COEX Convention & Exhibition Center

코엑스

The exhibition and convention centre at Samseong, whose halls and auditorium host fan meetings and awards shows. It is a separate operation from the Starfield COEX Mall and the aquarium in the same underground complex.

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Place information

Korean name: 코엑스
Address: 513 Yeongdong-daero, Gangnam-gu, Seoul
Opening hours: not published by the operator
Closed: Not published by the operator
Hours notes: The building opens for the event it is hosting, so no standing opening hours are published. Entry time is announced per show by whoever is promoting it.
Admission: Not published by the operator

Official site

Nearby

Starfield Library

It is a mall atrium, not a library in the quiet sense — there is no lending, and the photographs everyone comes for are of a space full of people. Power sockets and worktables make it a genuinely usable stop between COEX appointments.

Colorful lettered sign over the entrance to COEX Aquarium

SEA LIFE COEX Aquarium

Nobody should pay the gate price. The operator's own site sells the same adult ticket at a standing discount and drops it further on selected dates, so the number to plan around is the online one, booked before you arrive.

The standing Maitreya at Bongeunsa with the Gangnam high-rises and the temple's tiled roofs behind it

Bongeunsa Temple

The temple publishes no opening hours and no admission fee anywhere on its own site. What it does publish hours for is the bakery, the noodle canteen, the Buddhist-goods shop and the florist — which is a fair description of how the grounds are actually used.

A grass-covered royal tomb mound at Seonjeongneung against a backdrop of high-rises

Seonjeongneung Royal Tombs

It sells monthly and lunchtime passes, which tells you what it mostly is: a working park that office workers and neighbours walk through, which happens to contain two royal tombs. Under-25s get in free, so for most young travellers the ticket price is irrelevant.

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