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Seoul Botanic Park Tour

Botanic Garden

Botanic Garden

The Botanic Garden consists of an outdoor garden that recreates a traditional Korean garden using native plants, and a greenhouse showcasing plants from 12 cities across tropical and Mediterranean regions. You can also find Children's Garden School and Magok Cultural Hall (former drainage pump station), which is designated as a Registered Cultural Heritage of Seoul Metropolitan Government.

Main Facilities
Botanic Center, Children’s Garden School, Magok Culture Hall (Drainage Pumping Station of the Former Yangcheon Irrigation Association, Seoul)

  • Display Gardens

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A Journey Through Korea’s Nature and Garden Culture

A space where you can experience the past and present of Korea’s garden culture.
It features “eight themed gardens” that showcase the plants and plant culture of Korea based on the stories held within each plant.

  • Windy Garden
    A garden that offers rest and relaxation with the exotic atmosphere created by grasses like silver grass and hairgrass.
  • Seasonal Garden
    A seasonal garden displaying plants that represent each time of the year where visitors can appreciate the beauty of blooming, maturing, and scattering.
  • Memory Garden
    A place for a journey into the past through plants that were once familiar but are now fading from memory.
  • Meditative Garden
    A space to explore the Korean garden philosophy of borrowed scenery and harmonious placement of pavilions within the surrounding landscape.
  • Welcome Garden
    A highly seasonal garden planted with representative species of spring, summer, fall, and winter, offering a strong sense of the changing seasons.
  • Healing Garden
    A space exhibiting medicinal plants widely used in the East and West, offering a healing experience for body and mind.
  • Designer's Garden
    An experimental space for designers who propose new garden models, where you can discover future garden trends.
  • Forest Garden
    A recreation of traditional Korean forests composed of native and endemic species of the Korean Peninsula that are not widely known.