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Seoul

South Korea · 12 quests

History

1 quest
Gyeongbokgung, Seoul🇰🇷 Seoul
Gyeongbokgung
Only 40 of its old buildings survived

Nature

2 quests
Bukhansan, Seoul🇰🇷 Seoul
Bukhansan
Fortress walls climb across its granite peaks
Seoullo 7017, Seoul🇰🇷 Seoul
Seoullo 7017
A highway now carries 24,000 plants

Art

4 quests
National Museum of Korea, Seoul🇰🇷 Seoul
National Museum of Korea
It has a branch inside an airport
Ihwa Mural Village, Seoul🇰🇷 Seoul
Ihwa Mural Village
Painted stairs climb through a real hillside neighborhood
Oil Tank Park, Seoul🇰🇷 Seoul
Oil Tank Park
Five oil tanks now hold art and performances
Leeum, Seoul🇰🇷 Seoul
Leeum
Two museum halves come from three architects

Food

3 quests
Korean Set Meal, Seoul🇰🇷 Seoul
Korean Set Meal
One meal arrives as a tableful of small dishes
Galbi, Seoul🇰🇷 Seoul
Galbi
Their marinade changes when it meets charcoal
Soy-Marinated Crab, Seoul🇰🇷 Seoul
Soy-Marinated Crab
The crab arrives raw, not cooked

Sport

1 quest
Sangam Stadium, Seoul🇰🇷 Seoul
Sangam Stadium
Its design follows a traditional Korean kite

Party

1 quest
Club FF, Seoul🇰🇷 Seoul
Club FF
Its night runs on guitars, not a DJ

South Korea

Photo quests in Seoul

What the catalogue actually holds here, and which of it is worth rearranging a day around.

Seoul holds twelve quests across six categories, led by Art with four — though only just, with three in Food behind it. The one category with nothing in Seoul so far is Beach.

One is tier 1, the tier kept for what a visitor would not have found on their own: Ihwa Mural Village. It is also the only quest here whose check-in asks for PRO; the other eleven are open on any plan. Tier 3 covers eight of them, which is the label for what a visitor would expect a travel app to have anyway.

Art covers the work and the building around it, so a mural on an ordinary street counts alongside the collection with a ticket desk. A food quest names the dish rather than the restaurant: the pin sits on the room that serves it, but what you are going for is the plate. Every check-in works the same way: the geotag your camera wrote into the photo has to land within 200 m of the quest's own point.

By category

Each of these opens the whole category across every city, with the Seoul quests among them.

Tier 1

The unexpected ones

The one quests in Seoul the catalogue files as finds rather than fixtures — the half of a city a guidebook has no room for.

Nearby

Cities near Seoul

Ranked by distance rather than by border, because from here the next useful stop is often the one in the next country.

Questions

About quests in Seoul

How many photo quests are there in Seoul?
12, across six of the seven categories the catalogue uses. The deepest groups are Art (4), Food (3) and Nature (2). Nothing in Beach here yet — a category appears in a city the moment a quest is published into it, so the gaps move. Among them: Gyeongbokgung, Bukhansan and National Museum of Korea.
What is there to do in Seoul beyond the obvious?
One of the 12 quests in Seoul is tier 1, which is the catalogue's own mark for a find rather than a landmark: the pipeline that writes it is told that tier 3 is "everything a visitor would expect a travel app to have", and that tiers 1 and 2 are "only the unexpected finds". Seoul holds one at tier 1, three at tier 2 and eight at tier 3. The tier 1 quest here is Ihwa Mural Village, in Art.
Can you do all the Seoul quests on one trip?
Yes, given a few days. Every one of the 12 falls within 7.8 km of the middle of the Seoul list — walking and local transport, not day trips — so this is a list to plan a visit around rather than a reason to extend one.
Which Seoul quests can you do for free?
11 of the 12 can be checked in on the free plan, and all 12 can be read and travelled to without paying anything — the catalogue is open signed out, on every plan. PRO covers the check-in on the hardest tier, which in Seoul means one quest: Ihwa Mural Village.
How do I prove I visited a place in Seoul?
Take the photo at the place and upload it. Your browser reads the location the camera wrote into that file and measures it against the quest's own coordinates; inside 200 m the check-in counts. The distance is measured to the point, not to the city: being in Seoul is not what is checked, and a photo taken across town from Gyeongbokgung fails exactly the way one taken at home does. A file with no location in it cannot be checked at all, and a photo that has been through a messaging app usually arrives that way — upload the original out of the camera roll rather than a copy someone sent back to you. The Food quests in Seoul sit on the room where the dish is served rather than on the dish, so that address is what the 200 m is measured from.