Located in Samseong-dong, Gangnam-gu, the central business district of Seoul, Hotel the Designers (Samseong Branch) offers high quality service and excellent convenient facilities, housing 90 guestrooms equipped with a laptop available for surfing the internet. A meeting room is also available for business purposes.
It's famous Korokke named Myeongdong Korokke(명동 고로케)
It's located opposite from Myeong-dong Cathedral. A famous street vendor which offers a variety of croquettes.
Hotel Riviera Seoul is a top-class hotel chain that was first opened on December 12, 1987, with the philosophy of creating a whole new hotel culture. The hotel is located to the south of Yeongdong Bridge in Cheongdam-dong, offering the convenience of the Olympic Expressway for transportation. In February of 1992, a state-of-the-art 150-car parking structure was completed, along with a 300-car parking lot. In 1992 and 1993, the hotel was selected as the best hotel for 2 straight years.
Tiffany Tourist Hotel in the upscale neighborhood of Cheongdam-dong features 43 Western-style and 9 Korean-style guestrooms at affordable rates. Guests may hop on a subway at the nearby subway station to access other areas of Gangnam-gu County for diverse commercial and cultural activities.
The Dongdaemun Fashion Town was slowly developed by Cerestar, Doota, Migliore, Pyounghwa, and wholesalers settling in Dongdaemun. Not only do Koreans shop in these areas, but visitors from Japan, China, Russia, and other countries have been known to frequently shop at both wholesale and retail stores here.
The Hyeyang Elysium operates a special order shop (on floor G) for its foreign customers. There are also airport shuttle buses available to further attract more customers visiting from abroad. The merchants of the Hyeyang Elysium have plenty of knowledge in the latest fashions, as they personally research the fashion markets of Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.
Jajangmyeong Museum opened in Incheon during the open port period to promote the historical and cultural values of Korean-style jajangmyeon (noodles in black bean sauce) that has now become one of the “Top 100 Cultural Symbols of Korea.”
* Opened: April 28, 2012
* Cultural heritage: Gonghwachun, Seollin-dong, Incheon – Registered Cultural Heritage No. 246 (designated on April 14, 2006)
Ramada Hotel & Suite Seoul Namdaemun is a first class international business hotel in Korea with impeccable service, installed with the latest facilities and a wide range of suite rooms for guests to choose from. Comprising 331 rooms decorated with style and class, this hotel offers 25% of total guest rooms in the form of a suite room, the highest density of suites for a single hotel in Korea. Standard rooms are also spacious for added comfort, around 6.6sqm, larger than most of its counterparts in five star hotels. There are four types of guest rooms including Superior, Deluxe, Junior Suite and King Suite.The overall interior of the hotel is designed to accommodate the resort-in-city theme of the hotel, to offer a space of rejuvenation for its guests. Guests visiting the Ramada Hotel & Suite Seoul Namdaemun may feel like walking into an oasis in the middle of the desert. The artistically decorated lobby and mini outdoor parks found intermittently around the hotel, resemble an exotic resort area, all designed to provide comfortable break for the guests. The hotel garden is arranged to create a beautiful scenery any time of the year and there is a large water fountain in front of the hotel to add a refreshing touch to this oasis inside the city.Tourist attractions including Deoksugung and Gyeongbokgung Palaces are cultural heritages where the tradition of Korea can be felt first hand. The national museum and art galleries, theaters for performance arts are also close by for foreign tourists to experience the Korean culture and enjoy various performance.
Opened in 1978 in central Daegu, Gaejeong a Korean restaurant serving traditional dishes, including different types of naengmyeon (chilled buckwheat noodle) and bibimbap.
The KBS Suwon Studio is an outstanding film studio that produces HD digital TV dramas. It is comprised of an open set, drama production center, special set, and various facilities.Intended to be used semi-permanently, the studio boasts realistic buildings. A variety of dramas filmed there include historical dramas such as Empress Myeongseong and Dongyang Geukjang; the studio is also a popular site for producing movies, commercials, and music videos.In close collaboration with Suwon, KBS opened this media theme park full of attractions. Visitors can visit the studio through its tour program or the Suwon City Tour run by Suwon.
The Daegu Yangnyeongsi (medicine market) is a major herbal medicine market specializing in the practices of Oriental medicine that dates all the way back to the Joseon Dynasty. During the era of the Joseon Dynasty, the Daegu Yangnyeongsi was at the center of the herbal medicine world, providing Oriental medicine to travelers from all around the world including Japan, China, Russia, Manchuria and many other countries.
To this day, the Daegu Yangnyeongsi still flows with herb farmers, collectors, sellers, and buyers operating over 50 herbal medicine stores and 25 herbal clinics with 85 herbal medicine doctors, and 20 ginseng stores. The market is also known to be the first wholesale medicine market in Korea.
The exhibition hall located on the 2nd floor of the wholesale market offers baskets used to collect herbs, ‘yakjanggi’ to store herbs, scales to measure the weight of the herbs, and old books on herbal medicine. The Medicine Festival is held every year in May and boasts a wide variety of fun-filled events like traditional folk music programs, an herb exhibition, and herb-cutting competitions.