Top 8 places to visit on rainy days in Seoul
Seoul, with a population of over 10 million, is full of colorful attractions that you can enjoy even on rainy days. In addition to popular culture and art performances representing K-POP, the Byeolmadang Library, a place of book culture where readers and authors meet, and a movie theater complex leading the way in video culture are nearby, so you can always use them conveniently.
Gangnam Station Underground Shopping Center
A shopping street where you can easily find the latest fashion products and new products.
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Gangnam Station Underground Shopping Center, where fashion and youth live, is a shopping paradise where you can easily buy a variety of items such as famous clothing, shoes, and accessories at more than 200 stores. Gangnam Station, which is constantly visited by young people, is the largest commercial district in Seoul with a daily floating population of over 600,000, and is home to many domestic and foreign brand shops and street shops. The main customer base changes depending on the time of day. Male and female students, who are the largest customers during the day, look for new products and unique accessories. During peak evening hours, office workers and couples visit here to enjoy window shopping and affordable shopping.
Stop by Herb Plaza, where you can take a break from shopping, and enjoy a cultural performance. To easily find the store you want, we recommend checking the directions at the subway entrance in advance.
Operating hours: 365 days a year
Phone: +82 (0)2-5531-898
Seoul Trick Eye Museum
A place where a fantastic encounter between works of art and augmented reality takes place.
Trick Eye Museum is a new concept entertainment space that is the first art exhibition hall to apply augmented reality technology to works of art, turning visitors into the protagonists of the paintings. The work on the wall, floor, or ceiling moves as if it were actually alive, and you get the experience of being inside the work. Trick Eye is a traditional art technique that creates an optical illusion to make a flat picture appear three-dimensional.
After installing the XR MUSEUM app, if you take a photo or video from an appropriate distance from the work, an amazing augmented reality effect will appear. You can experience a variety of contents in 6 theme zones.
You can create a video where you become the main character in a world-famous painting, and experience an unknown world that only existed in mythology with the effect of swimming in the sea and realistic sounds. Enjoy a fantastic world of augmented reality that can be enjoyed by people of all ages.
Operating hours: Daily 9:00 AM - 9:00 PM
Phone: +82 (0)2-3144-6300
Seoul Botanical Garden
A colorful garden in a city park
Seoul Botanical Garden is a famous place where you can comfortably encounter colorful wild plants and plants that can only be found in overseas cities in your daily life in the city. It's the size of 70 soccer fields, so it's like a park containing a botanical garden. It consists of four themed spaces: Theme Garden, Open Forest, Lake Garden, and Wetland Garden. Among the uniquely designed theme parks, the Theme Garden, where you can see traditional and unique gardens, the Plant Culture Center, and the Magok Cultural Center are the most popular.
Special events and festivals are held each season, and the summer tour, which allows you to experience hard-to-find aquatic plants such as water lilies, cattails, and water lettuce, is receiving a lot of response as an experiential program. Take a leisurely walk around the lake and stop by a restaurant with a night view where LED lights create a rainbow-colored spectacle.
Operating hours: 9:30 AM - 6:00 PM daily, closed on Mondays
Phone: +82 (0)2-2104-9716
Byeolmadang Library
A resting place for books, culture and art in the city center
The Starfield Library at COEX Mall is an open cultural space for reading, relaxation, and meeting. The 13m high central plaza has a corner for foreign books and over 70,000 books in various fields, including humanities, economics, hobbies, and travel, and also hosts a celebrity book exhibition. It is a place where anyone can freely enjoy reading and lectures by famous figures in literature and art, talk concerts, and various exhibitions for free.
You can drink coffee, read books, and enjoy DVDs at the coffee shop inside the library. There is also a space where families can bring their children to rest and play together. The novel idea of providing a comfortable resting place at COEX Mall gave birth to this attraction. Feel the relaxation, happiness and artistic inspiration of life in a calm and peaceful atmosphere.
Operating hours: 10:30 AM - 10:00 PM daily
Phone: +82 (0)2-6002-3031
G-Flex
Multi-game flex to blow away your stress
G-Plex is the hottest multiplex game room in Sinchon. The three-story building, stylishly decorated in black and yellow, has a variety of entertainment facilities throughout, making it a great place to relieve stress. On the first floor, you can play nostalgic games such as basketball, whack-a-mole, claw machine, and punch, and when you go up to the second floor, you can sit and enjoy games such as hidden catch, find the difference, and nostalgic bobble. Then go up to the third floor and enjoy dynamic rhythm games, Tekken, shooting, racing, and darts with your friends.
Unlike other places, it has glass that allows you to see the outside, so you don't feel stuffy, and the indoor air is also pleasant. After playing games with your friends to your heart's content, enjoy a cup of coffee in the rooftop garden.
Operating hours: 9:00 AM - 2:00 AM daily
Phone: +82 (0)2-6253-3357
CGV Cinema
One-stop entertainment complex movie theater full of new things
CGV Cinema is a representative multiplex cinema visited not only by movie enthusiasts but also by families, friends, and lovers. Multiplex theaters, where multiple screens are gathered in one building, have greatly expanded the size of the film market to the point where they can be said to have changed the film market itself. It is not just a place to watch movies, but is developing into a comprehensive lifestyle and culture consumption space in connection with other industries. With as many as 3,000 screens, it can be easily found in large cities in Korea, China, and Southeast Asia.
Enjoy a special experience at Tempur Cinema, the world's first with reclining sofas, Stressless Cinema, and Cherish Cinema with sophisticated lounge-style sofa seating. Enjoy a delicious dining course with the latest movies at Sine de Chef.
Operating hours: 365 days a year
Seoul Museum of Art
A place where works of art provide artistic inspiration and relaxation
The Seoul Museum of Art, located next to the stone wall road of Deoksugung Palace, was established to expand the understanding and base of contemporary art through various exhibitions, special exhibitions, and educational lectures. The old Supreme Court building was converted into an art museum with only the façade preserved, and art exhibitions are always held in the six exhibition rooms in the main building. You can see works by not only Andy Warhol, the master of pop art, but also Chagall, who created fantastic colors, and Rodin, the sculptor known as the Hand of God. In addition, we are receiving a lot of positive response by running educational classes such as art play using plastic arts.
The museum trail, another art space, is built without walls so you can enjoy landscaping and sculptures, so immerse yourself in artistic contemplation among trees with hundreds of years of history.
Phone: +82 (0)2-2124-8800
Namdaemun Market
A vibrant shopping and food paradise
Namdaemun Market, which has both tradition and modernity, is the largest traditional market with 500,000 people visiting every day. It has a long history, having been formed during the Joseon Dynasty, and there are over 1,700 types of goods traded. It is said that if you can't find it here, you can't find it anywhere, so people come here to enjoy shopping not only from Korea but also from all over the world, including China, Japan, Southeast Asia, Europe, the United States, and the Middle East. Geographically, it is close to tourist attractions such as Sungnyemun Gate, Deoksugung Palace, and Gyeongbokgung Palace, as well as Myeongdong, Namsan Tower, Namsan Hanok Village, and Hanseong Wall Road, making it the most popular shopping and food spot for foreigners.
Enjoy food that can only be found in Namdaemun Market at the Cutlassfish Alley, Kalguksu Alley, where famous restaurants are gathered, Buwon Myeonok, where you can eat North Korean-style cold noodle restaurants, and the oldest tail gomtang restaurant.
Operating hours: Monday - Saturday 9:00 AM - 9:00 PM / Sunday 11:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Phone: +82 (0)2-7532-805