The National Folk Museum of Korea

About

Explore korean traditions and daily life, with a cool 70s/80s seoul exhibit.

Why go

• Step into the everyday life, traditions, and stories that shaped korea
• Experience korean daily life and traditions
• A chance to step into the everyday life, traditions, and stories that shaped Korea

Must try

• Recreated streets of the nineteen seventies and nineteen eighties
• Borrow costumes from the Reply 1988 and When Life Gives You Tangerines eras
• Exhibit on the human fascination with cats
• Traditional homes, schools, medicine, markets, and post-war reconstruction
• Traditional korean daily life, culture, and beautifully curated exhibits

Pro tips

• Located inside the gyeongbokgung complex
• Free entry
• Hours vary seasonally, 9am-6pm (mar-oct), 9am-5pm (nov-feb)
• Visit after gyeongbokgung to add everyday culture
• Anguk station exit 1, gwanghwamun station exit 2

Good to know

• Closed every tuesday

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Rating

4.6 / 5 (3635 reviews)

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