8 Days Seoul Itinerary & Interesting Things To Do

Some of you have been have been asking me about my Seoul itinerary and I'll share it here with you with the interesting bits.

 A'REX Platform at Incheon Airport

Day 1

•  Arrive at Seoul in late afternoon
• Dakhanmari dinner at Dongdaemum

Day 2

• Dongdaemum shopping at Doota & Pyeonghwa market

• Dinner at Gangnam

My Best Meal in Seoul This Trip

• Drinks at Once In A Blue Moon Jazz Club

Day 3

• Nandaemum market shopping
• Sinchon for coffee

All Bright & Orangey

• Ewha Woman's University campus visit 

• It's worth a visit as the architecture and scenery is beautiful

• Ewha Woman's University shopping
• Hongdae for Korean BBQ dinner
• JJ Mahoney's at Hyatt Hotel (located at Namsan) for drinks

Day 4

• Korean Folk Village

• There's restaurants serving breakfast there so you won't have to worry about food if you want to go early
• Do note the performance schedule if you want to be in time for the shows

• Dinner at friend's place with food from Shinsegae Dartmental Store basement deli

• We celebrated my friend's birthday and mine too with a cake from Apres-midi; it has THE BEST macaron cake I've ever eaten. The texture was soft and moist and before we knew it, the whole cake was gone!

Apre-midi Strawberry Macaron Cake

• Apre-midi is located at the basement of Shinsegae Departmental Store, at a corner near the washrooms

Day 5

• KTX to Gwangju, then a bus to Damyang

•  Damyang Bamboo Forest visit 
• Check into Hanok at Samjicheon Village
• Soswaewon Garden
• Dinner & drinks at Damyang

Day 6

• Morning tour of Samjicheon Village aka Slow City and House of Kim Yeong-Bong Hanok 

Rustic Beauty

• Check out of Hanok

Hanok's Common Dining Room

• Head back to Seoul from Gwangju
• Myeong-Dong shopping
• If you need to exchange currency, Myeong-Dong is the place to go to. There's a lot of money changers to choose from.

• Dak Hanmari dinner again at Dongdaemum; it shows how much we enjoyed it
• Late night shopping at Doota and Miglore at Dongdaemum 

Day 7

• Lunch and shopping at Insadong
• Siloam Jimjibang experience
• Shop at Lotte Mart at Seoul Station
• Dinner and coffee at Gangnam
• Late night shopping at Dongdaemum wholesale area

• We also tried the roadside tent supper food and it wasn't nice. We got misled by the K-dramas. 

Day 8

• Last minute shopping at Myeong-Dong
• Bye bye Seoul before heading to Incheon Airport

New Found Love Bought Available at DFS

• The above kimchi brand is supposedly the best available at DFS. I personally think that it'll be wiser to buy your kimchi from Lotte Mart where you can sample and select the one more suited to your taste bud. Moreover, it'll cost less than the 10USD pack above.

Hope this helps! =)