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Gwanghwamun & Jongno-gu


Pricey drinks, including a good selection of wine, come with knockout views from the enormous windows at this restaurant and bar perched 33 floors above downtown Seoul. Live jazz runs from 7pm each night, but if you’re coming just for a drink, show up after 8.30pm when the dinnertime buffet (₩59,000) finishes.


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Nearby Gwanghwamun & Jongno-gu attractions

1. Jongno Tower

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Designed by Rafael Viñoly, this striking 33-storey office building with a floating oval lords it over low-rise Insa-dong and has a fancy restaurant and…

2. Bosingak

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Contrasting with the modern Jongno Tower opposite, this ornate pavilion houses a recent copy of the city bell – the original, forged in 1468, is in the…

3. Sun Art Center

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One of Seoul's longest running commercial-art galleries, in business since 1977, Sun Art specialises in early-20th-century Korean art and awards an annual…

4. Hwabong Gallery

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Cutting-edge Korean art is usually on show in this basement space alongside permanent displays of the smallest book in the world (no more than a dot), and…

5. Mokin Museum

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Mokin are carved and painted wooden figures and decorative motifs that were used to decorate sangyeo (funeral carriages). Carved by village craftsmen,…

6. Tapgol Park

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Seoul's first modern-style park, opened in 1897, stands on the precincts of Wongak-sa, a Buddhist temple destroyed in 1504. Left behind was its remarkable…

7. Jogye-sa

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The focus of Jogye-sa is the grand wooden hall Daeungjeon, Seoul's largest Buddhist worship hall and the epicentre of Korean Buddhism. Completed in 1938,…

8. Stone Pagoda of Wongak-sa

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This 10-tier, 12m-high monument in Tapgol Park once graced Wongak-sa, a Buddhist temple that stood here but was destroyed in 1504 on the orders of the…