Culture Experience and Performance Package Tour(16)

Why Cosmojin

Welcome to Cosmojin. Thanks for your interest and support for our service.

Cosmojin travel has run Seoul daily city tour for more than 15 years. We developed the most attractive tour packages for visitors and will continue to create new programs to meet international traveler’s need.

We help you to plan your own Seoul city tour with well-prepared theme and organized time table. You will find the most convenient way to enjoy Seoul with Cosmojin.

We hire the best tour guides with good service experience especially for foreigners and they all get great feedbacks from the customers. They are all proud of what they do for visitors to make your every corner of visits memorable and meaningful.

Transportation is another important things define travel quality. We provides brand new and clean cars with reasonable price for various tour packages.

There is Korean saying "Even a chance meeting is due to the Karma in a previous life." We will serve you as our family and friend as we want you to remember the time with us as a great memory. There are so much fun in Seoul and we cannot wait to introduce all of them. It does not matter morning, afternoon or late night. You will be surprised what you can enjoy in every second. We look forward to meeting you soon. You will enjoy guided tour with interesting secret and meaningful information that you cannot find elsewhere. Aren’t you excited about the best guide, the best customer, the best place and the best tour course?

Tour Highlights

Nanta Theater is Korea's first exclusive venue for Nanta performances, which are based on the rhythm of the samulnori (traditional Korean percussion quartet) and are comic non-verbal plays set in a kitchen. Nanta has been a sell-out success at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in the UK and was also the first long-running Korean show on Broadway in New York City. The shows have been so successful that they now run at three exclusive theaters in Seoul which are equipped with special lighting and sound systems to create maximum audience impact. Around 380,000 international tourists visit Nanta Theater every year.

How Nanta Conquered the World

At Nanta Theater, the show "Nanta," is performed every day. As a non-verbal show it transcends language barriers and has been a huge hit with critics and audiences around the world. In fact "Nanta" boasts the highest attendance figures for any show in the history of Korean performing arts.

When the lights dim and the music begins, audiences of all ages are immediately transfixed as performers play percussion on kitchen utensils including knives and cutting boards, transformed into musical instruments. Nanta shows are also interactive and audience members are often invited on stage to join in the fun.

What You Can Expect

Do you want to know Korean culture in a short time? Choose tour 16!
Make Korean food for yourself, feel the excitement of Korea with a Nanta performance, understand Korea through 600 years of Seoul history. You will be much more familiar with Korean culture.
Your chance at cooking Korean food that you learned about from Korean movies and TV shows is waiting you. After experiencing the Korean food culture, you can learn about Seoul, the 600-year-old capital since the Joseon Dynasty, in the Seoul Museum of History. Also learn about Gyeongbokgung Palace where the last king of Joseon stayed and worked for his people.
Feel the latest mood of Seoul in Myungdong, the perfect street for shopping! Street markets down alleys and the variety of food will amuse your shopping even more!
Take the time to experience the sound and rhythm of Korea with Nanta performance with a reinterpretation of Korean traditional melody left for the finish. You will surely fall in love with the powerful, amazing, exciting performance!

Highlights
- Cooking your own Korean dish! The special chance to experience real Korean food.
- The Seoul Museum of History, the place to solve every single curiosity of the capital city with 600 years of history.
- Explore Gyeongbokgung Palace, the largest of the Five Grand Palaces and arguably Seoul's most beautiful
- Street heaven for shopping, Myungdong : Lotte department store and duty-free shop.
- Modern approach to Korean traditional sound and rhythm. Feel the music without words, Nanta the nonverbal performance.

Information

Course

• 

  Hotel
• 

  Cooking Korean food Experience

  All culture of country is concentrated in their food. Not only eating in some restaurants without any understanding of Korean food culture and history, it will be the chance to naturally learn about Korea and Korean food by cooking, during listening about history in the food culture. After you learn about the Korean food culture, You will start to learn a recipe whatever you like such as Bulgogi, Kimchi, Dasik(Korean traditional cookie) which are very popular for foreign tourists, and of course tteokbokki that is the most famous street food in Korea. Cook what you like with professional guides who can speak both English and Japanese. Take pictures of Korean food that is made by yourself in Hanbok, Korean traditional costume, and show it to your friends.

