Olive Young Sale 2026: Dates, Tax Refund & Korea Trip Timing
Most people plan a Korea trip and then find out there's a sale on. A measurable number of shoppers do it the other way around: in 2025, more than 6,200 foreign visitors entered Korea three or more times to shop Olive Young's sale weeks, according to a joint analysis by Olive Young and refund operator Global Tax Free. The same disclosure reported that the number of foreign customers who shopped both the March and June 2026 sales rose nearly elevenfold against the same period three years earlier, and that foreigners returning to Korea twice or more a year for the sales have roughly doubled every year since 2023.
The reason is arithmetic rather than enthusiasm. Olive Young runs four large sales a year, each about seven days long, in late February/early March, late May/early June, late August/early September and late November/early December. Land inside one of those windows and the shelf price drops, the 1+1 sets appear, and the foreigner tax refund comes off on top of the already-reduced price. Land one week either side of it and you pay full retail for the identical basket. This guide is about the calendar, not the products — if you want to know what to put in the basket, we covered that separately in Olive Young Top 20: What Koreans Are Actually Buying (2026). Here we deal with the harder question: when to fly.
A flagship on this scale and a neighbourhood branch carry the same name and not the same shop. Which one you walk into decides what is still on the shelf — more on that further down.
Timing gets you the sale price. Knowing where locals actually shop gets you the rest.
Even during sale week, tourists routinely overpay for products Seoul residents buy 20–30% cheaper elsewhere — different store, different format, same product. Our K-Beauty Shopping Guide (2026 Edition) is the companion to this post: this page tells you when to arrive, the guide tells you how to buy once you're standing in the aisle. Use both and the sale week stops being the only time you save money.
The Olive Young Sale Calendar: What Is Confirmed and What Is Not
Olive Young's big sale is called Olyoung Sale (올영세일). It runs four times a year for roughly seven days. The March, June and autumn 2026 windows are all on the record. Olive Young confirmed the autumn dates on 28 August 2026, two days before the sale opens.
| Sale | Dates | Status |
| Spring 2026 | Mar 1 – Mar 7 | Confirmed — ran as announced |
| Summer 2026 | May 31 – Jun 6 | Confirmed — ran as announced |
| Autumn 2026 | Aug 30 – Sep 5 | Confirmed — announced 28 Aug |
| Winter 2026 | Late Nov – early Dec | Not yet announced |
Olive Young published the autumn date on 28 August 2026: Sunday 30 August to Saturday 5 September, seven days. That is exactly where four years of its own behaviour pointed:
- 2022: September 1 – 7
- 2023: August 31 – September 6 (contemporaneously reported; Olive Young's public archive does not reach back this far)
- 2024: August 30 – September 5
- 2025: August 29 – September 4
Three of the four 2026 sales are now on the record. Only the winter window is still open.
Every autumn sale in that run is seven days long and straddles the August–September boundary. Ahead of the announcement, two readings of that pattern pointed in different directions. The series had moved one day earlier every year (Sep 1 → Aug 31 → Aug 30 → Aug 29), which extrapolated to August 28 – September 3. But both 2026 sales up to that point had opened on a Sunday (March 1 and May 31), which pointed instead to August 30 – September 5. The Sunday reading was the correct one. That is worth remembering for the winter sale, the one 2026 window still unannounced.
Four past years and two competing readings. The Sunday reading — August 30 to September 5 — is the one that landed.
The second thing worth knowing is when the announcement lands. Olive Young confirms its sale only one to two days before it opens — the 2025 autumn sale was announced on August 28 for an August 29 start; the spring 2026 sale was announced on February 27 for a March 1 start. This is late by international-traveller standards and it is the single most important operational fact in this article: you will almost certainly have to book your flights before the dates are official.
Updated 29 August 2026 — the autumn sale is confirmed. Olive Young announced it on 28 August: it runs Sunday 30 August to Saturday 5 September, seven days. The announcement adds three coupon drops a day, extra discounts that scale with basket size, and a rotating daily deal. The only 2026 window still unannounced is winter, which on four years of pattern should land in the last days of November.
To confirm the dates yourself, or to watch for the winter announcement, check these three places, in this order:
- Korean newsroom — corp.oliveyoung.com/ko/news. This is the primary source and it moves first. Use your browser's translate function. If you are shopping in physical stores in Korea, these are your dates.
