When do tickets go on sale?

Every Monday at 6:00pm, covering the following Monday to Sunday. Only one week is ever on sale at a time, so you cannot book months ahead however long the exhibition runs.

KRW 8,000, with a standing 10% discount for booking through the museum's site. A maximum of four tickets can be booked per account, and entry is by timed slot rather than open all day.

What if every slot is sold out?

There is a separate same-day allocation sold at the museum, which is distinct from the online inventory rather than a spillover from it. You cannot choose the date or the time slot that way, and it sells out early on busy days.

When does the exhibition close?

9 February 2027. One large installation is shown separately in the Seoul Box from 18 December 2026 to 28 March 2027, so that piece runs on for seven weeks after the main exhibition finishes.

Is the audio guide free?

Yes — twelve tracks, free through MMCA's own exhibition app. The daily gallery talks are free too and need no booking, with thirty places at noon, 2:00pm and 4:00pm, though those are conducted in Korean.

Exhibition·National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, KoreaOn now

How to get into the Do Ho Suh show at MMCA Seoul, where tickets drop weekly

Kang Shin-wookPublished 22 September 2026Updated 21 September 20266 sources checkedEditorial policy 이 글을 한국어로 읽기

Book tickets

The essentials

Dates: 27 August 2026 – 9 February 2027 (On now)
Where: MMCA Seoul, galleries 3, 4 and 5 on basement level 1 and the MMCA Studio on level 2, 30 Samcheong-ro, Jongno-gu
Admission: KRW 8,000, with a standing 10% discount for booking online
Booking: Online release every Monday at 6:00pm covering the following week, maximum four tickets, timed entry. A separate same-day allocation is sold at the museum
Who it is for: All ages
Language: The booking site has an English interface and the audio guide is a free app download. Wall texts at MMCA are bilingual. The daily gallery talks are in Korean.
Scale: Around 500 works — drawing, sculpture, film and installation
Audio guide: Twelve tracks, free in MMCA's own exhibition app
Gallery talks: Daily at noon, 2:00pm and 4:00pm, no booking, thirty places each
Touring on to: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, then M+ in Hong Kong

Written up from National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea's own announcement of 4 September 2026. Details change — check the official page before you travel.

MMCA Seoul's Do Ho Suh solo exhibition runs to 9 February 2027, but tickets are released a week at a time, every Monday at 6pm. Admission is KRW 8,000, timed entry, maximum four per booking. A separate same-day allocation is held back for the door, so a sold-out online calendar does not mean there is no way in — and Wednesdays and Saturdays have three more time slots than other days.

In short

The exhibition runs to 9 February 2027, but tickets are only released a week at a time, every Monday at 6:00pm for the following Monday to Sunday.
Admission is KRW 8,000 with a standing 10% discount online, maximum four tickets per account, and entry is by timed slot.
A separate same-day allocation is sold at the museum, so a sold-out online calendar is not the end of it — but you cannot choose your date or slot that way.
Wednesdays and Saturdays run ten slots instead of seven because the museum stays open to 9pm.

The promotional poster for the Do Ho Suh solo exhibition. — The poster for the Do Ho Suh exhibition. Photo: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea · Original

Do Ho Suh is among the best-known Korean artists working internationally, and this is his largest showing in Korea. The practical problem is not the exhibition but the ticketing: the run is five months long, which makes it sound relaxed, while the booking window is one week, which makes it anything but.

The sign wall at the main entrance of MMCA Seoul. Photo: Bonnielou2013, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

The weekly release

Every Monday at 6:00pm the following week goes on sale in one go — Monday to Sunday, all slots. There is no rolling window and no release further out, so a plan made a month ahead cannot be ticketed a month ahead. If your dates are fixed, the Monday two weeks before is the evening to be at a screen.

If it is sold out online

A separate same-day allocation is held for the museum itself. It is not the online inventory spilling over; it is a distinct quantity. The trade-off is that you cannot pick the date or the slot and it goes early on a busy day. Working both — try the Monday release, and if that fails arrive early on the day — is the sensible approach.

Pick a day with more slots

Slots by day

Wednesday and Saturday: Ten slots, because the museum opens to 9:00pm
Other days: Seven slots, with the museum closing at 6:00pm
Consequence: The two late days carry roughly 40% more capacity, and the evening slots are the quietest

The same two evenings are when general admission to MMCA is free after 6pm — that does not cover this ticketed exhibition, but it does mean the rest of the building costs nothing while you are there.

Getting more out of the ticket

The audio guide is twelve tracks and free through MMCA's own exhibition app — download it before you arrive rather than in the basement.
Gallery talks run daily at noon, 2:00pm and 4:00pm with thirty places each, no booking, first come. They are in Korean.
One major installation is shown separately in the Seoul Box from 18 December 2026 to 28 March 2027, which is a different date range from the main exhibition.
Tickets are timed and non-transferable, and cannot be resold.

If you cannot get in at all

The museum grounds need no ticket. MMCA Seoul is built around six courtyards open to anyone during museum hours, including the one holding the restored Jongchinbu halls, and Gyeongbokgung is a ten-minute walk away. It is a poor substitute for the exhibition and a perfectly good hour on its own terms.

Gyeongeundang, a painted wooden hall of the former Jongchinbu, with the museum's modern architecture rising behind it. — Gyeongeundang of the former Jongchinbu, inside the museum grounds. Photo: Jjw, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

City towers in the distance seen between the painted columns of Okcheopdang at the Jongchinbu. — Okcheopdang of the Jongchinbu — office towers layered behind the painted columns. Photo: Jjw, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

An old stone well, built up in a circle of stones, on the site of the Jongchinbu. — The old stone well still standing on the Jongchinbu site. Photo: Omogun (오모군), via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

A lane of tiled-roof hanok houses in Bukchon Hanok Village, photographed by day. — Bukchon-ro 11-gil in Bukchon Hanok Village. Photo: Basile Morin, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

The streets of Samcheong-dong at sunset, hanok roofs and shop lights below the silhouette of Bugaksan. — Samcheong-dong at sunset. Photo: Ken Eckert, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

Gyedong-gil in golden-hour light, ivy-covered buildings and small shops along the street. — Gyedong-gil in the golden hour. Photo: Basile Morin, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

Frequently asked questions

Q. When do tickets go on sale?: Every Monday at 6:00pm, covering the following Monday to Sunday. Only one week is ever on sale at a time, so you cannot book months ahead however long the exhibition runs.
Q. How much is it?: KRW 8,000, with a standing 10% discount for booking through the museum's site. A maximum of four tickets can be booked per account, and entry is by timed slot rather than open all day.
Q. What if every slot is sold out?: There is a separate same-day allocation sold at the museum, which is distinct from the online inventory rather than a spillover from it. You cannot choose the date or the time slot that way, and it sells out early on busy days.
Q. When does the exhibition close?: 9 February 2027. One large installation is shown separately in the Seoul Box from 18 December 2026 to 28 March 2027, so that piece runs on for seven weeks after the main exhibition finishes.
Q. Is the audio guide free?: Yes — twelve tracks, free through MMCA's own exhibition app. The daily gallery talks are free too and need no booking, with thirty places at noon, 2:00pm and 4:00pm, though those are conducted in Korean.

Sources

Official notice (Korean)

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