Baedari Brewery
Free: All time Baedari Brewery is not exactly located in Seoul. It’s in Goyang City, north of Seoul but it can be easily accessed within 20 minutes of public transport. Even though the brewery has been brewing Korean wines (makgeolli, jukyoju, and soju) since 1915, the museum itself only opened in 2004. In it, you’ll...
Museum of Korean Embroidery
Free: All time The Korean Embroidery Museum is housed in a tiny one-room space. Displayed in it are about 1000 works of embroidery by women from the Joseon Period (1392-1910). The embroidery or “Chasu” are found in various form from clothes to toys. Back in the days, the women used needles made out of bones...
Digital View Booth | Free Phone Call
Free: All time For those travelling in Seoul and are in need to make domestic phone calls, keep an eye on the “Digital View” booths that are available in almost all the city’s major metro stations. The calls are free of charge to any landlines and mobile phones. On the same booth, there’s also a...
Servas
Free: All time (Annual membership required; fee varies per country) Amongst all the different hospitality exchange organizations, Servas is the oldest, by far. Founded in 1949 by Bob Luitweiler as a peace movement, Servas International now expands to over 100 countries. It is an international, non-governmental, multicultural peace association that operates through a network of...
Hostel Jobs
Free: All time Ever wonder how the cool guys and gals at your hostels’ front desks get their job from? Probably just by being there at the right place at the right time. Yet, they could have found out about the openings from the site Hostel Jobs! The website is technically a forum in which...
Trevolta | Crowd-Funded Travels
Free: All time Trevolta is a crowd-funded website focusing solely on travel. The goal of the site is to enable travellers to submit their extraordinary ideas for expeditions in order to raise funds for it. Projects can be backed up by inspired people or sponsors looking for marketing opportunities and brand awareness. Think Kickstarter, but...
Potsdamer Platz
Free: All time After the WWII and during the Cold War era, the area of Potsdamer Platz was a desolate land since it was situated right in the no-man’s land by the Berlin Wall. It wasn’t until 1995 that it has become the site of major redevelopment projects. Today, you will find bold modern architecture...
Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien
Free: All time Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien is an exhibition space for contemporary art housed in a former hospital building. When the hospital closed in 1970, the building has been used as spaces for cultural and artistic institutions including artist studios and projects spaces for exhibitions, theater and dance. Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien owns a collection of about 450...
Topography of Terror
Free: All time The Topography of Terror is a permanent exhibition at the site where the headquarters of the Secret State Police – the SS – were located during the Third Reich. The exhibition documents the history of the institutions and the terror created during the Nazi reign. Through mostly photographic material and documents, visitors...
Brandenburg Gate
Free: All time The Brandenburg Gate is one of Berlin’s most important monuments. Once, a symbol of the division of Germany during the Cold War between East and West Berlin, it now symbolizes the New Berlin’s unity. Tourists flock this site like they do Times Square in New York City. And where there are tourists,...
East Side Gallery
Free: All time When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, the stretch of 1.3km of the wall along Muhlenstrasse was spared. It became the East Side Gallery – an open air gallery with murals painted by 118 artists from 21 countries in the world. The artists, through their murals, commented on the political events...
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
Free: All time Also known as the Holocaust Memorial, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe is a memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust. The outdoor area is covered with 2,711 concrete slabs arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field. These stelae are designed to evoke an uneasy, confusing atmosphere,...