- The Korean app or mobile site — the Sale tab. The banner goes live the moment the event starts.
- Global mall — global.oliveyoung.com. Note that the global online sale is a separate event from the Korean in-store sale. In 2026 they have run on the same dates, but they are announced through different channels and there is no guarantee they align. If you are flying to Korea, follow the Korean dates.
How the Discount Actually Works
“Up to 70% off” is the headline on every sale poster, and it is the most misread number in Korean retail. It is a ceiling applied to a selected subset of items, not a store-wide rate. Nothing about the sale reduces every price in the shop by a flat percentage.
What actually happens is this. Olive Young discounts roughly 20,000 to 30,000 individual products, each at its own rate. A handful of loss-leaders reach the 70% headline. Most sit far below it. The real value is concentrated in three places:
- Per-item event pricing on several thousand SKUs across every category — skincare, suncare, masks, hair, health, tools.
- 1+1 and 2+1 bundles, which are the genuine bargains and the reason locals queue. These are effectively 50% and 67% off, and they cluster on sunscreen, sheet masks and lip tints — exactly the categories foreign shoppers buy in volume.
- Daily brand days and flash deals, where a different brand takes an extra markdown each day of the week. If you want one specific brand, this is worth checking daily rather than shopping once.
One fixture, four different rates — 25%, 20%, 21%, 30%. This is what “up to 70%” actually looks like on the shelf: every product priced on its own.
The bundles are where the money is — 5+1 and 10+1 packs, plus ONLY 올리브영 exclusive sets the global mall does not carry.
And it is not only skincare. The same per-item pricing runs across grooming, hair, body and health.
Bags on the floor at the counter — and most of what is in them carries an X2 or 기획 set tag, not a single-item price. The bundles are where the discount actually lands.
Then there is a coupon layer on top, and this is where international shoppers hit a wall. Olive Young distributes coupon packs worth up to roughly ₩34,000–₩40,000 offline depending on the sale, plus first-come-first-served daily coupons worth up to a further ₩20,000, and app coupons and cart coupons can be stacked with each other and on top of the sale price. But redeeming a store coupon means showing a barcode from the Korean app, and the Korean app requires a Korean membership.
Plan on shopping as a non-member. The Korean Olive Young account runs on CJ ONE identity verification, which requires a Korean-issued mobile number in your own name and, in practice, a foreign residence card. A short-term visitor has neither. The Global mall membership is free and takes only an email address, but its own official policy states that it applies to the Global Mall “excluding local Olive Young stores in the Republic of Korea” — it earns you nothing at a Myeongdong register. Some blogs claim you can register in-store with a passport; we could not verify this against any official Olive Young source and would not build a budget around it.
The good news is that the shelf price is the shelf price. Event pricing and 1+1 sets ring up for everyone, member or not. What you lose is the extra stacked coupon layer, which is real but is the smaller share of the discount.
One more layer that is foreigner-facing: payment-method promotions. Olive Young runs periodic tie-ups with UnionPay, Alipay, WeChat Pay and WOWPASS. In early 2026, for instance, UnionPay carried 10% off — capped at ₩20,000 — on purchases over ₩100,000 chain-wide through March 19, while a separate Don Quijote membership tie-up ran at 14 tourist-district stores. Both have since expired, and neither of the 28 August announcements of the autumn sale mentions a payment-method tie-up. These promotions are often signposted in store rather than in the press release, so ask at the counter. These rotate constantly, so do not plan around a specific rate. Check the signage at the door and ask a staff member which payment methods carry a promotion that week.
How to Actually Pick Your Travel Dates
Working backwards from the pattern above, here is the practical booking sequence.
1. Anchor on the turn of the month, not the middle of it. The autumn and summer sales typically begin in the last days of the preceding month, and the spring and winter ones in the first days. A trip planned for “mid-September” will miss the autumn sale entirely — the 2026 edition ends on 5 September. This is the most common and most expensive mistake.
2. Build in a two-day buffer at each end. Because the exact dates are announced only a day or two ahead and can shift year to year, a trip that arrives on the projected day one and departs on the projected day seven has no tolerance for error. Arriving two days before the earliest plausible start and leaving two days after the latest plausible end costs you a little in accommodation and removes the entire risk.
