity at the Seoul Plaza past 11AM, and it was about time to figure out lunch and also for the kids to find a place to sit down and rest their legs after all the

We received alerts on our mobile phones yesterday evening that Seoul was expecting heavy snowfall that was going to start late night. That was very welcomed news for us: because we’ve been in Seoul for a week now and only

We didn’t know quite what to expect at the Dongdaemun Design Plaza, but we’d certainly heard that the place is a must-stop spot when in Seoul.  We headed to the multi-purpose cultural complex in the early afternoon after our visit

We had a free day today after we cancelled our day trip to visit the Wondae-ri Birch Forest as the visitation was changed to Mt. Sorak in lieu of adverse weather. We kept the day’s activities light and easy. As

The missus did quite a bit of research to find tide timings at Tando Port, just so that we would be able to walk the paved surface that cuts across the mudflats to see the wind turbines, and also catch

We left the Irwol Botanical Garden at 11 AM, and drove for 45 minutes to reach the Tando Port Area. The Klook itinerary was for us to find lunch in the area first, but it seemed like our driver misunderstood

We had a relative long stretch of time to spend in Seoul during this trip. And as this was our second time to South Korea, we were deliberately trying to avoid doing similar things, even though the previous trip was

It was 3PM by the time we got back to Seoul city from our day trip of the DMZ. Too early for dinner, so we opted to be dropped off at Hongdae Station to explore the area a little bit

No visit to South Korea is complete without a visit to the DMZ, and I really looked forward to this day trip. However, since summer 2023, the Joint Security Area section of the DMZ has been closed to tourists. That

Our initial plan in the itinerary was to explore Gwanghwamun Square and Cheonggyecheon Stream, then finish the day at Dongdaemun. We were fairly tired though at this point, with each of us already having clocked around 18,000 steps. We also