Stays · placeholder names

Where you sleep

Hanok guest houses with heated floors, small design hotels and a few stone houses by the sea. The names below are placeholders while we finish contracts placeholder: real property names. The kinds of place are real: this is how we choose.

A wooden hanok around a stone courtyard — Hanok courtyard, Seoul — Photo Jéan Béller / Unsplash

The Courtyard HousePlaceholder name

Seochon, Seoul · Hanok guest house · 4 rooms

Four rooms around a stone courtyard, five minutes from the palace wall. Beds or floor mattresses, your choice.

Namsan Tower above a wooded hill and the old stone wall — Namsan, Seoul — Photo Robson Hatsukami Morgan / Unsplash

Hill Studio HotelPlaceholder name

Hannam, Seoul · Design hotel · 30 rooms

A small hotel on the slope above the galleries, with a quiet bar and a view of Namsan.

A path to a village house with the hills behind — Hahoe Folk Village, Andong — Photo Austin Curtis / Unsplash

River Bend HousePlaceholder name

Hahoe village, Andong · Clan-village guest house · 3 rooms

An old family house in the village. Ondol floors, shared bathrooms, breakfast in the courtyard.

A hanok with a wooden bench in front — Hanok, Jeonju — Photo Minku Kang / Unsplash

Tile Roof InnPlaceholder name

Jeonju hanok village · Hanok inn · 6 rooms

Inside the hanok quarter, so the early mornings are yours. Private bathrooms added inside the old frame.

Palace pavilions lit at night beside the pond — Donggung Palace and Wolji Pond, Gyeongju — Photo john ko / Unsplash

Silla Garden HotelPlaceholder name

Near Daereungwon, Gyeongju · Boutique hotel · 18 rooms

A walk or a short bike ride from the royal tombs. Bikes come with the room.

Gwangan Bridge lit up over the bay at night — Gwangalli Beach, Busan — Photo Shibin Joseph / Unsplash

Harbour Light RoomsPlaceholder name

Haeundae, Busan · Sea-view hotel · 40 rooms

Rooms facing the bay, ten minutes by taxi from the coast path.

Tea Hill LodgePlaceholder name

Boseong · Farm stay · 5 rooms

On a family tea farm. Wake up to the rows, help with the picking in May.

Black volcanic rock on the shore — Jeju coast — Photo miram Oh / Unsplash

Basalt HousePlaceholder name

East coast, Jeju · Stone house · 2 houses

Two restored stone houses behind a basalt wall, near a diving village.

Granite ridges rising out of fog — Seoraksan — Photo Alexandre Chambon / Unsplash

Pine Ridge RoomsPlaceholder name

Sokcho, Gangwon · Mountain hotel · 24 rooms

Between the park entrance and the sea, so a ridge walk and a fish supper fit in one day.

How we choose

01
We stay there first. A place goes on the list after one of us has slept in it, not after a site visit.
02
Small over grand. Most have fewer than thirty rooms, many fewer than ten.
03
The floor question. Every hanok on the list has at least one room with a raised bed, for knees that need one.
04
Walkable. In cities, we choose by neighbourhood first; see the Seoul picker.

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