3. Don't make day one your only shopping day. Day one is when locals queue before opening and when the highest-demand items clear the shelves. Day two or three of a seven-day sale gives you the same prices with less contention on everything except the genuinely limited items.
The price is identical all week. The crowd and the shelf are not.
4. Put the shopping day mid-week and earlier in the day if you can. Weekend traffic at tourist-district stores is in a different category from weekday traffic, and the difference is large enough to change how long a basket takes.
5. If your trip is short, shop early in the trip, not late. The immediate tax refund is capped per trip (see below) and if you hit the cap you are pushed onto the slower airport process. Front-loading the shopping also leaves you time to return to a second branch for anything that was out of stock.
6. Be realistic about waiting for the announcement. The autumn 2026 dates are now fixed, so this applies to the winter sale: Olive Young confirms only one to two days ahead, and on most long-haul routes waiting for that confirmation costs more in airfare than the sale saves.
Stacking the Tax Refund on Top of the Sale
The tax refund is the second discount and it applies to the already-discounted price. For a foreign visitor this is the closest thing to free money in Korean retail, and the rules are frequently misreported.
The thresholds below come from Korea's official tourism and government sources. You will find blogs quoting ₩30,000 as the minimum — that figure is out of date. It was lowered to ₩15,000, and the immediate-refund caps were doubled at the same time, effective 2024.
| Rule | Current figure |
| Minimum purchase, per receipt | ₩15,000 (not ₩30,000) |
| Immediate in-store refund, per transaction | Under ₩1,000,000 |
| Immediate in-store refund, total per trip | Under ₩5,000,000 |
| Eligibility | Foreign nationals staying in Korea under 6 months |
| Overseas Koreans | Stricter rule — resident abroad 2+ years, in Korea under 3 months |
| Export deadline | Goods must leave Korea within 3 months of purchase |
The refund pays a flat won amount per bracket, so the effective rate sawtooths.
The procedure at the register. Hand over your passport before the cashier finishes ringing up. The VAT is deducted at the point of sale and you pay the lower amount — there is no form to file and nothing to claim later. Three practical points:
- Bring the physical passport. A photo on your phone or a photocopy is generally refused; the passport scanner needs the real document. This is the most common reason travellers lose the refund at Olive Young.
- You get back roughly 3–7%, not the full 10%. The refund runs on fixed brackets rather than a flat percentage, so the effective rate is worst just under a bracket edge — a ₩29,999 purchase refunds only ₩1,000, or 3.3%. Consolidating purchases into one larger receipt generally does better than splitting them.
- Confirm the branch processes it in-store. Stores in designated global tourism districts offer immediate refund as standard. Outside those districts it is not guaranteed, and you may instead be issued a slip to process at the airport. If the instant deduction matters to you, ask before you queue.
At the airport. If the refund was already deducted in store, no further action is normally required — you walk to your gate. You can, however, be selected for a spot check, so keep purchases in their packaging and your receipts accessible until you have cleared security. If you exceed the ₩5,000,000 trip cap, anything beyond it has to go through the airport refund process instead. At Incheon, staffed counters run roughly 07:00–22:00 in Terminal 1 and 07:00–21:00 in Terminal 2; self-service kiosks are available in both terminals, with a 24-hour kiosk in Terminal 2 near gates 250/253. If you are on a red-eye, plan for the kiosk, not the counter.
Combined effect: a ₩100,000 basket at a 30% sale discount comes to ₩70,000, and the in-store refund on that takes off a further ₩3,000 — about ₩67,000 all in, against ₩100,000 for the same basket a week earlier. That is the arithmetic behind those repeat trips.
What Sells Out, and What to Do When It Does
Stockouts during sale week are not a rumour and they are not evenly distributed. Two things drive them: 1+1 items priced to move, and the specific products that international shoppers have collectively decided on.
The categories that clear fastest are sunscreen, sheet masks (tea tree and heartleaf/eoseongcho formulas in particular), toner pads, and whatever product went viral that quarter. Sunscreen on a 1+1 deal is the single most reliable stockout in a Korean summer sale. Popular items can be gone by the afternoon of day one, and they are frequently not restocked within the same sale period — there is limited point coming back on day four for the same item at the same branch.
Two SOLD OUT labels on one shelf. The electronic tags tell you before you reach for the box — and popular items are often not restocked inside the same sale week.
Four responses that work:
- Shop in the morning. Tourist-district flagships fill up through the afternoon, and dramatically so at weekends. Opening time on day two or three is the sweet spot.
