Full Day National Museum & Han River Cruise Tour

National Museum

The National Museum of Korea (NMK) endeavors to preserve, to exhibit, and to interpret our cultural heritage in a manner that befits the museum’s international scale. It also strives through international cultural exchanges to become a world-class institution that serves the Korean people. To achieve its mission, the museum will focus on three objectives: popularization, globalization, and informatization. Above all, the NMK will provide more extensive visitor services both in quality and quantity as it envisions a cultural multiplex of great accessibility and comfort.

Cheonggyecheon

The Cheonggyecheon used to be a naturally formed stream before the Joseon Dynasty designated Seoul as its capital. It was used for women gathered along the stream, bringing a load of clothes to wash and cauldrons to boil the clothes, and children playing in the stream. After a few of changes,in the 1980s and 1990s, it came to be regarded as a source of intense traffic, health and environmental issues. Finaly, Seoul city decided to recover the stream and now it becomes an oasis of the city, Seoul.

COEX Aquarium

The COEX Aquarium offers not only an opportunity not just for leisure but for education as well. It is a theme-oriented aquarium of world class which promotes Edutainment (Education+ Entertainment).
Under the theme of “The Fantastic Journey of Water”, the COEX Aquarium has produced an environment closely simulating the real one, to allow children a chance to acquire first-hand knowledge of the world of underwater organisms. The COEX Aquarium boasts facilities that can beat any other aquarium in the world. It not only adds to the integrity of the theme park industry in Korea but also enhances the profitability of its tourism.

Han River Cruise 

There are 7 leisure boats operating at each ferry of Jamsil, Ttukseom, Yeouido, Yanghwa and Nanji(Samgam) for various combinations of cruising routes. With the gentle ripples of the river dancing to the dazzling spotlights and the tunes of music from the leisure boats, each ferry is a romantic place lovers, friends and families can get together and enjoy the beauties of the Hangang.

Bongeunsa Temple 

Just north of the COEX Center, Bongeun-sa offers a quiet retreat from the hustle and bustle of crowded city life in the midst of busy and ultra-modern Samseong-dong of the Gangnam-gu District. The temple is a major center for the Seon (Zen) sect of Buddhism, which focuses on meditation.