Seoul · 2–3 hours

After Work

For someone in Seoul on work who would rather not see only the meeting room and the hotel.

2 or 3 hours · evenings & weekends

In Seoul for work? Don’t fly home having seen a meeting room and a hotel.

Work here ends and the day is not over. People go and eat together, and then they go somewhere else, and somewhere in the second round they start saying what they actually think.

That is the evening you are in this city for and will not find on your own. I take you to it.

Not a class, and not a business-Korean session. We speak English most of the night.

2 hours

The first round

Dinner and drinks the way the table here really does it. Enough if you have something on later.

  • We meet where people here go after work — Yeouido, Euljiro, Gangnam, whatever is near you
  • A grill house or a pocha, and how a Korean table actually runs
  • Why the glass is poured and taken with two hands, and when you can leave
  • The handful of Korean phrases that get used at that table
  • Every photo and video, as original files on a private link

$210

3 hours

The whole evening

First round, second round, and the part where people say what they think.

  • Everything in the first round, unhurried
  • The second round — a beer hall, or a noraebang if you want one
  • Working life here: years of service, titles, who defers to whom
  • Why everyone you meet seems to be thinking about changing jobs
  • Every photo and video, as original files on a private link

$280

Here for longer than the evening? A whole day across the city is , and four hours in one neighbourhood is .