If you’re flying from the far end of Incheon Airport Terminal 2, there’s a Korean Air lounge that is easy to miss.
The Korean Air Prestige Garden East Lounge is located on the 4th floor opposite Gate 281, making it especially convenient for flights departing around Gates 281–283. It opened as part of Korean Air’s major Terminal 2 lounge expansion and renovation project.
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The enormous black bag in these photos is not an official city garbage bag. It belongs to Covering (커버링), a private collection service that removes mixed household waste directly from your door.
Airports usually give you two choices: shop or eat. Incheon Airport is trying something different with X:PORT (엑스포트), a new digital experience space filled with AI, robots, and interactive Korean culture.
I stopped by the Terminal 2 X:PORT area, where several futuristic experiences are set up. One of the most entertaining is X:Lucky Charm, which uses AI to give you a guardian animal and a short piece of personalized advice. Mine was a very cute tiger.
Getting tickets for a popular K-pop concert in Korea can sometimes feel harder than getting into the group itself. Now the Korean government is taking aim at the scalpers who make the problem worse.
Beginning August 28, 2026, South Korea introduced much tougher rules against illegal ticket reselling for concerts, performances and sporting events. The rules prohibit both fraudulent ticket buying and repeated commercial resale above the original purchase price—even when automated “macro” software isn’t used.
On a very hot and humid Seoul afternoon, I tried 초계밀면 (chogye mil-myeon) at Somyeon Sanghoe, a tiny local noodle shop in Yangjae-dong. The dish arrived beneath a small mountain of frozen broth, accompanied by wheat noodles, shredded chicken, crisp vegetables and boiled eggs.
Under Seoul’s new “24-hour city” plan, eight city-run museums and galleries will gradually remain open until 9 p.m., five days a week. A trial will run from September through November before regular operation begins in 2027.
