Seoul Botanic Park — Attraction in Seoul

Seoul Botanical Garden is a botanical garden within a park where botanical gardens and parks are organically combined, and it is a special space where you can feel the comfort of nature and plants in the city.

Seoul Botanical Garden is largely divided into four zones (Open Forest, Lake Garden, Wetland Garden, and Theme Garden), and each zone has its own unique characteristics, allowing you to feel four different colors in the botanical garden. In particular, the exhibition greenhouse located within the theme garden is the world's only concave plate-shaped greenhouse, and it exhibits native plants from 12 cities in the tropical and Mediterranean regions, allowing you to experience the unique plant culture of each climate zone.

Among the Open Forest, Lake Garden, Wetland Garden, and Theme Garden, only the Theme Garden costs 5,000 won for adults, and the rest of the gardens are free. Except for the Theme Garden, the rest of the gardens do not have separate entrances, so you can conveniently access and use them.

In particular, Everyone can easily find colorful Korean flowers. I hope you will take a break while appreciating the beautiful flowers of various shapes and colors. The botanical garden is a great place to relax, with its wide lake park, lawn, and...

🌿 Overview & Layout

Covering approximately 504,000 m² (about 70 soccer fields), Seoul Botanic Park is divided into four principal zones: the Open Forest, Theme Garden (including the Botanic Center greenhouse and Magok Cultural Hall), Lake Garden, and Wetland Garden .

Open Forest, Lake Garden, and Wetland Garden are free and open 24/7.

The Theme Garden (including the greenhouse) requires a ticket and has set hours—typically 09:30–18:00 from March to October, and 09:30–17:00 in winter. They close on Mondays .

🌸 The Botanic Center & Greenhouse

Inside the Theme Garden sits the Botanic Center: a striking flower‑shaped greenhouse composed of ETFE panels and triangular glass façades .

It houses over 3,100 plant species (with plans to reach around 8,000), each labeled and organized by regions like Mediterranean or Tropical zones .

The Tropical Zone features orchids, palms, waterfalls, skywalk paths, and even baobab and Victoria water lilies.

The Mediterranean Zone showcases olive trees, cacti, succulents, representing dry‑climate flora .

A scenic skywalk observatory deck allows visitors to look down into the canopy from above, and there’s also the historic Magok Cultural Hall, a restored 1928 Japanese-era pump station now serving as an...

Committed a day to this, needed an hour or so. To be honest, one of the most boring gardens I’ve ever ‘explored’. Most of the plants are in mediocre shape and there aren’t any particularly beautiful or special plants or flowers.

The inside conservatory is split into two parts: Tropical & Mediterranean. In the Mediterranean section are a ton of cacti from the USA and plants from New Zealand and Australia as well as some plants from other far flung places, by very definition NOT in the Mediterranean.

Poorly maintained and poorly organized. Compare this to other botanical gardens in neighboring countries and it is a joke. If you want an afternoon out wandering around average plants then it’s not bad, but if you’re expecting to see some beautiful or special plants you’re better off exploring google or finding another garden somewhere...