• 

  Lunch(Bibimbap)

  Bibimbap (Korean pronunciation: [bibimbap], sometimes anglicized bi bim bap or bi bim bop) is a signature Korean dish. The word literally means "mixed rice". Bibimbap is served as a bowl of warm white rice topped with namul (sautéed and seasoned vegetables) and gochujang (chili pepper paste), soy sauce, or doenjang, a salty soybean paste. A raw or fried egg and sliced meat (usually beef) are common additions. The hot dish is stirred together thoroughly just before eating. In South Korea, Jeonju, Jinju, and Tongyeong are especially famous for their versions of bibimbap. In 2011, it was listed at number 40 on the World's 50 most delicious foods readers' poll compiled by CNN Travel

• 

  Seoul Museum of History

  Even people who were born and raised in Seoul often cannot answer questions about Seoul correctly. Visiting the Seoul museum of history will solve your curiosity about Seoul, the capital city for 600 years since Joseon Dynasty. Seoul museum of History is where you can rediscover the history of Seoul. It is divided into four sections from prehistoric age to modern times. You will learn about the birth of Joseon Dynasty and the interestingly rearranged stories of until these days. There is Geomcheon Bridge which is prove that the museum was once where Gyeonghuigung Palace was placed in front of the museum. You can see a old tram in the front yard, parts of demolished Gwanghwamun(reconstructed and assembled with wood in traditional way) which will show you the checkered history of Seoul. Permanent exhibition hall presents the details about stream of Seoul history and culture such as the ceremonial walk of King of Joseon Dynasty and the Yookcho street of Hanyang City(Seoul’s old name in Joseon era). Western building is where you can `go back to the turbulent times of Korean empire government since they open their ports to foreign powers, and its rough history with the Korean War. You can see the change and development of Seoul is passing fast every seconds. Different exhibitions are always opened in project exhibition room about various hidden histories. Also the museum is opened free.

• 

  Gyeongbok Palace

  Kyeongbokgung Palace is one of the oldest of the five places in Seoul. It is such a great and magnificent building as a representative of Joseon Dynasty. It shows off the beauty of its construction.Through this, it can be a representative tourism spot for foreigners to understand the tradition and history of Korea.This tour course takes around one and a half hours; you will see remarkable pavilions like Kyunghoiru and Hyangwonjung, and beautiful/classy wooden and stone structures as Kyungcheonsaji 10-story tower, you also will see Kyotaejeon and Kangnyungjun places where you can experience the life of noble people with a guide.

   

  The choicest tour place for foreign tourists.
  Gyungbok-gung Palace is the starting point of 500 years of history in Joseon Dynasty.
  You will defiantly enjoy the stroll around the place feeling the quiet and peaceful mood.
  It can be a representative tourism spot for foreigners to understand the tradition and history of Korea.
  If you want to know the history of Korea properly, you should visit this place.

• 

  The Royal Guard Changing Ceremony

  Every hour on the hour from 10 am to 4pm, the chief gatekeeper changing ceremony has been continued, which happened during Joseon Dynasty symbolizing safety of the kings and security of the nation, and guiding of the prestige.

  Consistency expressionless face expression and sobriety mood of chief gatekeepers at the ceremony stimulates the foreign tourists’ interests.

• 

  Myeongdong

  Myeong-dong is the primary tourist spot of Korea for foreign visitors, over 1.5 million people gather here a day.
  This place is like a huge show-window that you can check out all the trends of Korean.
  Not only can you see clothing, miscellaneous items, and cosmetics; you can also taste various trendy street foods of Korea.

   

• 

  Lotte Department Store

  Lotte department store is the largest shopping complex in Seoul where you can find life style of middle class of Seoul city. Lotte department store is the largest shopping complex in Seoul where you can find not only various international and local brands but also the life style of Seoulite at a glance how Korean people live, wear and eat. It is not surprise to see many visitors enjoy the free bites of Korean food at the food court downstairs located on B1. Lotte Duty free shop has the latest luxury fashion products are prepared with very attractive seasonal discount deal. On 1st floor of duty free shop, there is K-pop culture photo zone and you will see many visitors enjoying taking photos.

