Gangnam Walking Tour on Youth and Society in Seoul Korea *Ice bands provided

Experience a unique Gangnam Walking Tour with a local historian and explore the social issues in Korea. Discover the hidden challenges behind Korea’s success and gain a new perspective on this fascinating country.

Duration: 2 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • 강남역사거리 - 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.
  • 호텔시애틀 - This is a love hotel district. Let’s look at the love cultures in Korea.
  • Gangnam Daeseong Cram School - One of the most famous private institute. June will share…
What's Included
  • Gratuities
What's Not Included
  • Transporation fee(1800won). We will be a subway for one time during the tour.
Additional Information

Explore how South Korea’s younger generation manages the pressures stemming from the nation’s economic success.
Join June & Jessica, your local guides, as they reveal the deeper layers of Korean society.
Navigate through lively streets nestled between towering skyscrapers. Observe the endless advertisements for beauty products, luxury brands, and even…

Location
Gangman Station Exit No. 11
"Gangnam Station exit 11". We will be meeting outside of exit11.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Jeff_r
Nov 7, 2024
Balanced, as all things must be - Sometimes, when you go in vacation, you only see the positive, shiny side of the place you visit. This may leave you thinking "I should totally live there!" But it's important to take note of the negative aspects of a place as well both for forming opinion but also just to have a more complete experience. This tour does a great job of highlighting some of South Korea's less attractive qualities while being entertaining and helping to balance out the sunshine and rainbows you will get from most tours. If you don't want that information, perhaps this isn't the tour for you but I had a great time, learned a lot, and Jessica was a fantastic guide! I highly recommend doing this and, if you get Jessica, you'll be very lucky indeed.
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Ongej
Nov 6, 2024
Insightful walking tour - A different kind of tour with insights into the struggles and challenges of living in Seoul. June is a very engaging and entertaining guide. A walking tour with unique viewpoints.
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224sherleyb
Nov 6, 2024
Gangnam dark but beautiful - This tour was very enjoyable and informative. It was really nice to hear about a few societal struggles that Korea are facing, but in a very gentle, non-judgmental way. June, being Korean himself gave us a great insight into Korean society and he even shared his personal experiences. Funny enough, this tour answered several questions I had about Korean issues. It was an easy walking tour around Gangnam. June was an amazing guide anyone would be lucky to have him as a guide.
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Helkak9
Nov 4, 2024
Excellent tour! - June was excellent tour guide with broad knowledge on the subject. We appreciate that he has a masters in history and goes very deep in the subjects. Very interesting tour. We also booked one more tour with him since we were so happy with this tour.
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Maps29608132550
Oct 30, 2024
Great tour with June through Seoul - Exciting tour with June through Seoul, very interesting and informative. June showed us Seoul from a whole new side and we learned a lot about life in Seoul. Highly recommended, I would book again.
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The7thgalaxy
Oct 28, 2024
Gangnam Tour about korean social issues from a korean guide’s perspective - June emailed me the day before the tour to confirm the date/timing, the walking tour started around gangnam station to sinsa and troll through garousil street then to han river nearby apujeong station. If you like to find out more about the local social issues about gangnam from the miracle development to education to housing to lookism (plastic surgery) from a local korean guide’s perspective, this is the tour to sign up for. The tour ends with June’s optional lunch recommendation at a local restaurant in apujeong area with additional cost.
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Julieme3548ip
Oct 25, 2024
Fantastic intro to South Korean youth culture - Fantastic tour full of interesting information about what it’s like to live in South Korean society as a modern young person. June does an amazing job of providing context to help you audio inside the shoes of Korean youth and understand the pressures they are juggling. Highly recommend!
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Sydney_m
Oct 24, 2024
Ask for tour guide June for excellent historical context. - June was knowledgeable and transparent in discussing youth, society (education, supplemental education, dating, marriage, birth rates, plastic surgery and "lookism". As an added bonus, June understands the history of Seoul's dramatic development over the last 7 decades. He shared valuable and interesting information with our group that would normally be experienced in a more expensive context tour. Highly recommend June, personally.
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853betinaa
Oct 23, 2024
Understanding the real Korea and its challenges - I'd been really looking forward to this walk. I work in community development in Canada and am very interested in social issues. I prefer tours that talk about reality and arent sugar coated for tourists. I was very curious about social issues in SK. June was very knowledgeable hitting on topics like education, housing, the struggles youth have to go through, obsession with money and beauty...and how all of this is inter-related. Great tour and would highly recommend it. And make sure you walk to the Han River park after and take in the spectacular view of the City.
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Xavierj677
Oct 23, 2024
Recommended! - Definitely worth your time if you want to know the main issues South Koreans face as a society . Jessica did a great job, speaking from first hand experience and answered all our questions. As other reviews have said though, don't expect this tour to tell you much about Gangnam; the location is used mainly as the background setting of some of the topics covered during the tour.
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From $29
up to 15 guests
1 Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).