City Hall Self Guided Tour

Sejongdaero 110, Jung-gu, Seoul

Subway City Hall Station (Line 1 or 2, Exit #5)

Bus 172, 472, 504, 700, 1711, 7016, 7018, 7017, 7022, 7019, 1020 101, 150, 402, 501, 506, 405

Location

Cheonggyecheon Stream Jonggak Seoul City Station (Line 1) Seoul Hall Seoul City Metropolitan Hall Euljiro Council Annex

Deoksugung Palace Seoul Metropolitan Library Seoul Seoul Hotel Euljiro 1-ga City Hall Plaza President Station Seosomun (Line 2) Annex Please scan QR code for City Hall The Plaza Tour reservation. Hotel Lotte Dept. Store

City Hall Station (Line 1)

City Hall Station (Line 2) Self Guided Tour

Sejongdaero 110, Jung-gu, Seoul

Subway City Hall Station (Line 1 or 2, Exit #5)

Bus 172, 472, 504, 700, 1711, 7016, 7018, 7017, 7022, 7019, 1020 101, 150, 402, 501, 506, 405

Location

Cheonggyecheon Stream Jonggak Seoul City Station (Line 1) Seoul Hall Seoul City Metropolitan Hall Euljiro Council Annex

Deoksugung Palace Seoul Metropolitan Library Seoul Seoul Hotel Euljiro 1-ga City Hall Plaza President Station Seosomun (Line 2) Annex Please scan QR code for City Hall The Plaza Tour reservation. Hotel Lotte Dept. Store

City Hall Station (Line 1)

City Hall Station (Line 2) English 2nd floor Sky Plaza, 9th Floor 4 Please use the Happy+ Shop stairs to go up / down between Sky Plaza, 8th and 9th & Clock 8th Floor 3 floors. Please take the Priceless Moments of A Timeless City Gallery elevator to go down to the lobby.

Please take the elevator on 1st floor the right side Seoul11 Plaza, the open-air public lawn in front of City Hall, at the lobby has been the site of countless massive gatherings: to go up to from frenzied public cheering during World Cup Sky Plaza. competitions to candlelight protest vigils. The12 Plaza dates back to 1897 Lobby when King Gojong first proclaimed the Korean Empire. Metaseosa 2 5 Spiral Staircase It has since been a crucial staging ground for important Korean Seobeol historical13 moments: the 1919 March 1st Movement, Vertical Garden Please use the lobby the 1960 Revolution of April 19th, spiral staircase to and the 1987 June Democracy Movement. go down to the 1st 1 basement floor. 14 Main Entrance A digital clock was mounted on the City Hall to City Hall exterior from 1975 until Swatch Group replaced it Citizens Hall, by donating a more traditional analog clock in 2003. The tour starts. 1st Basement 6 The original digital clock was then reassigned as Floor a countdown clock to the beginning of the 2002 World Cup. Gungisi Relics When the former City Hall building was reborn15 as a library, Exhibition Hall the Swatch clock was replaced by a Romanson-made clock, colored in dancheong* red and Goryeo celadon blue. 7 Tok-Tok Design Shop ‘Danuri’ 10 * Korean traditional multicolored paintwork on wooden buildings

8 Open Lounge Seoul9 Plaza Clock

The tour ends!!!! Happy+ Shop, Sky Plaza Please take the elevator from Sky Plaza to the lobby. Under a special program, Happy+ Shop at Sky Plaza offers Koreans with physical challenges the opportunity to become baristas. st Basement Floor You ’ll love the world class, reasonably priced coffee they make, 1 along with gourmet cookies and other refreshments, as you take in the scenic view of Seoul Plaza. Lobby Spiral Staircase Opening Hours Please go down to the Mon to Fri, 07:30 ~18:00 1st basement floor. Weekends & holidays, 09:00~18:00 Seoul City Hall th floor The New Face of Seoul / seoul.go.kr 9 Citizens Hall Gungisi Relics Exhibition Hall Voice of the Citizens / seoulcitizenshall.kr This site was once a military weapons depot, or Gungisi in Korean, during the Joseon Dynasty (1392~1910). The ancient armaments were discovered during the construction of new City Hall, Seoul’s newly built City Hall was designed and visitors are welcome to view both the historic with two concepts in mind: ‘horizon’ and 8 th floor Gallery, Sky Plaza The Citizens Hall is located in the 1st basement relics and the excavation site. ‘deep shadow.’ Korea’s centuries-old level and has its own separate entrance for houses, known as Hanok, embody these maximum accessibility. The work of art in the Tok Tok Design Shop ‘Danuri’ concepts in the structure of their eaves, shape of an ear near the entrance reminds This shop sells goods produced by social enterprises that hire the underprivileged and physically and City Hall planners sought to invoke ‘Roads of Myth’ the Seoul Metropolitan Government of its challenged, as well as by start-ups by young people. describes the dynamic and Products include clothing, stationery, handicrafts, and re-interpret their beauty. The building enduring myth of Seoul unwavering pledge to listen to citizens’ voices . and souvenirs of Seoul City Hall and Citizens Hall. is 13 floors high above ground and reaches and communicate with them transparently. ‘Lights of Hope’ 5 floors below ground, with a total area represents the energy and Open Lounge optimism of Seoul citizens of 90,000 square meters. It is designed to Simply put, Citizens Hall is a place of the This lounge features diverse colored decks be eco-friendly, providing both pleasant ‘Whirlwind of Life’ citizens, for the citizens, and by the citizens. which can be moved and shifted according to the shades in summer and warmth in winter. symbolizes the constant communication needs of any given event. Every citizen can apply to between citizens and the city government. Citizens are allowed and encouraged to use participate in a ‘Vitality Concert’ that the space as venues for concerts, sharing takes place routinely in this lounge. The former City Hall building, right in front housekeeping markets, wedding ceremonies, of the City Hall, has been remade into The world’s largest vertical garden* inside Seoul City Hall: It starts on lectures, discussions, workshops, Citizen Podium Seoul Metropolitan Library and is open Once located at Cheonggye Plaza, the first floor and ascends all the and any other gatherings. to all citizens and visitors. The City Hall way up to the 7th floor. this Citizen Podium has been Ivy, scindapsus, and 12 other plant relocated here to Citizens Hall. contains administrative offices and publicly species grow free in this 1,516 8th floor Galley and the 9th Happy+ Shop Opening Hours 09:00~21:00 / Closed Mondays It gives ordinary citizens a public voice open spaces such as Citizens Hall and Sky square-meter indoor Eden. year round (closed Mondays). *Note: As of February 2013, the Guinness Book of

