What to do in South Korea?

What we would do here

Not a place to walk into, but something to do: our pick per area.

• A Korean cooking class

  Korean cooking is built on fermentation, and what a class in Seoul gives you is why every meal arrives with so many small dishes. It explains every other meal on the trip

• A jjimjilbang bathhouse
  Spa Land Centum · 4.4 stars · 232 reviews

  Busan has genuine hot springs beneath the city, so its bathhouses are not just steam rooms. This is a social institution in Korea rather than a hotel facility, and Busan has its own version of it

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• A templestay

  This programme was built in Korea to open working monasteries to visitors, and in Gyeongju the monasteries are why you come to the city at all. Staying inside one is the difference between seeing it and sleeping to its rhythm

• The haenyeo divers
  Haenyeo Diving Women Village · 4.4 stars · 2743 reviews

  On Jeju women dive without tanks and harvest from the seabed, a tradition passed down generations and recognised as cultural heritage. They demonstrate and talk in the coastal villages, and it is the thing this island alone has

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