Top choice in Gyeonggi-do & Incheon
If you're planning to overnight by the airport, you might as well do it in style. This 370-room cubist-meets-modernist structure looks like a concrete cruise ship, with bare-walled, uberswish rooms (the deluxe doubles have beds facing a private balcony and quirky triangular tubs), and a gorgeous outdoor pool (₩55,000 per person) beside the West Sea.
It's a 15-minute ride on the hotel shuttle bus to the airport, or you can take the free Maglev which stops a few minutes' walk away from the hotel.
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Providing terrific photo opportunities, Korea's largest fish market supplies every kind of aquatic life form to restaurants, fish shops and the general…
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This 6.3km park, named for the former Gyeongui Line (on which it was built), is a narrow, long green space that runs along the discarded railroad tracks…
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Funded by Korea’s top tobacco company, this visually striking building is home to an art-house cinema, a concert space (hosting top indie bands) and…
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The partially restored remains of a small palace, dating back to the Goryeo dynasty (918–1392), sit on a hillside in Ganghwa-eup. The palace was completed…
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The spectacular 2km-long Seopori Beach, located along Deokjeokdo's southern shore and backed by a thick grove of 200-year-old pine trees, is a sleepy…
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This extension of the Gyeongui Line Forest Park is a book-themed pathway of bookshops housed in train-carriage-like containers. The street commemorates…
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Originally built after Korea’s first oil crisis in 1973 and reopened in 2017, this cultural centre is made up of five abandoned oil tanks. Planted in a…
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Jeoldusan means ‘Beheading Hill’ – this is where up to 2000 Korean Catholics were executed in 1866 following a royal decree, most thrown off the high…
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The nothernmost of the two main beaches on Muuido's west coast, Silmi is 2km south-west from the ferry terminal. Quieter than Hanagae Beach, at low tide…
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Hanagae Beach is Muuido's best, with plenty of golden sand, a handful of seafood restaurants and basic beach huts under the pine trees or on the beach…
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Yeongjongdo’s main beach isn't particularly idyllic (in fact it's a tad shabby), but it is the most easily accessible stretch of sand from Seoul. The…
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The tiny, car-free island of So-Muuido can be accessed via a footbridge from Muuido’s south-eastern tip. It's a charming fishing community with a clifftop…
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On the next bay north from Eulwangni Beach you'll find Wangsan Beach, which is broader and has a less developed beachfront.
6. Korean Emigration History Museum
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This museum offers interesting insights into the outbound journeys of Korean migrants, with a focus on those settling throughout the Americas. It's…
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This large fish and seafood market has row upon row of vendors hawking every kind of edible sea beast, which can be consumed right here at several small…
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This large, forested park has walking trails, a replica of a traditional Korean garden, and the hilltop Wolmi Observatory, offering views across the port…