Bulguksa and Seokguram: How to Check Admission and Opening Hours

Gyeongju's per-attraction admission table gives adult, youth and child prices and a parking charge for each place. Where there is nothing to pay, it says so: the cell reads free.

Bunhwangsa is a temple too, and it is free, and the table says so. Only three cells hold a link instead of a number: Bulguksa, Seokguram and Girimsa.

The city writes its own reason underneath the table — that admission fees and opening times for the temples (Bulguksa, Seokguram, Bunhwangsa, Girimsa) and the museums are subject to change and should be checked again.

Reading the page source for where "see details" actually goes:

Bulguksa  ->  http://www.bulguksa.or.kr/bbs/content.php?co_id=application
Seokguram ->  http://seokguram.org/bbs/content.php?co_id=price
Girimsa   ->  http://www.kirimsa.net/page1_ib.html

All three are http, not https. All three are unencrypted connections, and two of them refuse a connection over https altogether.

Ordinarily that is nobody's problem. But on the kind of shared network a cafe or an airport runs — one that intercepts plain connections and substitutes its own login page — these links do not open, and someone checking the admission price gets the login screen instead. If that happens, try them again on a different connection.

This table once carried the two prices as numbers. They are no longer drawn on screen, but they remain in the page source, commented out — the old rows, beginning at 6,000 won for an adult.

A browser does not render comments, so a visitor never sees them. The removal is real; it was done by commenting rather than by deleting.

So a search result or a saved copy may still surface the figure 6,000 won. That is not what the city publishes now — the cell that actually renders on the page carries no number at all.

The group threshold differs for these two as well. Gyeongju counts a group as 30 or more — with a single parenthesised exception: Bulguksa and Seokguram are 20 or more.

If entry to both is free, a group threshold has nothing left to do. It is a rule from the era when there was a charge, still standing — the same kind of mark as the commented-out 6,000.

Both open at nine in the morning, and three seasonal times are posted — 18:00 from March to September, 17:30 in February and October, 17:00 from November to January.

Those are last admission, not closing. Neither publishes a time at which it shuts. So arriving at 16:50 against a posted "until 17:00" gets you in, and how long you may then stay is not something the published information answers.

Neither admits pets.

The times and prices in this section were checked at the operators on 18 August 2026. Both sites are http-only and could not be re-read since, so check the two addresses above before going.