Seoul — Sights
A palace wall, and a glass tower right behind it
- Centre Pompidou Hanwha — Paris Pompidou’s Seoul outpost in the 63 Building annex
- Seoul Museum of Craft Art — On the old girls’ school grounds, craft you can touch
- MMCA Seoul — Contemporary art and an open yard next to the palace
- Tongin Market — Seochon market where you pick dishes with coins
- Gyeongui Line Forest Park (Yeontral Park) — A walking strip on the old railway bed
- Mangwon Market — A neighborhood market where chicken-gangjeong lines form
- Seoul Botanic Park — Glass greenhouse and lake park, fine even in rain
- Ttukseom Hangang Park — Sunset picnics behind the Seongsu cafes
- Nodeul Island — A river island with a bookshop and a live house
- Kansong Art Museum — A private museum in the old Bohwagak house
- National Hangeul Museum — How Hangeul came to be, on display
- Yun Dong-ju Literature Museum — A small museum made from old water tanks
- Seoul Museum of Art (Seosomun Main Branch) — A museum behind an old courthouse facade
- Seokpajeong Seoul Museum of Art — A regent's villa garden and a modern art museum on one hill
- Seoul Anglican Cathedral — A red-brick Romanesque church by City Hall
- Seoul City Wall Museum — Six centuries of the Seoul wall, free
- Seoul Chaekbogo — A used-book maze of dozens of shops
- Seoul Metropolitan Library — A library inside the old City Hall building
- Gyeongbokgung Palace — The main Joseon palace, with Mt. Bugaksan behind it
- Changdeokgung Palace and Huwon Garden — A palace laid into the hillside, with its secret garden
- Deoksugung Palace — A palace squeezed between towers, with a Western-style hall
- Jongmyo Shrine — The long-roofed shrine for Joseon kings and queens
- Bukchon Hanok Village — A hillside of hanok roofs above the palaces
- Insadong — A lane of teahouses and craft shops
- Ikseon-dong Hanok Alley — Café- and restaurant-filled alleys of small hanok
- N Seoul Tower, Namsan — Seoul at your feet from a hilltop in the middle of the city
- Myeongdong Shopping Street — Beauty shops by day, street-food stalls at night
- Hongdae — Street performances and young shops, running late
- Seongsu-dong — Cafés and pop-ups inside old factory buildings
- Gwangjang Market — A covered market of bindaetteok and tiny gimbap stalls
- Namdaemun Market — A 600-year-old market with noodle and braised fish lanes
- Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) — Zaha Hadid's curved silver building
- Cheonggyecheon Stream — A downtown stream path between office towers
- National Museum of Korea — A huge free museum with gold crowns and a famous Buddha
- War Memorial of Korea — A war museum with real aircraft and tanks on its lawn
- Leeum Museum of Art — Old Korean art and contemporary art in two buildings
- Seodaemun Prison History Hall — The old prison where independence fighters were held
- Banpo Moonlight Rainbow Fountain — Water jets cascading off a bridge, lit in rainbow colours
- Yeouido Hangang Park — The Han River park for picnics, delivery chicken and instant ramen
- Seoul Forest — A large city forest park with deer
- Seoullo 7017 Skygarden — An old overpass turned into an elevated garden walk
- Lotte World Tower, Seoul Sky — Observation deck on a 555-metre tower, with a glass floor
- Starfield Library, COEX — A library inside a mall, with shelves 13 metres tall
- Jogyesa Temple — A downtown temple strung with lanterns, head of the Jogye Order
- Naksan Park and Seoul City Wall — A hill beside the old fortress wall with a sunset view
- Bukhansan, Baegundae Peak — Granite peaks on Seoul's north edge with a city view from the top
- Suwon Hwaseong Fortress — An 18th-century fortress an hour from Seoul by subway
- Imjingak and the DMZ — A day at the armistice line with Freedom Bridge and an observatory
- Seonyudo Park — A Han River island where vines grow through old waterworks concrete
- Oil Tank Culture Park — Old oil-depot tanks turned into stages and galleries
- Seoul Museum of History — A free museum that shows how Seoul changed, with scale models
- Buk-Seoul Museum of Art — SeMA's biggest branch, beside a park, made for a slow visit
- Photography Seoul Museum of Art — A public museum devoted to photography, opened in 2025
- Nam-Seoul Museum of Art — Sculpture and shows in a red-brick former consulate by Sadang Stn
- Donuimun History Museum — A small neighbourhood museum on the way to Gyeonghuigung
- Bongeunsa Temple — A city temple that goes quiet across from COEX