• 

  Nanta

  A Non-verbal performance integrates Korea’s traditional rhythm, Samulnori, with comedy and drama in the kitchen. Audiences of all ages and nationalities can enjoy. The musical has a simple back story of three cooks attempting to finish preparing a wedding banquet within a strict time limit while the manager installs his incompetent nephew among the kitchen staff. The show involves acrobatics, magic tricks, comedy, pantomime and audience participation. The unifying element throughout the musical is the use of traditional Korean samul nori music, which in this case is performed with improvised instruments, such as cutting boards, water canisters and kitchen knives. The performance is almost completely non-verbal.

  Nanta is the first nonverbal performance in Korea, which is only composed by rhythm and beats. 4 chefs are performing Samulnori (traditional percussion quartet) with kitchenware during the process of cooking for a wedding reception. Nanta is the representative musical in Korea both nominally and virtually. It is also renowned overseas and already 10 million viewers watched this show.

• 

  Hotel

Reviews

Why Cosmojin

Welcome to Cosmojin. Thanks for your interest and support for our service.

Cosmojin travel has run Seoul daily city tour for more than 15 years. We developed the most attractive tour packages for visitors and will continue to create new programs to meet international traveler’s need.

We help you to plan your own Seoul city tour with well-prepared theme and organized time table. You will find the most convenient way to enjoy Seoul with Cosmojin.

We hire the best tour guides with good service experience especially for foreigners and they all get great feedbacks from the customers. They are all proud of what they do for visitors to make your every corner of visits memorable and meaningful.

Transportation is another important things define travel quality. We provides brand new and clean cars with reasonable price for various tour packages.

There is Korean saying "Even a chance meeting is due to the Karma in a previous life." We will serve you as our family and friend as we want you to remember the time with us as a great memory. There are so much fun in Seoul and we cannot wait to introduce all of them. It does not matter morning, afternoon or late night. You will be surprised what you can enjoy in every second. We look forward to meeting you soon. You will enjoy guided tour with interesting secret and meaningful information that you cannot find elsewhere. Aren’t you excited about the best guide, the best customer, the best place and the best tour course?

Tour Highlights

Nanta Theater is Korea's first exclusive venue for Nanta performances, which are based on the rhythm of the samulnori (traditional Korean percussion quartet) and are comic non-verbal plays set in a kitchen. Nanta has been a sell-out success at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in the UK and was also the first long-running Korean show on Broadway in New York City. The shows have been so successful that they now run at three exclusive theaters in Seoul which are equipped with special lighting and sound systems to create maximum audience impact. Around 380,000 international tourists visit Nanta Theater every year.

How Nanta Conquered the World

At Nanta Theater, the show "Nanta," is performed every day. As a non-verbal show it transcends language barriers and has been a huge hit with critics and audiences around the world. In fact "Nanta" boasts the highest attendance figures for any show in the history of Korean performing arts.

When the lights dim and the music begins, audiences of all ages are immediately transfixed as performers play percussion on kitchen utensils including knives and cutting boards, transformed into musical instruments. Nanta shows are also interactive and audience members are often invited on stage to join in the fun.

What You Can Expect

Do you want to know Korean culture in a short time? Choose tour 16!
Make Korean food for yourself, feel the excitement of Korea with a Nanta performance, understand Korea through 600 years of Seoul history. You will be much more familiar with Korean culture.
Your chance at cooking Korean food that you learned about from Korean movies and TV shows is waiting you. After experiencing the Korean food culture, you can learn about Seoul, the 600-year-old capital since the Joseon Dynasty, in the Seoul Museum of History. Also learn about Gyeongbokgung Palace where the last king of Joseon stayed and worked for his people.
Feel the latest mood of Seoul in Myungdong, the perfect street for shopping! Street markets down alleys and the variety of food will amuse your shopping even more!
Take the time to experience the sound and rhythm of Korea with Nanta performance with a reinterpretation of Korean traditional melody left for the finish. You will surely fall in love with the powerful, amazing, exciting performance!

