{"id":36295,"date":"2024-12-17T21:39:50","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T13:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=36295"},"modified":"2026-03-10T19:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T11:51:10","slug":"day-11-seoul-bukchon-hanok-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2024\/12\/17\/day-11-seoul-bukchon-hanok-village\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 11 @ Seoul – Bukchon Hanok Village"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pictures of the sloped alleys and streets at the Bukchon Hanok Village are perhaps some of the most iconic pictures of Seoul. The village is where you’d find hundreds of Hanok – i.e. traditional houses – that date back to the Joseon dynasty. Many of these houses are now cafes and shops, but many are also residential. I reckon perhaps because of bad encounters with noisy tourists, new regulations since November had just been put in place at this village: there are now stipulated visitation hours and days, and visitors are required to keep noise to a minimum. And there were plenty of staff at key junctures of the village ensuring that visitors behave too.<\/p>\n

Our initial plan was to visit the village first thing in the morning before the crowds came in. Unfortunately, we had to do Changdeokgung Palace first in view of the reservation we’d made for the Secret Garden guided tour. So, by the time we’d made our way to the village, it was already close to noon and there were a number of people already exploring the village. I knew it would be futile to try to get those pictures of the village street with the modern Seoul city in the background sans crowds. So, we took our time to lunch first at a very quaint cafe called The Hanok Cafe which was run by a lovely middle-aged lady who spoke pretty good English, and whipped up delicious western-styled lunch items. And thereafter, spent about 30 minutes exploring the village.<\/p>\n

Pictures!<\/p>\n

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Signatures informing of the visitation hours for Bukchon Hanok village. We saw another information board that noted that Sundays are considered ‘rest days’, which we assume meant that visitors were not permitted into the village. Though the area is public, I don’t know how the village’s wardens would actually stop people from entering it on that day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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There are places for you to rent Hanboks. We’ve still yet to give those a go this trip!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Snapped a quick shot of the narrow street when there was a relative lull in passersby.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This was about 12:48PM and the sun was right overhead.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Compression effect created using the 3X optical lens on the Samsung S24 Ultra. Good lighting, but the area was pretty crowded.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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One of the alternate alleys in the village. The photo is deceiving, as there were still visitors about, but I had a momentary window of a couple seconds to snap this quick picture!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lots of signage around about this being a residential area. Most visitors were well-behaved, and the several wardens on station throughout the village ensured of that!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In summary, this is a must-see area when you’re in Seoul, and I reckon you can cover the village in 30 minutes if you’re short on time, and about an hour if you’d like to more thoroughly explore the area – and even more time needs to be added if you’re also browsing wares and visiting shops. Timing though is everything if you’d like to take pictures of the village without jostling with other visitors.<\/p>\n

It was about early afternoon when we’d finished exploring the village. We next walked in the direction of Insadong to continue our foot exploration of Seoul. Continued in the next post!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pictures of the sloped alleys and streets at the Bukchon Hanok Village are perhaps some of the most iconic pictures of Seoul. The village is where you’d find hundreds of Hanok – i.e. traditional houses – that date back to<\/p>\n

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