- Look for the in-store AI kiosk. Since July 2026 Olive Young has been installing AI shopping assistant kiosks that handle chat in eight languages and do real-time stock lookup and in-store navigation — the tourist-accessible substitute for the Korean app's stock function. There is also a separate AI interpretation service covering 38 languages, by QR code or staff tablet. Both are still a pilot: Olive Young has not published which branches have them, so treat a kiosk as a bonus if you see one, not a plan.
- Ask staff to check another branch. About 40% of foreign customers already visit two or more locations on a trip. Staff can check nearby stock; a second branch fifteen minutes away is usually a better bet than a second trip to the same one.
- Buy the priority items first. Walk in with a ranked list, not a wander. Grab the two or three things you actually came for before browsing, because the browse is what costs you the 1+1 sunscreen.
Which Store to Shop, and Which to Skip
The instinct is to escape Myeongdong for a quieter branch. During sale week that instinct is half wrong, and the trade-off is worth stating plainly: outer branches are less crowded but also carry less stock. A small neighbourhood store has a genuinely thinner range, which is exactly what you do not want when the popular items are already clearing.
Range is the reason to choose a large branch. A small neighbourhood store carries a fraction of this.
The lanes run past 20 at a branch this size. Range is what you come for; this queue is what you trade for it.
The table below is operational judgement from repeat visits, not published data — Olive Young does not release per-store traffic or inventory figures.
| Store type | Crowding | Stock depth | Best for |
| Central Myeongdong Town (opened Mar 2026) | Heavy, but 22 tills absorb it | Deepest in the chain | Built for foreign shoppers — language badges, refund signage |
| Myeongdong Town (original) | Heaviest, tourist-skewed | Very deep | Full range, multilingual support, immediate refund |
| Gangnam | Local-skewed, calmer on weekday afternoons | Strong, especially skincare and dermo-cosmetics | The best crowding-to-stock ratio during sale week |
| Hongdae | Heavy, young/mixed | Good | Evening shopping; frequent payment-method promotions |
| Seongsu (concept store) | Queue to enter | Experience-focused, not volume | Browsing, not a shopping run |
| Small neighbourhood branch | Lightest | Thinnest — higher stockout risk | Topping up a short list, not a main haul |
The practical answer for most visitors is Gangnam on a weekday afternoon: local-facing enough to be navigable, large enough to hold the range. If you want the widest possible selection and will trade a crowd for it, go to Central Myeongdong Town — opened in March 2026 and purpose-built for exactly this audience.
Central Myeongdong Town is worth singling out because it was designed around the problem this article is about. It runs about 950 pyeong across three floors — the second-largest Olive Young in the country — carrying roughly 1,000 brands and 15,000 products, the deepest range in the chain. For sale week the operationally useful details are the 22 staffed checkout counters, the most of any branch, and staff wearing country-identifier badges for English, Chinese and Japanese, with tax-refund and payment signage in those languages. The original Myeongdong Town already drew about 95% of its revenue from foreign visitors; this one was built for that from the start.
Two structural points worth knowing. First, Olive Young had designated 135 stores in global tourism districts as of November 2025 — more than double the 60 of a year earlier — with multilingual shelf labels, interpretation support and immediate tax refund service. The full list is not published, so look for the signage. Second, the story is no longer Seoul-only: during the June 2026 sale, foreign sales at stores outside the greater Seoul capital region grew 72% year on year against a 45% national average. If your itinerary includes Busan, Gyeongju or Jeju, the local Olive Young is a real option and will be far calmer than anything in central Seoul.
Global Mall vs. Buying in Korea
If you cannot make the dates work, the obvious fallback is to order online and ship home. It is a worse deal than it looks, and for one group of readers the situation has changed materially.
US readers: global.oliveyoung.com no longer ships to the 50 states or Washington D.C. The site carries a notice to that effect. There is a separate US site, us.oliveyoung.com, with domestic US fulfilment — $6.95 shipping, free over $35, delivery up to about five business days to the contiguous 48 and up to nine to Alaska and Hawaii. Note that aerosols, alcohol-based products and nail polish ship ground-only to the lower 48, which covers a lot of sunscreen. Any older guide describing “Olive Young Global shipping to the US” is out of date.
