Gwangnaru Safety Experience Center (광나루안전체험관)

8.5Km 2025-03-29

238, Neungdong-ro, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul
+82-2-2049-4061

Gwangnaru Safety Experience Center was founded in 1999 after two fire accidents in which many children lost their lives. These tragedies emphasized the necessity of establishing a disaster training center for common citizens.

Gwangnaru Safety Experience Center is a three-story building with one basement floor, covering an area of more than 5,000 m². The basement floor includes a small theater. The first floor is set up for natural disaster training and consists of an orientation hall, storm simulation training room, earthquake simulation room, computer tests on fire safety knowledge and others. The second floor is a place for artificial catastrophe training. It consists of a smoke escape training room, fire extinguisher training room, first-aid (CPR) training room and practice place for calling 119. The third floor is used for rescue training and consists of a rescue training room, screening room, training for professionals and video examples of the five biggest disasters that have occurred in Seoul. Overall there are about 20 training areas established, so citizens can experience the imitation of a disaster by themselves and learn easily and in an interesting way how to cope with a disaster.

Ktown4u COEX (케이타운포유 코엑스)

8.5Km 2024-06-11

513 Yeongdong-daero, Gangnam-gu, Seoul

Ktown4u COEX is a K-culture complex located in the bustling COEX district. The center offers everything a hallyu fan could wish for, from K-pop to beauty, fashion, and even K-lifestyle. Each of the three floors focuses on a different way to experience K-culture, with the second floor offering sales of diverse goods, the third floor operating as an academy for learning K-pop dances and songs, and the fourth floor being an event space to facilitate communication between fans and artists.

K-Vegan Beauty Fair (K-비건뷰티페어)

8.5Km 2025-07-11

513 Yeongdong-daero, Gangnam-gu, Seoul
+82-2-761-2586

K-vegan beauty fair provides visitors an opportunity to explore products from various vegan and climate-friendly beauty brands and participate in different events throughout the exhibition.

Gourmet Eat Gangnam (제2회 고메 잇 강남)

8.5Km 2025-11-14

513 Yeongdong-daero, Gangnam-gu, Seoul
+82-70-7734-7796

Marking its second anniversary, this year's Gourmet Eat Gangnam highlights the theme of gourmet festival, featuring a chef cooking show with 100 different menu items. The event takes place from November 4 to 16 at the plaza in front of COEX’s East Gate. As an F&B festival at the heart of the city, it offers visitors the opportunity to enjoy delicious food and drinks while engaging in a variety of activities.

COEX Aquarium (코엑스 아쿠아리움)

8.5Km 2024-07-17

513 Yeongdong-daero, Gangnam-gu, Seoul
+82-2-700-7200

The COEX Aquarium comprises 183 display tanks and 90 breeding tanks with 3,500 tons of water volume, making it a large-scale aquarium. It houses 40,000 sea creatures of 650 different species, exhibited in 16 themed zones. In particular, the highest number of sharks and the largest variety of species in Korea are living in this aquarium. Over 20 rest areas located throughout the aquarium, as well as an open-top water tank releasing anions make this tourist site in the heart of Gangnam a perfect healing place for local and international visitors.

COEX Artium (코엑스아티움)

8.5Km 2022-07-04

513, Yeongdong-daero, Gangnam-gu, Seoul
+82-2-6000-0114

Established by Korea International Trade Association and COEX, COEX Artium is a spacious muscial performance hall with over 800 seats. High quality and diverse musical or theatrical performances are held year-round to satisfy both Korean and international visitors. Foreign language services (English, Japanese, and Chinese) are also available. It has the Trade Promotion Exhibition Hall. Near COEX Artium are many performance halls such as COEX Art Hall (184 seats), Auditorium (1058 seats), Convention Hall (7,000 seats), ang Grand Conference Room (450 seats), making the COEX area a main place for cultural and musical performances in Seoul. Visitors may want to visit the COEX website (www.coex.co.kr) to find out information on various performances.

Starfield Library (별마당도서관)

8.5Km 2022-07-27

513, Yeongdong-daero, Gangnam-gu, Seoul
+82-2-6002-5300

Located in the middle of COEX Central Plaza, Starfield Library offers visitors a perfect reading space. The two-story library has 13-meter-tall bookshelfs and soft lights to ease the eyes as well as various types of tables with electric plugs for those with laptops. With more than 50,000 books ranging from literature to hobbies as well as over 400 types of magazines, visitors are welcome to find pleasure in reading and relax.

21 Century Hospital (서울21세기병원)

8.5Km 2026-01-02

39 Seochojungang-ro, Seocho-gu, Seoul

Opened in 1999, 21st Century Hospital has a long-standing medical staff, most of whom have worked for the hospital for many years.
This safety has attracted many patients to our hospital.

Convention and Exhibition Center (COEX) (한국종합무역센터(코엑스))

8.5Km 2022-12-16

513, Yeongdong-daero, Gangnam-gu, Seoul
+82-2-6000-0114

The Convention and Exhibition Center (COEX) was established on September 7, 1988 as a large-scale business town for domestic and overseas businessmen. Business operations can be managed easily as assembly halls, exhibition halls, the Korean City Air Terminal, InterContinental Hotel, and Hyundai Department Store are gathered in one spot.

A 57-story building contains 20 trade organizations including the Korea International Trade Association (KITA), as well as 250 companies and financial institutions. Convention and Exhibition, which houses three specialized exhibition halls and permanent exhibition halls, is composed of a four-story main building and three-story extension.

An underground passageway connects COEX Mall, completed in 2000, and Bongeunsa Temple to the north with Samseong Station (Seoul Subway Line 2). Additional facilities for culture, pleasure, and shopping make COEX a must-visit attraction.

Starfield COEX Mall (스타필드 코엑스몰)

8.5Km 2025-12-08

513 Yeongdong-daero, Gangnam-gu, Seoul
+82-2-6002-5300

Starfield COEX Mall, located at the center of Seoul, leads in trend and culture. Combining fashion, food, culture and entertainment, the mall provides everything the visitors need. The Starfield Library offers a space to rest and entertainment with books.

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