Luxury South Korea Vacations & Tours

South Korea’s booming, boisterous capital.

One of the world’s most addictive and untouched hubs for nightlife, food, history and culture, Seoul alone is one of the best reasons to travel to this famed East Asian country. Poised between the future and its own storied past, Seoul’s jubilant architecture ricochets from impossible glass skyscrapers to the tranquility of historic Bukchon Hanok Village, and will find you tucking in to piquant mouthfuls of kimchi and tempura on the bustling streets of Hongdae, or browsing walls of contemporary art at the city’s towering Leeum museum. It is generous, endless, and unrelentingly cool.

Busan offers a sophisticated counterpoint to intense Seoul.

Here, urban energy meets coastal charm, with centuries-old temples like Haedong Yonggungsa perched dramatically above the East Sea. The city’s culinary heartbeat pulses through Jagalchi, Asia’s largest seafood market, where expert guides reveal rare delicacies and local specialties. For a more refined take on Korean spa culture, Busan’s traditional bathhouses offer intimate, tranquil alternatives to Seoul’s bustling complexes.

The country’s historic capital is a ‘museum without walls’.
Gyeonjgu offers some of South Korea’s best and most enviable hotels and makes for a quite remarkable change of pace from shuttling Seoul. Here, in this ‘museum without walls,’ temples and historic ruins scrape the skyline, while bright sprays of cherry blossom thicken the city’s plentiful branches. From the startling architecture to the exquisite food, Gyeongju’s most arresting feature is Daereungwon park, where rolling ancient green tumuli – or burial mounds – flow across the manicured grounds.