Insa-dong Travel Recommendations for 2025 (Updated in Oct)

This street is located in Insadong, Jongro-gu, Seoul, South Korea. It has boutique galleries and street vendors selling traditional Korean snacks. You can also find shops here selling souvenirs. This street is abundance of wooden tea houses (nearly 40), boutique galleries and street vendors offering traditional Korean snacks makes Insa-dong street in Seoul a true magnet for visitors of the Korean capital. Alongside the free entertainment the area is famous for, Insa-dong is also one of the key destinations in the city for buying traditional Korean art, products and souvenirs, such as hanbok (traditional clothing), hanji (traditional paper), traditional teas, pottery, and folk crafts. There is a plethora of antique shops (more than 50), art galleries (80+), traditional stationery shops, handicraft shops, pottery and porcelain shops, bookstores, and art supply stores. On top of that, there are almost 100 restaurants specialized in traditional Korean cuisine. With such a variety on offer, one is really bound to be spoilt for choice here. #fallingforfall #tripblazers #urbanexplorer

Korean Grilled Barbeque Restaurant located in 16 Insadong 12-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul, South Korea. Pork grilled freshly in front of you. Very well cooked meat, so soft but crunchy without scorching and tastes like beefsteak. #fallingforfall

#fallingforfall From the land of Blackpink and BTS also their infamous Kimchi and smoky BBQ pork cuisine. There lies a deeper discovery to be unearth within the old district of Insadong. Their 21st Century Seoul style Hanok are an ingenious exemplars of the continual evolution result of outside cultural influences. Adapting the natural and cultural environment of the urban and complimenting the changing modern lifestyle. Designed to offer greater versatility and complexity to perform a wide variety of functions. The modern Seoul Hanok stills holds true to the collective, multifunctional and communal focus value but the ingenuity evolution has infused greater creativity, diversity and three dimensionality whilst retaining its cultural identity. Highly recommend the experience.