Lonely Planet™ · Thorn Tree Forum · 2020

Tour to JSA/DMZ with early leave???

Country forums / North-East Asia / South Korea

Hi everyone,

I will be in Seoul for a week and might be lucky enough to have a free morning on the 21st March. This same day, my flight home leaves from Incheon at 3.20pm.

I would love to see the JSA in the DMZ, but Korridoor's tour returns to Camp Kim only at 3.30pm, which means I would miss my flight. Unfortunately, they do not offer tailor-made tours which would drive me to Incheon rather than Seoul.

My question now: Is it possible to leave their tour earlier (the JSA is the first thing to see on their tour, so I would "only" miss the 3rd tunnel and Dorasan Station) and arrange private transport from the DMZ to Incheon? Both from an infrastructure perspective (is there at all any private transport close to the DMZ that I could hire?) and from a security perspective (do the US forces at all allow people to leave the DMZ on their own, i.e. without the rest of the tour?).

If this doesn't work, does anyone know of a company which arranges private tours to the JSA and allow me to visit it before I leave lovely Korea?

Big thanks to anyone who might provide some help or ideas!

Cheers
Andreas

No, these tours are in security-controlled military areas. Is there no other day you are available to do it?

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