Gangnam Walking Tour on Youth and Society in Seoul Korea
Description
Discover how the younger generation of South Korea cope with the pressures of the country's economic achievements. Travel with June & Jessica, local guide who will take you to deeper layers of Korean society. Follow us through bustling streets tucked between highrise buildings. Gaze at the endless advertisements for various beauty products, luxury brands, and even plastic surgery clinics. Realize what you are seeing reflects a deep issue in Korean society. The Korean system achieved outstanding results of development, but also left lots of challenges behind. What are making a wealthy country, Korea, into one of the unhappiest countries in the world? Learn about the darker aspects of living in South Korea. Find out why Korea has such high suicide rates, a low birth rate, an intense emphasis placed on education, and the country's obsession with beauty. Gain a different perspective as you stroll the wealthy neighborhood to the tour's end point at the Han River.
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Itinerary
Gangnam is the most developed and rich area in this country. From here, June will be dealing with housing problems & histories about developments in Korea.
This is a love hotel district. Let's look at the love cultures in Korea.
One of the most famous private institute. June will share education cultures & birthrate related to it.
No.1 area for plastic surgeries. Let's look at plastic cultures Koreans have.
Han river. This is a place representing developement & suicide. Let's look at the histories of them.
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Important Information
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Reviews(446)
Jessica is an engaging and knowledgeable guide who is very open, kind and fun. This was a fascinating tour that put a lot I’ve learned about Korea into perspective. I recommend this tour to anyone who wants to really understand Korean culture today. Not your typical tour. Excellent! 5 stars.
Very interesting tour in Gangnam by guide June. He gave a lot of explanations and could answer our questions well!
Thanks for the good tour, Jun!
Very nice explanation by the guide named June. Very good and clear english also. We really learned a lot about the shadow side of South Korea
Jessica was amazing, energy, attitude, easy to understand and explaining corran culture so to the point!!! Would recommend 1000000%
Can really be recommended. Jessica was very knowledgeable and told many exciting stories. If there's a trip one should go on, it's this one.
It was definitely one of the most interesting tours I’ve ever been to and I highly recommend it to everyone interested in Korea. Jessica is such an amazing guide!
This tour was the #1 thing we did while visiting Seoul! Jessica is a wealth of information, and her delivery is excellent. I loved the way she would preface key pieces of information - and there were many! - with a question so you could really follow her points. She pointed out buildings and signs during our walk that would have meant nothing to me but are actually very important to understanding Korean culture and what it means to be Korean today. Not being used to humidity, we found the hot weather very uncomfortable when we were in Seoul, and Jessica was sensitive to this. She brought us to places outside that had seating in the shade and a cafe at one point where we had our own area to listen to her while sipping a cold drink. Also, very importantly, she provided lightweight portable devices so that every person on the tour was able to clearly hear every word she said, even when we were walking single file in narrow or crowded spaces. She was just excellent. She explained the training that she has had to be a tour guide and that she was continuing to take more classes to learn more about Korean history and culture. Finally, her English was native level, having spent most of her childhood and growing up years in the US, and at the end of the tour she stayed and answered questions about the tour and other things people asked about. Can’t recommend this tour highly enough. I’m sure there isn’t another one like it. Sign up if you are curious about the parts of Korean culture you don’t readily see but that are huge in the experience of being Korean today.
Great tour to understand more of the cultural context of Seoul
I really enjoyed this tour about youth in Korea. It was very interesting and informative, and I learned a lot. Jessica was a fantastic guide – her English was excellent, and she explained everything clearly and in a very engaging way. I would definitely recommend this tour!