Plaza. Please use the elevator on right side of lobby to go up Records officially confirms that Seoul City Hall’s vertical garden is in as the largest in the world. Fair Trade Shop Villages of the World This shop offers visitors a chance to make small but important buying choices 9F Metaseosa Seobeol is an leading to a fairer world. It sells fair trade 8F Ready? award-winning installation coffee, chocolates, and other goods. Let’s Start Your Tour!!!! designed by Korean artist Jeon Sucheon. It is an •Menu Fair Trade Coffee (Americano ￦ 2,000), Chocolate ￦ 2,000 allegorical visualization •Opening Hours 09:00~21:00(Tuesday to Sunday & Holidays) , 1F of this 2000-year-old city *Closed Mondays Seoul, throughout the ages. B1 1st floor Now, please take the #13 elevator in front of City Gallery to go to Seoul Metropolitan Library. Lobby Metaseosa Seobeol*, Vertical Garden * Old name of Seoul City Hall’s Relic Exhibition Hall General Collections This exhibition hall displays mementos They are located both on the and decorations from old City Hall, first and second floors of the library. Tour Course which include up-down sliding windows and sections of plaster walls dating They have more than 70,000 from 1926. th floor books that can be read and 5 borrowed. Please use stairs to go down to Please use stairs to go Visitors are allowed to join4 the the 1st floor. down to the 4th floor. library membership at a Book Seoul Metropolitan Café, and to search and read digital versions of volumes Library Global Collections stored at the National Library3 5th Floor of Seoul of Korea and the National Metropolitan Originally Used As Gyeongseong City Hall / lib.seoul.go.kr Visitors are allowed to read books, Assembly Library. periodicals and newspapers donated Library by foreign embassies and cultural City Hall’s Relic 4 th floor institutions. Exhibition Hall From 1926, this 90-year-old building was 11 originally used as Gyeongseong, or Keijo, Please use stairs to go Please use stairs City Hall during the Japanese colonial down to the 3rd floor. Opening Hours to go outside. occupation of Korea. Korea was liberated in 1945, •Tue to Fri 09:00~21:00 Please use and the structure was rededicated as •Weekends 09:00~18:00 stairs to go 12 4th Floor Seoul City Hall in 1946. (Closed Mondays) up/down at Global Collections This building was registered as a cultural asset •Qualification for books on loan :membership holder the library. (Please apply for a membership at the library Website.) 5 Please use stairs to go 2 3rd Floor of Seoul City in 2003, as it is a living symbol of rd floor 3 down to the 2nd floor. •Number of books on loan :3 books per person 13 Seoul Archival Services, modern Korean history. Please take Former Mayor’s Office •Days of book on loan :14 days (7 days can be delayed one time) the elevator in In 2012, the building was transformed into Former Policy Planning Room & front of City 1st & 2nd Floors Former Mayor s Office 1 Gallery to go 14 Seoul Metropolitan Library. It represents the ’ General Collections up to the 5th capital city and is in fact the first library the Seoul These two rooms are emblematic of 20th century style architecture. Their original building materials were never floor of Seoul Seoul Plaza & Metropolitan Government has ever run by itself. damaged, and have been left exactly as they were. Metropolitan It serves both as a public library and an Visitors are allowed to sit at the old desk where many former Library. Library Clock mayors of Seoul carried out their official duties. 6 The tour ends. organization that develops broader It’s especially fun for kids who may have a dream of becoming library-related policies. mayor one day! 20 different documents that track turning points 15 Please go outside. in the history of Seoul are displayed on the table of the former policy planning room, offering visitors a window on the process of steering the capital city through historic change. 7 Fair Trade Shop 10 Villages of the World Seoul Archival Services 5F 8 Citizen Podium 4F 9 3F Visitors are allowed to search and read 2F various documents and academic papers 1F published by the Seoul Metropolitan Government, as well as the rare original documents that reveal the history of city neighborhoods and districts.