Ttukseom: Containers and the Riverside
A shipping-container mall, a caterpillar gallery and the beach of Seoul
≈2.2 km · ≈30 min walking · Easy · Gwangjin-gu · Start: Konkuk Univ. station · End: Jayang station
Start at Common Ground, a mall stacked out of blue shipping containers, ride one stop on Line 7 to the river, walk through Jabeolle, a long tube-shaped gallery hung over the expressway, and end on the lawns of Ttukseom Hangang Park.
Stops
- Common Ground (커먼그라운드)
A pop-up mall built from about 200 shipping containers in 2016, with shops, food trucks and a market square. - Jabeolle (뚝섬 자벌레)
A 240 m tube building shaped like an inchworm (jabeolle), opened in 2009, linking Ttukseom Resort station to the riverbank. It has small exhibitions and a viewing deck. - Ttukseom Hangang Park (뚝섬한강공원)
Seoul's most popular riverside park, with an outdoor pool in summer, water sports and music on weekend evenings.
Best time: A summer evening, when the river pool is open and the riverbank fills with picnics.
Tips
- The outdoor pool opens from late June to August.
- Exit 2 of Jayang station (the old Ttukseom Resort station) leads straight into Jabeolle.
Access
Level paths. Jabeolle, the riverside gallery tube, is reached by lift from the park.