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On nowNational Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea·Exhibition
How to get into the Do Ho Suh show at MMCA Seoul, where tickets drop weekly
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.
27 Aug – 9 FebMMCA Seoul, galleries 3, 4 and 5 on basement level 1 and the MMCA Studio on level 2, 30 Samcheong-ro, Jongno-gu
Korea National Arboretum·Notice
The Korea National Arboretum shuts for three days over Chuseok, then opens free on the 27th
The arboretum closes from 24 to 26 September 2026 for its twice-yearly forest rest period, then waives admission on Sunday 27 September, the last day of the holiday. The free day does not waive the parking rule: if you drive you still need a reservation and still pay to park. The forest museum is shut for refurbishment until December and will not be open either.
24 Sept – 27 SeptKorea National Arboretum, Gwangneung forest, 509 Gwangneungsumogwon-ro, Pocheon, Gyeonggi-do
On nowNational Museum of Korea·Exhibition
The British Museum's Korea show opens 1 October, the first of its size in Europe in four decades
The British Museum stages Korea from 1 October 2026 to 31 January 2027, drawing on the Lee Kun-hee bequest to run through two thousand years of Korean art. It is the third stop on a tour that began in Washington and Chicago, and the first large Korean exhibition in Europe in around forty years. Tickets start at £14 for adults, with an early-bird rate.
1 Oct – 31 JanJoseph Hotung Great Court Gallery, Room 35, British Museum, London
On nowNational Institute of Ecology·Exhibition
A new climate gallery opens the Ecorium — Seocheon, KRW 5,000
The National Institute of Ecology has rebuilt the first gallery inside its Ecorium, the five-biome greenhouse complex in Seocheon, and opened it on 10 September 2026 as a permanent exhibition called Climate and Ecosystems. There is no separate charge and no booking: the KRW 5,000 adult ticket covers it, the building closes on Mondays, and the train from Seoul stops five minutes' walk from the west gate.
From 10 SeptNational Institute of Ecology, Ecorium
EndedRoyal Palaces and Tombs Center·Event
Seoul's autumn palace festival, 7–11 October — what needs no ticket
The autumn edition of the Korean Royal Culture Festival runs from Wednesday 7 to Sunday 11 October 2026 across Gyeongbokgung, Changdeokgung, Deoksugung and Changgyeonggung palaces and Jongmyo Shrine, with a free open-air concert at Gyeongbokgung the evening before. Roughly half the programme needs a reservation made on a Korean ticketing site; the other half you can simply walk into with a palace ticket that costs between KRW 1,000 and KRW 3,000 at the gate.
7 Oct – 11 OctGyeongbokgung, Changdeokgung, Deoksugung, Changgyeonggung and Jongmyo
On nowFreeNational Institute of Biological Resources·Exhibition
Free tidal-flat plant exhibition near Incheon Airport — to March 2027
The National Institute of Biological Resources in Incheon is showing 26 species of salt-tolerant plants and the tidal-flat animals that live among them, from 11 September 2026 until 31 March 2027. Admission and parking are free, individuals walk in without booking, and a free shuttle bus runs from Geomam Station (검암역) on the Airport Railroad line that connects Incheon Airport with Seoul.
11 Sept – 31 MarNational Institute of Biological Resources
EndedFreeDaegu National Museum·Exhibition
Free Korean dress exhibition in Daegu — closes 27 September
Daegu National Museum is showing 137 pieces of historical Korean dress and the paintings that reconstruct them until Sunday 27 September 2026, and admission costs nothing. You walk in without booking, but the museum closes on Mondays and on Chuseok day itself, which this year falls on Friday 25 September — so the final week has only five open days left.
7 Jul – 27 SeptDaegu National Museum