Gangnam is the most developed and rich area in this country. From here, June will be dealing with housing problems & histories about developments in Korea.
This is a love hotel district. Let's look at the love cultures in Korea.
One of the most famous private institute. June will share education cultures & birthrate related to it.
No.1 area for plastic surgeries. Let's look at plastic cultures Koreans have.
Han river. This is a place representing developement & suicide. Let's look at the histories of them.
A fantastic tour with deep insights in korean everyday’s life! Jessica is a great tour guide and bridges the gap between cultures. I recommend this walking tour to everyone!
This is an absolutely superb tour and Jessica was an excellent guide . She really opened our eyes to the difficulties of young people in Seoul and the pressures they face in education and personal appearance . We were fortunate to be able to arrange a private tour as the group tour did not fit in with our schedule . This was quite expensive for a shortish tour with no pick up - but nevertheless very worthwhile And Jessica did recommend a great place for lunch !
We had three tours in Seoul, food, history, and this one - and this one was the best! We learned about everyday life in Korea. It was extremely interesting. We’ve been on a lot of tours in Asia and we keep talking about this one. Jessica is the best!
Excellent walking tour. Very easy to get around and the guide was very helpful, considerate and friendly.
Interesting tour, learned alot about Korean Culture. Great helpfull guide.
Great to discover what's behind the glamorous streets of Seoul.
Thanks June for giving us so interesting insights about the Why’s and How’s of Korea’s society and for answering all of our questions patiently! 🫶
An insight into life in South Korea. While walking around a couple of areas is Seoul you develop an understanding of life for a Korean. A personal view weaved by the narrator with insightful truths of your Korean citizens. Thanks Jessica keep it going.
June was really clear and insightful. We really liked how we painted a complex picture of Seoul and Korean culture all whilst backing everything up with statistics.
June was a very friendly tour guide who provided excellent insights into the other side of the success story and lifestyle in Korea. I highly recommend this tour; it is very informative.
Jessica takes us through a real and riveting journey into the dark side of Korean beauty industy, social norms that make life in Seoul equally beautiful and challenging! Must do!!
This young professional should be running the company. Knowledgeable, energetic, attracts attention to her speech and explaining. Learning while laughing and enjoying the views
Jessica was a witty and smart tour guide full of honest insight into Korean society. Highly, highly recommend!!!
Jessica was a fantastic tour guide! She was knowledgeable, funny and shared memorable stories to give insight to Korean culture. Would recommend this tour to anyone interested in getting a peek into Korean society and norms, 10/10.
Perfect way to get a better understanding of the struggles of normal Koreans
The tour was great and very insightful! Jessica is a wonderful tour guide and really did make the difference. She is knowledgeable and honest about Koreas „darker side“ and giving insight in many different social topics. If you‘d have to choose a tour, do this one!
Best alternative tour I have been on. Jessica provided an honest perspective on Korean culture - from its origins to its strengths and weaknesses. From education to work, marriage, family and beauty, I came away far more knowledgeable about Korea and very grateful for the opportunity to hear an insider’s perspective
To everyone, this was one of our highlights. If you want cultural context, the 2+ hours hearing Jessica’s hot take is well worth it. Jessica, when we come to Seoul again, we’d love to see the other tours you host!
It’s been a great experience talking whit Jessica, she explained us a lot things about the Korean culture. I strongly recommend.
The information about the different topics was really interesting.
Very interesting to compare with my own country
Educational and interesting Jessica was 5 star.
Jessica is an engaging and knowledgeable guide who is very open, kind and fun. This was a fascinating tour that put a lot I’ve learned about Korea into perspective. I recommend this tour to anyone who wants to really understand Korean culture today. Not your typical tour. Excellent! 5 stars.
Very nice explanation by the guide named June. Very good and clear english also. We really learned a lot about the shadow side of South Korea
Jessica was amazing, energy, attitude, easy to understand and explaining corran culture so to the point!!! Would recommend 1000000%
It was definitely one of the most interesting tours I’ve ever been to and I highly recommend it to everyone interested in Korea. Jessica is such an amazing guide!
This tour was the #1 thing we did while visiting Seoul! Jessica is a wealth of information, and her delivery is excellent. I loved the way she would preface key pieces of information - and there were many! - with a question so you could really follow her points. She pointed out buildings and signs during our walk that would have meant nothing to me but are actually very important to understanding Korean culture and what it means to be Korean today. Not being used to humidity, we found the hot weather very uncomfortable when we were in Seoul, and Jessica was sensitive to this. She brought us to places outside that had seating in the shade and a cafe at one point where we had our own area to listen to her while sipping a cold drink. Also, very importantly, she provided lightweight portable devices so that every person on the tour was able to clearly hear every word she said, even when we were walking single file in narrow or crowded spaces. She was just excellent. She explained the training that she has had to be a tour guide and that she was continuing to take more classes to learn more about Korean history and culture. Finally, her English was native level, having spent most of her childhood and growing up years in the US, and at the end of the tour she stayed and answered questions about the tour and other things people asked about. Can’t recommend this tour highly enough. I’m sure there isn’t another one like it. Sign up if you are curious about the parts of Korean culture you don’t readily see but that are huge in the experience of being Korean today.
