Entertainment sights in Seoul
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Garosu-Gil
This tree-lined street is filling up with more and more cute fashion boutiques, art galleries, music bars and cafés. French food, wine and style is much in evidence, but mixed in with the usual Italian and Asian styles. The street’s trendy newcomers are now spilling over into the side streets. Recommended places to pop into include La Cuba Latin Music Pub, Pain de Papa (unique breads), King Kong Steak (a reasonably-priced, stylish diner), Lone Costume (fashionista styles with attitude), bloom & goûté (real French choux pastry in a flower-scented pavement café), and Grandmother (Arabian Nights fantasy bar). From Apgujeong subway station exit 5, walk straight for 10…
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Lotte World
This huge complex includes an amusement park, an ice-skating rink, a cinema multiplex, department store, folk museum, shopping mall, hotel, restaurants and more. Kids and adults alike love Lotte World, and couples can arrange to meet at Lotte’s own Trevi Fountain. Visit at the weekend to see a free traditional show at nearby Seoul Norimadang at 3pm. Lotte World Adventure & Magic Island is a mainly indoor Korean version of Disneyland, complete with ‘flying’ balloons, 3D films, laser and music shows, screen rides, fantasy parades and thrill rides that go down very fast or round and round and up and down very fast. The scarier the ride, the longer the queue on busy days.…
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63 Building
One of the tallest and most stylish skyscrapers in Seoul, the 63 Building has recently been given a makeover. A 15-minute walk from the subway, it has three major attractions: Sea World, an aquarium that has penguin feeding at 3.30pm and seal, sea lion and diving shows hourly; IMAX, showing hourly movies on a gigantic screen with English-language commentary in an earphone; and Sky Art, which combines a 60th-floor observation deck with changing art exhibitions. A triple ticket makes for a big day out, especially if it includes the 63 Buffet Pavilion ).
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Kukkiwon
The Kukkiwon dojang (hall) hosts a regular schedule of taekwondo displays, training courses and tournaments. Visit on Wednesday from 10am to noon to see a training session by the world’s best taekwondo demonstration team. Expect to see graceful movements, spectacular pine-board breaking and acrobatic high kicking that defies gravity. The museum (admission free; open 9-11.30am & 1-5pm Mon-Fri) has photos, cups, medals and uniforms relating to the sport. English is spoken if you telephone.
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Jangchung Gymnasium
Ssireum is Korean-style wrestling, more like Mongolian wrestling than Japanese sumo. Wrestlers start off kneeling, then grab their opponent’s piece of cloth – satba (tied around the waist and thighs) – and try to throw each other to the ground. Major ssireum competitions are held at Jangchung Gymnasium during the Lunar New Year and Chuseok holidays.
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