Highlights
- Cooking your own Korean dish! The special chance to experience real Korean food.
- The Seoul Museum of History, the place to solve every single curiosity of the capital city with 600 years of history.
- Explore Gyeongbokgung Palace, the largest of the Five Grand Palaces and arguably Seoul's most beautiful
- Street heaven for shopping, Myungdong : Lotte department store and duty-free shop.
- Modern approach to Korean traditional sound and rhythm. Feel the music without words, Nanta the nonverbal performance.

Information

Tour Included

Guide, Transportation, Ticket, Lunch, Hotel Pick up & Drop off Service (in Seoul)

Pick-up & Sending Service

1. Pick-up and drop-off service may be delayed due to traffic.

Payment / Cancelation

1. Cancel by 12:00 one day before the performance: 100% REFUND
2. Cancel after 12:00 one day before the performance: NO REFUND

Note

1. Nanta Ticket is S seat / Extra charge for upgrade
2. Gyeongbok Palace will be replaced with Deoksu Palace on Tuesdays.
3. The Guard Changing Ceremony at Gyeongbok Palace will be cancelled in case of rain or snow.
4. In case some sites of the tours are closed, a visit to alternative places will apply.
5. For your safety, stay with the group and follow the directions of the guide during a group tour.
6. Cosmojin cannot take responsibility for any injuries or losses incurred while on tour.

LIABLITY INSURANCE (CLAIMS-MAKD BASIS). 
Cosmojin is registered in liability insurance corresponding KRW 300,000,000 for travel business license.

- The customers are not registered for accident insurance covering the medical expenses in case of accidents happening on the day of the event, so please check beforehand with the tour guide if customers are registered with travel insurance from homeland.

- Please refer to the special terms and conditions on the website for insurance coverage.

Reviews

Why Cosmojin

Welcome to Cosmojin. Thanks for your interest and support for our service.

Cosmojin travel has run Seoul daily city tour for more than 15 years. We developed the most attractive tour packages for visitors and will continue to create new programs to meet international traveler’s need.

We help you to plan your own Seoul city tour with well-prepared theme and organized time table. You will find the most convenient way to enjoy Seoul with Cosmojin.

We hire the best tour guides with good service experience especially for foreigners and they all get great feedbacks from the customers. They are all proud of what they do for visitors to make your every corner of visits memorable and meaningful.

Transportation is another important things define travel quality. We provides brand new and clean cars with reasonable price for various tour packages.

There is Korean saying "Even a chance meeting is due to the Karma in a previous life." We will serve you as our family and friend as we want you to remember the time with us as a great memory. There are so much fun in Seoul and we cannot wait to introduce all of them. It does not matter morning, afternoon or late night. You will be surprised what you can enjoy in every second. We look forward to meeting you soon. You will enjoy guided tour with interesting secret and meaningful information that you cannot find elsewhere. Aren’t you excited about the best guide, the best customer, the best place and the best tour course?

Tour Highlights

Nanta Theater is Korea's first exclusive venue for Nanta performances, which are based on the rhythm of the samulnori (traditional Korean percussion quartet) and are comic non-verbal plays set in a kitchen. Nanta has been a sell-out success at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in the UK and was also the first long-running Korean show on Broadway in New York City. The shows have been so successful that they now run at three exclusive theaters in Seoul which are equipped with special lighting and sound systems to create maximum audience impact. Around 380,000 international tourists visit Nanta Theater every year.

How Nanta Conquered the World

At Nanta Theater, the show "Nanta," is performed every day. As a non-verbal show it transcends language barriers and has been a huge hit with critics and audiences around the world. In fact "Nanta" boasts the highest attendance figures for any show in the history of Korean performing arts.

When the lights dim and the music begins, audiences of all ages are immediately transfixed as performers play percussion on kitchen utensils including knives and cutting boards, transformed into musical instruments. Nanta shows are also interactive and audience members are often invited on stage to join in the fun.

