KINTEX

킨텍스

The exhibition and convention complex at Ilsan in Goyang, whose halls are turned over to large fan meetings and awards shows. It is in Gyeonggi rather than Seoul, so the journey from a Seoul hotel is its own calculation.

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The KINTEX building from outside. The name KINTEX sits at the top of its glass-clad mass, the roof on the right sweeps down to the ground in one long curve, and construction cranes stand behind it to the left.

Place information

Korean name: 킨텍스
Nearest station: Kintex Station (킨텍스역, GTX)
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

Nearby

Gimpo Jangneung from above: the T-shaped shrine with a stele pavilion and a keeper’s house beside it, the path running straight down from it, and the burial ground on the rise above

Gimpo Jangneung Royal Tomb

It opens at 07:00 under the early-admission rule. It is the tomb of Wonjong and Queen Inheon, and the lotus pond inside the precinct is the best-preserved of any left at a Joseon royal tomb.

Yereung head-on: behind the shrine, two mounds side by side inside one curved screen wall on the hill, with stone figures ranged in two rows in front of them

Seosamneung Royal Tombs

Three royal tombs and two princely graves, and beside them the royal placenta chambers gathered here from all over the country under Japanese rule — where what became of them can be seen at once.

Gongneung from above: the path running straight from the red spirit gate at the bottom up to the T-shaped shrine, with the burial ground beyond it on a hill closed in by woods

Paju Samneung Royal Tombs

Gongneung, Sulleung and Yeongneung in one precinct. Of the three, only Sulleung was built to the full royal-tomb form — its occupant alone died holding the rank of queen.

Paju Jangneung’s burial ground from above: a single mound inside its curved screen wall with a balustrade and no panels, and on the two terraces below it the civil and military figures, stone horses and stone lantern

Paju Jangneung Royal Tomb

The joint tomb of Injo and Queen Inyeol. When it was moved, the old stone figures were kept alongside newly carved ones, so seventeenth- and eighteenth-century tomb statuary stands side by side.

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