Seoul offers a wide array of outstanding spa facilities to improve tourists' travel experiences. Luxurious spa facilities can often be found near luxury brand shops.

Public Transportation and Travelling

• 1 hour and 11 minutes by car from Incheon International Airport to Seoul City Hall
  [public transportation: limousine buses]
• 48 minutes by car from Gimpo International Airport to Seoul City Hall
  [public transportation: subways and buses]
• Traveling among attractions: by bus or subway

Route Introduction

Hotel Spas

Hotel spas are known for using high quality spa item. Besides, hotels are convenient for both spas and lodging. Top hotel spas include Guerlain Spa of Shilla Hotel (with therapists trained in Paris' cosmetic powerhouse, Guerlain), Marquis Thermal Spa of JW Marriott (offering an organic spa for the first time in Korea and skin care programs), and Away Spa of W Seoul-Walkerhill (one of the largest spas in Korea where customers can enjoy both the spa and exercising).

[Lunch] Restaurants within hotels

Hotels offer top notch restaurant experiences, offering Korean food, Western food, buffets, and grills. Shilla Hotel's The Park View is known for its luxury buffet, while Continental specializes in French food. JW Marriott's JW's Grill offers fusion dishes using Asian and Western ingredients. W Seoul-Wakerhill's Kitchen is known for cozy, comfortable restaurant experiences.

Nail Care and Skin Care

Hotel spas also offer intensive nail care and skin care services. Guerlan Spa of Shilla Hotel offers diverse facial, hand, and foot treatment programs. JW Marriott's collagen whitening programs and W Seoul-Walkerhill's facial treatment services are also famous.

Hair Salons in Cheongdam-dong

Cheongdam-dong is known for being a popular fashion district in Gangnam and setting fashion trends. Popular Korean fashion trends in clothing, accessories, makeup, and hairstyles originate here. Top notch services and chic styles attract many fashion leaders year-round. Jenney House, Ra Beauty Core, Kimchungkyung Performer, Void by Parkchul, and Jungsaemmool Inspiration are popular hair salons for Korean entertainers.

[Dinner] Dosan Park

Near Donsan Park is a fascinating array of restaurants with colorful interior designs. Better known restaurants include Gorilla in the Kitchen (run by Korean superstar Bae Yong-joon), The Kitchen Salvatore Cuomo (offering pizza as it is prepared in Napoli, Italy), and Zen Hide Away (offering Italian and Asian fusion food).

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This route offers mud treatments known for excellent beauty care as well as touring beautiful arboretum and spa experiences overlooking the sea. Give yourself time to heal your mind and body!

Public Transportation and Travelling

• Three hours from Seoul to Boryeong Express Bus Terminal
• By bus from Boryeong Express Bus Terminal to Boryeong Mud Skincare Center
• Traveling among attractions: by rental car or taxi
  (traveling by car is a good option since there is some distance between attractions)

Route Introduction

Boryeong Mud Skincare Center

Visitors can experience Boryeong mud which is considered to have a better quality than the mud around Dead Sea in Israel. The center offers mud collected from Daecheon Beach and nearby coastal areas through which visitors can enjoy mud self-massages, a mud sauna, and mud aroma bathing. Boryeong mud boasts rich minerals that boost the skin’s vitality and removes bacteria, effective for trauma therapy.

[Lunch] Taean Seafood

Taean, home to ten small ports, offers a variety of fresh seafood at reasonable prices (including soft shell clams, spotty belly greenling, sea cucumbers, and turban shells). In particular, Anheung Port is a main port and attraction in Taean thanks to fresh seafood available year-round, attracting a large number of visitors. Naturally, it is surrounded by many restaurants offering sashimi. Baeksajang Port and Sinjindo Port are also popular tour courses for tourists visiting Anmyeondo Island.