For everyone else, the Global mall's free-shipping threshold is US$60 for most destinations, with delivery times that vary sharply by region:
| Destination | Free shipping over | Typical delivery |
| Germany, France, Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark | US$60 | ~5–7 days |
| United Kingdom | US$60 | ~4–5 days |
| Singapore | US$60 | ~5–6 days |
| Hong Kong | US$60 | ~3–5 days |
| Taiwan | US$35 | ~5–6 days |
| Australia, New Zealand | US$60 | ~4–5 days |
| Other regions (catch-all tier) | US$60 | ~15 days |
Check the shipping page for your own country before assuming — the destination list is specific, and anything not named falls into the slow catch-all tier.
Three factors work against the Global mall. Its list prices run materially above Korean shelf prices before any sale is applied — independent comparisons put the gap at roughly 20–35%. It carries no tax refund. And it skews toward single products with sample gifts rather than the large-format 1+1 value sets that make the in-store sale worth flying for, because of weight and breakage constraints in air freight.
Double-size 골획 sets like these are the format the global mall mostly does not carry — one concrete reason to buy in Korea rather than ship.
Import duties and taxes on your end are a separate question and depend on your country. Olive Young Global maintains a customs section in its help centre with country-specific articles; EU recipients in particular should read it before ordering, since we could not verify a single consistent policy across markets.
The honest summary: the Global mall is a luggage-space solution, not a savings solution. If you are in Korea during a sale, buy in Korea. Use the mall for bulky or heavy items you would rather not carry, or for restocking after you fly home.
If Your Dates Simply Don't Line Up
Not every trip can be built around a retail calendar. Here is what genuinely recovers part of the gap and what does not.
Worth doing:
- The tax refund runs year-round. That is 3–7% net on every eligible purchase, sale or no sale, and it is the largest saving reliably available to a foreign visitor outside sale week.
- 1+1 and 2+1 deals run continuously. They expand during sale weeks but they never stop. Sunscreen and sheet masks in particular almost always have a bundle running somewhere on the shelf.
- Payment-method promotions rotate. Check the door signage for current UnionPay / Alipay / WeChat Pay / WOWPASS offers rather than relying on any published rate, including ours.
- Daiso for tools and basics. Every item is capped at ₩5,000 and most beauty items sit at ₩1,000–₩3,000, with genuinely competent products now coming out of manufacturer partnerships. Best for beauty tools, compressed masks, travel containers and cheap basics — not for headline skincare. Tax refund at Daiso varies by branch: a few tourist-district stores are registered refund shops, most are not, and with a ₩5,000 price ceiling against a ₩15,000 minimum you would need a sizeable basket anyway. Don't count on it. Full breakdown in our Daiso Korea guide. If you are also shopping for stationery and gifts, Artbox covers the same budget logic in a different category.
Not worth planning around:
- Olive Young Day (25th–27th monthly). Frequently recommended to tourists, and largely useless to them. The benefit is a membership-tier coupon with a minimum spend that varies by tier and month — typically ₩30,000 to ₩60,000 — and both the tier and the coupon require a Korean account you cannot open as a visitor.
- Airport duty free for K-beauty. For mass-market items in the ₩10,000–₩30,000 range, duty free is frequently no cheaper than an Olive Young sale price once 1+1 sets and the in-store refund are counted — and you cannot compare on the spot, because you are past the point of going back. It stays rational for high-ticket prestige cosmetics, not for the products that fill an Olive Young basket.
Frequently Asked Questions
When exactly is the autumn 2026 Olive Young sale?
Sunday 30 August to Saturday 5 September 2026 — seven days. Olive Young announced it on 28 August, two days before opening, which is its normal notice period. For reference, the four preceding autumn sales ran 2022: Sep 1–7; 2023: Aug 31–Sep 6; 2024: Aug 30–Sep 5; 2025: Aug 29–Sep 4. The winter 2026 sale has not been announced; on that pattern, expect it in the last days of November.
Is the discount really 70% off everything?
No. “Up to 70%” is a ceiling on selected items. Discounts are set per product across roughly 20,000–30,000 SKUs, and most sit well below the headline. The consistent value is in 1+1 and 2+1 bundles, which work out to 50% and 67% off.
Can I join Olive Young membership without a Korean phone number?