What You Can Expect

Do you want to know Korean culture in a short time? Choose tour 16!
Make Korean food for yourself, feel the excitement of Korea with a Nanta performance, understand Korea through 600 years of Seoul history. You will be much more familiar with Korean culture.
Your chance at cooking Korean food that you learned about from Korean movies and TV shows is waiting you. After experiencing the Korean food culture, you can learn about Seoul, the 600-year-old capital since the Joseon Dynasty, in the Seoul Museum of History. Also learn about Gyeongbokgung Palace where the last king of Joseon stayed and worked for his people.
Feel the latest mood of Seoul in Myungdong, the perfect street for shopping! Street markets down alleys and the variety of food will amuse your shopping even more!
Take the time to experience the sound and rhythm of Korea with Nanta performance with a reinterpretation of Korean traditional melody left for the finish. You will surely fall in love with the powerful, amazing, exciting performance!

Highlights
- Cooking your own Korean dish! The special chance to experience real Korean food.
- The Seoul Museum of History, the place to solve every single curiosity of the capital city with 600 years of history.
- Explore Gyeongbokgung Palace, the largest of the Five Grand Palaces and arguably Seoul's most beautiful
- Street heaven for shopping, Myungdong : Lotte department store and duty-free shop.
- Modern approach to Korean traditional sound and rhythm. Feel the music without words, Nanta the nonverbal performance.

Information

Tour Included

Guide, Transportation, Ticket, Lunch, Hotel Pick up & Drop off Service (in Seoul)

Pick-up & Sending Service

1. Pick-up and drop-off service may be delayed due to traffic.

Payment / Cancelation

1. Cancel by 12:00 one day before the performance: 100% REFUND
2. Cancel after 12:00 one day before the performance: NO REFUND

Note

1. Nanta Ticket is S seat / Extra charge for upgrade
2. Gyeongbok Palace will be replaced with Deoksu Palace on Tuesdays.
3. The Guard Changing Ceremony at Gyeongbok Palace will be cancelled in case of rain or snow.
4. In case some sites of the tours are closed, a visit to alternative places will apply.
5. For your safety, stay with the group and follow the directions of the guide during a group tour.
6. Cosmojin cannot take responsibility for any injuries or losses incurred while on tour.

LIABLITY INSURANCE (CLAIMS-MAKD BASIS). 
Cosmojin is registered in liability insurance corresponding KRW 300,000,000 for travel business license.

- The customers are not registered for accident insurance covering the medical expenses in case of accidents happening on the day of the event, so please check beforehand with the tour guide if customers are registered with travel insurance from homeland.

- Please refer to the special terms and conditions on the website for insurance coverage.

Course

• 

  Hotel
• 

  Cooking Korean food Experience

  All culture of country is concentrated in their food. Not only eating in some restaurants without any understanding of Korean food culture and history, it will be the chance to naturally learn about Korea and Korean food by cooking, during listening about history in the food culture. After you learn about the Korean food culture, You will start to learn a recipe whatever you like such as Bulgogi, Kimchi, Dasik(Korean traditional cookie) which are very popular for foreign tourists, and of course tteokbokki that is the most famous street food in Korea. Cook what you like with professional guides who can speak both English and Japanese. Take pictures of Korean food that is made by yourself in Hanbok, Korean traditional costume, and show it to your friends.

• 

  Lunch(Bibimbap)

  Bibimbap (Korean pronunciation: [bibimbap], sometimes anglicized bi bim bap or bi bim bop) is a signature Korean dish. The word literally means "mixed rice". Bibimbap is served as a bowl of warm white rice topped with namul (sautéed and seasoned vegetables) and gochujang (chili pepper paste), soy sauce, or doenjang, a salty soybean paste. A raw or fried egg and sliced meat (usually beef) are common additions. The hot dish is stirred together thoroughly just before eating. In South Korea, Jeonju, Jinju, and Tongyeong are especially famous for their versions of bibimbap. In 2011, it was listed at number 40 on the World's 50 most delicious foods readers' poll compiled by CNN Travel

