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Try TALCHUM, the Korean traditional theatrical mask dance

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⚠️ This is a private experience reserved only for you (and your group).
⚠️ A 5% discount will be added for each additional reservation.

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Price90€170€240€300€350€390€420€

Program

  1. Meet an instructor who is a specialist of the theatrical mask dance
  2. Watch and follow the moves of the instructor
  3. Learn about the history and characteristics of the dance
  4. Look at handmade masks and multicolor outfits worn in actual performances
  5. Take a souvenir photo with the instructor
  6. Share a meal with Seba

Where & when

  • 📍 Meet at Baekseok station, line 3, exit ??? (click here for a subway map)
  • 📅 days ??? except on legal holidays
  • 🕙 From ??? pm until ??? pm

What is included

  • ✅ The experience fee
  • ✅ The guiding service in English & translation from Korean
  • ✅ A meal with Seba in a selected restaurant according to your diet

What is not included

  • ❌ Your transportation fees

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(translated from French)

Try TAEKKYEON, the Korean traditional MMA

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  • Front pushing kick (1938)
  • Pushing front kick
  • Showing children doing Taekkyeon and Ssireum in the 18th century.
  • Twist kick
  • Photo of kids doing Taekkyeon (1890)

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⚠️ This is a private experience reserved only for you (and your group).
⚠️ A 5% discount will be added for each additional reservation.

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Price90€170€240€300€350€390€420€

Program

  1. Visit the most prominent traditional outdoor training circle of Taekkyeon in Seoul where you will try the rhythmical dance-like steps of this ancient fighting sport
  2. Touch the “Battle rock” where warriors were meditating before going to war
  3. Sweat with training, opposition games and sparring (try or watch) in a Taekkyeon school
  4. Share a meal with Seba

Where & when

  • 📍 Meet at Gyeongbokgung station, line 3, exit 2 (click here for a subway map)
  • 📅 days ??? except on legal holidays
  • 🕙 From ??? pm until ??? pm

What is included

  • ✅ The experience fee
  • ✅ The guiding service in English & translation from Korean
  • ✅ A meal with Seba in a selected restaurant according to your diet

What is not included

  • ❌ Your transportation fees

Feedback

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Having benefited from Jean Sébastien’s advice and guidance in April in Seoul, I can only recommend him. 👍

— Vincent R.
(translated from French)

Try GUKGUNG, the Korean traditional archery

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  • Archers by Kim Hong-do (19th century)
  • Korean archery targets, 145m away from the shooters

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⚠️ This is a private experience reserved only for you (and your group).
⚠️ A 5% discount will be added for each additional reservation.

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Price90€170€240€300€350€390€420€

Program

  1. Watch the Korean archers shoot from 145 meters away the target
  2. Visit the museum of archery
  3. Learn about handling and shooting the bow
  4. Shoot the target from 8 meters away (due to security reasons the shooting at 145 m is not accessible to beginners)
  5. Take a souvenir photo with your bow
  6. Have a meal with Seba

Where & when

  • 📍 Meet at Gyeongbokgung station, line 3, exit 2 (click here for a subway map)
  • 📅 Thursday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday except on legal holidays (and winter time for the morning session)
  • 🕙 From 2:00 pm until 7:00 pm (or 9:00 am – 1:00 pm on Friday morning)

What is included

  • ✅ The experience fee
  • ✅ The guiding service in English & translation from Korean
  • ✅ A meal with Seba in a selected restaurant according to your diet

What is not included

  • ❌ Your transportation fees

Feedback

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Having benefited from Jean Sébastien’s advice and guidance in April in Seoul, I can only recommend him. 👍

— Vincent R.
(translated from French)

Watch a traditional wrestling competition

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Intro

⏳ This is a 1 or 2 day experience. Go watch a competition of Ssireum and enjoy the traditional style of one of probably the most ancient fighting sport of Korea.

Competition calendar

 

ℹ️ The calendar only shows6 months. Contact us to know the later dates.

1-day experience

  • 📍 Morning pickup at your hotel
  • 🚅 Travel (by train or coach bus)
  • 🤼‍♂️ Watch the competition
  • 🍜 Lunch
  • 🤼‍♂️ Watch more of the competition or 📸 visit the region
  • 🍜 Dinner
  • 🚅 Travel back to Seoul
  • 📍 Guiding back to your hotel

2-day experience

1st day

En mode “Cheon-cheon-hi” (lento)

  • 📍 Morning pickup at your hotel
  • 🚅 Travel (by train or coach bus)
  • 🤼‍♂️ Watch the competition
  • 🍜 Lunch
  • 🤼‍♂️ Watch more of the competition or 📸 visit the region
  • 🍜 Dinner
  • 🌙 Night at destination

2nd day

  • 🥐 Breakfast
  • 🤼‍♂️ Watch the competition or 📸 visit the region
  • 🍜 Lunch
  • 🤼‍♂️ Watch more of the competition or 📸 visit the region
  • 🍜 Dinner
  • 🚅 Travel back to Seoul
  • 📍 Guiding back to your hotel

Rates

⚠️ Private group for you and your friends only.

1 day2 days
350 EUR

Price for 1 person.
Add 50 EUR for each additional traveler		650 EUR

Price for 1 person.
Add 50 EUR for each additional traveler

What is included

  • ✅ The private guiding in English with translation of Korean
  • ✅ The hotel night.s and transportation outside of Seoul
  • ✅ The entrance tickets
  • ❌ The meals (about 20~30 EUR by person & by day)

Try SSIREUM, the Korean traditional wrestling

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  • Training on the sand
  • Wrestling with the coach
  • Two wrestlers, by Kim Hong-do (19th c.)
  • Wall painting of two wrestlers (Ji’an, 5th century)

Rates

⚠️ This is a private experience reserved only for you (and your group).
⚠️ A 5% discount will be added for each additional reservation.

People1234567
Price90€170€240€300€350€390€420€

Program

  1. Join the Korean wrestlers on the sand arena
  2. Wear the Ssireum belt
  3. Follow the warm-up routine
  4. Learn the basic stance and some offensive & defensive techniques
  5. Engage in a competitive yet friendly match typical of the Korean way to test yourself !
  6. Take a souvenir photo in the end
  7. Take a shower to remove the sand from your hair (if needed)
  8. Have a meal with Seba

Where & when

  • 📍 Meet at 4:00 pm at Yangwon station, line Gyeongui Jungang, exit 2 (click here for a subway map)
  • 📅 Thursday afternoons. Except on legal & school holidays
  • ⏳ Session duration : 90 min

What is included

  • ✅ The experience fee
  • ✅ The guiding service in English & translation from Korean
  • ✅ A meal with Seba in a selected restaurant according to your diet

What is not included

  • ❌ Your transportation fees

Feedback

Published on Google Maps

Having benefited from Jean Sébastien’s advice and guidance in April in Seoul, I can only recommend him. 👍

— Vincent R.
(translated from French)