Chollipo Arboretum

Near Mallipo Beach is Chollipo Arboretum, home to 10,300 plants collected from 60 countries (including magnolia). Consisting of seven sections, the arboretum classifies and manages plants according to their natural environments.

Resom Ocean Castle

This luxury resort is an ideal spot for lodging, marine spots, and spas. The Spa Zone (20,000 m2) offers a mud beauty spa, chocolate and honey massaging, and a sulfur seawater sauna. Outdoor Sunset Spa and Bade Pool offers water treatment while letting visitors overlook the sea. In front of the resort are water sports facilities (wind surfing, water skiing, and wake boarding); experts offer trainings as well. Visitors can enjoy sea fishing on rocks or boats.

[Dinner] Korean Beef Dish

Korean beef in Hongseong, just one hour from Resom Ocean Castle, is known for its exquisite taste. While Hongseong produces fresh seafood thanks to its proximity to the sea, the area produces the best Korean beef as well. The tenderness, rich stocks, and chewiness of Hongseong beef are second to none. Hongseong Hanu (Korean Beef) Village, Hanubon, and Hongseong Hanu Market sell Hongseong beef, attracting many visitors.

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This route offers beauty care counseling services on Seomyeon Medical Street (a major area for medical tourism) as well as shopping for high quality ginseng and spa experiences. The route ends with Busan's local food. Great food and skin care services will add pleasure to travel experiences.

Public Transportation and Travelling

• 2 hours and 40 minutes by KTX from Seoul to Busan Station
• By subway from Busan Station to Seomyeon Medical Street
• Traveling among attractions: by bus or subway

* Free Shuttle Bus Operating for Individual International Tourists (January 1 - Dec. 31, 2012)

Route Introduction

Seomyeon Medical Street

This street around Bujeon-dong (Jin-gu, Busan) boasts a heavy concentration of medical facilities, one of the largest in Korea. Over 150 facilities offer top notch plastic surgeons, dermatologists, dentists, eye doctors, and doctors of oriental medicine. In addition, the area is home to numerous hair salons. Visitors can find customized tourism that includes medical treatment, skin care, and shopping all at once here. Over 70% of LASIK surgeries in Busan are performed here as well. Many international tourists come to the street to receive LASIK surgery.

Bujeon Ginseng Market

Located within Bujeon Market, it specializes in selling ginseng. Visitors can purchase high quality ginseng at reasonable prices, often 10 to 50% off regular prices. Over 120 shops offer a wide array of ginseng items including undried ginseng, dried ginseng, ginseng capsules, ginseng extracts, and ginseng powders. Near the market are a slew of shops dealing with medicinal herbs. Health supplements can be purchased all at once here.

[Lunch] Dongnae-pajeon and Milmyeon

Dongnae-pajeon (seafood and green onion pancake) used to be a gift that Dongnae magistrates sent to kings. Fresh seafood, beef, and green onion are combined to produce this sweet, delicious dish. Another variety of Dongnae-pajeon is Dongnae Halmae-pajeon, considered the best of Pajeon (green onion pancake). Milmyeon is another popular local dish offering a cool meat broth with flour noodles. It is a must in the summer. Gayamilmyeon and Gaegeummilmyeon are better known restaurants offering Milmyeon in Busan.

Centum City Spa Land

This spa facility combines traditional Korean bathing and Japanese-style bathing. Along with exotic interior designs and a glass dome, it offers a bathing section, sauna section, and rest area. Visitors can also overlook a waterslide park nearby from the facility. Overall, there are 22 bathing areas and 13 sauna rooms including Turkey-style Hamam Room, Body Sound Room offering meditation music, and Wave Dream Room.

[Dinner] Busan Bokguk

In Busan, Bokguk (puffer fish soup with watercress and mung bean sprouts) is considered the best hangover soup. Prepared with delicious side dishes, the soup invigorates one's energy. The restaurant Geumsu Bokguk offered the first Bokguk in Korea; it also serves diverse puffer dishes.

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