Not the Korean one. It requires CJ ONE identity verification, which needs a Korean mobile number in your own name. The Global mall membership is open to anyone with an email address, but its official policy excludes physical Olive Young stores in Korea, so it earns you nothing at the register. Plan to shop as a non-member; sale prices and 1+1 sets apply to everyone.
What is the minimum purchase for a tax refund — ₩15,000 or ₩30,000?
₩15,000. The ₩30,000 figure that circulates widely is the pre-2024 rule and is no longer current. Immediate in-store refunds apply to transactions under ₩1,000,000, up to a total of ₩5,000,000 across your trip.
How much do I actually get back?
Roughly 3–7%, not the headline 10%. The refund operator uses fixed brackets and keeps a handling fee, so the effective rate is worst just below a bracket edge — a ₩29,999 purchase returns only ₩1,000. One larger receipt usually beats several small ones.
Do I need my physical passport, or is a photo enough?
Physical passport. Photos and photocopies are generally refused because the till scans the document. Carrying it is the difference between getting the refund and not.
Do I have to do anything at the airport if the refund was already deducted in store?
Normally no — you proceed straight to your gate. You may occasionally be selected for a spot check, so keep purchases sealed and receipts accessible until you have cleared security. If you exceeded the ₩5,000,000 trip cap, the excess must be processed at an airport refund counter or kiosk.
Should I shop on the first day of the sale?
Only if you want one specific limited item. Day one carries the worst crowding and the fastest stockouts, and popular products are often not restocked within the same sale period. Day two or three, in the morning, gives you the same prices with far less friction.
Is it cheaper to order from Olive Young Global and ship home?
Generally no. Global list prices run roughly 20–35% above Korean shelf prices, there is no tax refund on online orders, and the large-format 1+1 value sets mostly are not offered. Treat the Global mall as a way to avoid carrying weight, not as a way to save money. US customers should note that global.oliveyoung.com no longer ships to the United States — use us.oliveyoung.com instead.
Which store should I go to during sale week?
Gangnam on a weekday afternoon is the best balance of stock depth and manageable crowds. Choose Myeongdong Town if you want multilingual support and the widest range, and accept the crowd. Avoid relying on small neighbourhood branches for a main haul — they are quieter but carry less stock.
Sources
- CJ Olive Young corporate newsroom — sale announcements and foreign customer data: newsroom index · global store & foreign customer data (Nov 2025) · 2025 autumn sale announcement · 2024 autumn sale announcement
- Insight Korea and Cosmorning, 28 August 2026 — autumn 2026 sale dates (August 30 – September 5), announced two days ahead: insightkorea.co.kr; cosmorning.com
- Herald Business, 22 June 2026 — foreign repeat visits during sale weeks (Olive Young / Global Tax Free joint analysis): biz.heraldcorp.com/article/10783449
- CJ Newsroom, 27 February 2026 — spring 2026 sale dates (March 1–7), primary release: cjnews.cj.net; corroborated by Cosmorning
- CJ Newsroom, 4 June 2026 — summer 2026 sale dates, stated as “May 31 to June 6”: cjnews.cj.net
- CJ Newsroom, 26 March 2026 — Central Myeongdong Town: opening, size, brand count, foreigner services: cjnews.cj.net
- Korea Tourism Organization — Duty Free & Tax Refunds: english.visitkorea.or.kr
- Seoul Metropolitan Government — Tax Refund: english.visitseoul.net/taxrefund
- Global Tax Free — published refund bracket table: merchant.gtfetrs.com
- Olive Young Global — shipping policy · membership policy · Olive Young US shipping
Where sources disagreed — notably on the tax refund minimum — we have followed the Korean government and official tourism sources and said so explicitly. Where a figure could not be verified against an official source, we have left it out rather than repeat it, and where a recommendation rests on experience rather than published data, we have labelled it as such.
A finished basket. Bought inside a sale week with the refund applied, this lands about a third below its regular-week price.
You've now got the calendar. The other half is knowing what a fair price looks like.
Sale week narrows the gap between what tourists pay and what locals pay — it doesn't close it. Our K-Beauty Shopping Guide (2026 Edition) covers the 20–30% that most visitors still leave on the counter: where residents actually buy, which formats are marked up for tourists, and how to check a price before you commit. Pair it with the dates above and you're buying the way Seoul does.
Written by a Seoul-based global business owner. Follow more verified, no-fluff Korea travel guides at SeoulCut.com.