• 

  Seoul Museum of History

  Even people who were born and raised in Seoul often cannot answer questions about Seoul correctly. Visiting the Seoul museum of history will solve your curiosity about Seoul, the capital city for 600 years since Joseon Dynasty. Seoul museum of History is where you can rediscover the history of Seoul. It is divided into four sections from prehistoric age to modern times. You will learn about the birth of Joseon Dynasty and the interestingly rearranged stories of until these days. There is Geomcheon Bridge which is prove that the museum was once where Gyeonghuigung Palace was placed in front of the museum. You can see a old tram in the front yard, parts of demolished Gwanghwamun(reconstructed and assembled with wood in traditional way) which will show you the checkered history of Seoul. Permanent exhibition hall presents the details about stream of Seoul history and culture such as the ceremonial walk of King of Joseon Dynasty and the Yookcho street of Hanyang City(Seoul’s old name in Joseon era). Western building is where you can `go back to the turbulent times of Korean empire government since they open their ports to foreign powers, and its rough history with the Korean War. You can see the change and development of Seoul is passing fast every seconds. Different exhibitions are always opened in project exhibition room about various hidden histories. Also the museum is opened free.

• 

  Gyeongbok Palace

  Kyeongbokgung Palace is one of the oldest of the five places in Seoul. It is such a great and magnificent building as a representative of Joseon Dynasty. It shows off the beauty of its construction.Through this, it can be a representative tourism spot for foreigners to understand the tradition and history of Korea.This tour course takes around one and a half hours; you will see remarkable pavilions like Kyunghoiru and Hyangwonjung, and beautiful/classy wooden and stone structures as Kyungcheonsaji 10-story tower, you also will see Kyotaejeon and Kangnyungjun places where you can experience the life of noble people with a guide.

   

  The choicest tour place for foreign tourists.
  Gyungbok-gung Palace is the starting point of 500 years of history in Joseon Dynasty.
  You will defiantly enjoy the stroll around the place feeling the quiet and peaceful mood.
  It can be a representative tourism spot for foreigners to understand the tradition and history of Korea.
  If you want to know the history of Korea properly, you should visit this place.

• 

  The Royal Guard Changing Ceremony

  Every hour on the hour from 10 am to 4pm, the chief gatekeeper changing ceremony has been continued, which happened during Joseon Dynasty symbolizing safety of the kings and security of the nation, and guiding of the prestige.

  Consistency expressionless face expression and sobriety mood of chief gatekeepers at the ceremony stimulates the foreign tourists’ interests.

• 

  Myeongdong

  Myeong-dong is the primary tourist spot of Korea for foreign visitors, over 1.5 million people gather here a day.
  This place is like a huge show-window that you can check out all the trends of Korean.
  Not only can you see clothing, miscellaneous items, and cosmetics; you can also taste various trendy street foods of Korea.

   

• 

  Lotte Department Store

  Lotte department store is the largest shopping complex in Seoul where you can find life style of middle class of Seoul city. Lotte department store is the largest shopping complex in Seoul where you can find not only various international and local brands but also the life style of Seoulite at a glance how Korean people live, wear and eat. It is not surprise to see many visitors enjoy the free bites of Korean food at the food court downstairs located on B1. Lotte Duty free shop has the latest luxury fashion products are prepared with very attractive seasonal discount deal. On 1st floor of duty free shop, there is K-pop culture photo zone and you will see many visitors enjoying taking photos.

• 

  Nanta

  A Non-verbal performance integrates Korea’s traditional rhythm, Samulnori, with comedy and drama in the kitchen. Audiences of all ages and nationalities can enjoy. The musical has a simple back story of three cooks attempting to finish preparing a wedding banquet within a strict time limit while the manager installs his incompetent nephew among the kitchen staff. The show involves acrobatics, magic tricks, comedy, pantomime and audience participation. The unifying element throughout the musical is the use of traditional Korean samul nori music, which in this case is performed with improvised instruments, such as cutting boards, water canisters and kitchen knives. The performance is almost completely non-verbal.

  Nanta is the first nonverbal performance in Korea, which is only composed by rhythm and beats. 4 chefs are performing Samulnori (traditional percussion quartet) with kitchenware during the process of cooking for a wedding reception. Nanta is the representative musical in Korea both nominally and virtually. It is also renowned overseas and already 10 million viewers watched this show.

• 

  Hotel