Global Hostel

Myeong-dong & Jung-gu


While its facade resembles a design lifted from the pages of an architectural magazine, the rooms themselves are fairly plain, though its common areas are slick and modern.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Myeong-dong & Jung-gu attractions

1. Seoul Animation Center

0.17 MILES

Up the hill on the way to the cable car you’ll find this museum and cinema devoted to cartoons and animation from Korea and beyond. It's part of a whole…

2. Waryongmyo

0.25 MILES

Along the Namsan Northern Circuit, a pedestrian path that snakes for 3km from the lower cable-car station to the National Theater, you’ll find the…

3. Namdaemun Market

0.34 MILES

You could spend all day in this swarming night-and-day market and not see it at all. The largest market in Korea, each section has hundreds of stalls,…

4. Myeong-dong Catholic Cathedral

0.36 MILES

Go inside this elegant, red- and grey-brick Gothic-style cathedral, consecrated in 1898, to admire the vaulted ceiling and stained-glass windows. The…

5. Bank of Korea Money Museum

0.36 MILES

Built in 1912, and an outstanding example of Japanese colonial architecture, the old Bank of Korea now houses a reasonably interesting exhibition on the…

6. Bongsudae

0.48 MILES

Near the summit of Namsan you can see the Bongsudae, a smoke-signal communications system used for 500 years to notify the central government of urgent…

7. Ahn Jung-geun Memorial Hall

0.49 MILES

In a striking contemporary building on the west flank of Namsan, this well-presented museum is dedicated to Korean independence fighter Ahn Jung-guen. Ahn…

8. Namsangol Hanok Village

0.51 MILES

Located in a park at the foot of Namsan, this peaceful village is a wonderful spot to encounter traditional Korean culture. It features five differing…