Great tour to understand more of the cultural context of Seoul
I really enjoyed this tour about youth in Korea. It was very interesting and informative, and I learned a lot. Jessica was a fantastic guide – her English was excellent, and she explained everything clearly and in a very engaging way. I would definitely recommend this tour!
This was an eye opening tour that gave us a true understanding of the societal and economic pressures that South Koreans face in their lifetimes. June (sorry if misspelling!) was a great tour guide and went in-depth in to all topics discussed. I leave the tour so much more knowledgeable of the korean experience that before. Highly recommended.
June did a great job showing us a completely different aspect of Korean culture that most tourists do not get to see. We learned a lot about Korean living conditions and the pressures that people are facing in everyday life. Highly recommend this tour.
June has been an amazing guide with fluent spoken English. The tour has been really interesting for getting to know all the aspects of Korean society that are usually not talked about. Would recommend it anytime 👌🏽.
Great Gangnam Tour with June! He was very knowledgeable and shared many interesting facts about the area and Korean culture. The tour was enjoyable, well organized, and very informative. Highly recommended!
Thanks to June for this awesome and interesting tour. June is THE tourguide. If you have the option to have him as tourguide - DO IT! :)
Thanks to June for the awesome tour today. The tour was interesting and June is the perfect tour guide.
We had a really good time on this tour. Jessica was an amazing tour guide – very informative, friendly, and engaging. It was really interesting to see a different side of Korea, and we learned a lot. She answered all of our questions and made everyone feel welcome and involved throughout the tour. Highly recommended!
Tour provided great insight into Korean society today. Jessica was an excellent guide — knowledge, insightful, and funny. Highly recommend if you want to learn about the lives of most Korean young people.
This was a very great tour! The host Jessica was amazing and very entertaining, interactive, and friendly! I definitely recommend it if you want an unfiltered perspective of South Korea besides kbeauty, kpop and kdramas. I now am grateful for having this perspective and has changed my outlook on South Korea I would recommend it solo or a group!
Tour guide Jessica gave with good humour a frank assessment of the pressures on the youth and every else in modern Seoul society as we meandered through the Gangnam streets of fashion stores, beauty clinics and hagwon. Despite it all there good reasons to stay!
This was the highlight of my Seoul trip — and I almost didn't book it. June built the tour as a story with five stops and one devastating through-line: how does one of the world's wealthiest societies end up this unhappy? From Gangnam Station to the love hotel district, the cram school, the plastic surgery streets of Sinsa-dong, and finally the Han River — each stop added a layer. By the end, everything clicked. June is an exceptional guide. Honest, sharp, unscripted. He made me feel like I was getting the version of Seoul that most visitors never see. Navigating these streets will never be the same after this tour. If you want to understand Seoul — not just see it — this is the one.
This was the highlight of my Seoul trip — and I almost didn't book it. June built the tour as a story with five stops and one devastating through-line: how does one of the world's wealthiest societies end up this unhappy? From Gangnam Station to the love hotel district, the cram school, the plastic surgery streets of Sinsa-dong, and finally the Han River — each stop added a layer. By the end, everything clicked. June is an exceptional guide. Honest, sharp, unscripted. He made me feel like I was getting the version of Seoul that most visitors never see. Navigating these streets will never be the same after this tour. If you want to understand Seoul — not just see it — this is the one.
Great tour. Lots of interesting insights. Enjoyable and highly recommended.
What a great learning experience! Korean culture, lifestyle, educational system, housing, professional expectations, life pressures, and more. All shared in an engaging way. Far exceeded our expectations. TY to June, our guide, for the most interesting tour we've been on in awhile. In fact, maybe ever.
Amazing walking tour. Jun exceptionally articulated the realities with facts. Perfect pacing with toilet and water break.
Our guide Jessica was super knowledgeable about Korean culture. Jessica covered many interesting aspects of Korea’s modern society in an educational and entertaining way. We totally recommend this tour.
Jessica gave us a fascinating walk into what life is like in very modern South Korea. She was very candid and provocative, friendly and very understandable and relatable. Got some good exercise and saw lot. We went for just past two and a half ours with about 15 people.
Jessica was great. 3 hours of really interesting and informative cultural knowledge about life in Korea. Family life’s, education, marriage etc. Highly recommended
Jessica was a great guide, perfectly paced, organized and charismatic. Her English is native so she was able to share nuanced information. Would love to join her on other tours.
It was fascinating to learn about this side of life in South Korea. Joon was an excellent guide, and he personalised his knowledge well. I left the tour feeling very enriched and informed about a country whose culture is very much represented in one way to the Western world.
Very interesting tour to learn about the Korean education system, the love life, the beauty industry and the real estate situation in Seoul. Totally recommendable tour with a fantastic guide!
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