The grandest of Seoul's five royal palaces, built in 1395 for the Joseon dynasty, set against the mountains. Watch the changing of the royal guard at the main gate, and see the Gyeonghoeru Pavilion standing in a lotus pond.
Visitors wearing hanbok (traditional dress) enter free; rental shops are nearby. It's closed on Tuesdays. Next door, the National Folk Museum is free. Changdeokgung, with its Secret Garden, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
A hillside neighbourhood of traditional Korean wooden houses (hanok) with tiled roofs, between Gyeongbokgung and Changdeokgung palaces.
One of the oldest and largest traditional markets in Korea, opened in 1905, with rows of food stalls where you sit on benches to eat bindaetteok (mun…
A fortress wall built in the late 18th century around the centre of Suwon, nearly 6 km long, with gates, watchtowers and bastions, a UNESCO World Her…
The heavily fortified border strip between North and South Korea.
South Korea's most famous mountain park, with granite peaks, waterfalls and temples, especially spectacular in autumn.
A traditional village of tiled and thatched houses in a bend of the Nakdong River, still lived in by the Ryu clan, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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