As you enter Mokdong, a village located on the west of Seoul, the first thing you might see is the apartments, and then students with school uniforms, and lastly a bunch of trees. Since it is a government-planned village, all the roads and apartments are built very neatly and many trees are planted on every road and around all apartments. However, not many tourists visit here since there aren’t many tourist attractions or places to enjoy something special and it is more centered on education. Then why did CAH chose Mokdong for June? Despite your thinking, there are many things to enjoy and to eat here. Places to visit include the baseball stadium, SBS Broadcasting Center, department stores, Anyangcheon Stream, and so on, and CAH is going to show some of them. Mokdong apartments is range over Mokdong and Shinjeong-dong, so the locations will include Shinjeong-dong as well.
CAU --Subway Line Number 9 --> Yeouido --> Subway Line Number 5 --> Omokgyo Station
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Mokdong Ice Rink à Mokdong Shooting Range à Lee Jae-won Mokdong Pizza à DalDal-ae Bakery à Park Paris
Mokdong Ice Rink
During the hot summer, the best place to avoid the heat is the Mokdong Ice Rink. However, there aren’t many Ice Rinks which are open for all citizens in Seoul, except the Yeoido and Lotte World Ice Rinks, for example. However at the Mokdong Ice Rink, you can enjoy skating for about 6 hours with a cheap price. The equipment is also well prepared that there aren’t big burdens for enjoying. What’s more, you can also learn skating more deeply from skilled skaters, even though you aren’t a professional player. During the vacation term (July and August), the operation time is expanded by two additional hours and figure skating performances are sometimes held for everyone. Enjoy leisure sports and avoid the heat in hot summer together in the Mokdong Ice Rink.
Operating Hours: Weekdays 14:00~18:00, Weekends 12:00~18:00
Admission Fees: Adults 4000won; Holidays (including Saturdays) 5200won
Contact Info: 02-2649-8454 / Location: Anyangcheon-ro 939, Yangcheon-gu, Seoul
Mokdong Shooting Range
Unlike usual shooting ranges in Seoul, Mokdong provides not only ball firing, but also air pistols, and provides various services with 25 lanes and a number of guns. Therefore, many families and couples try to visit and want to gain opportunities to relieve their stress and experience something special. If you are interested in shooting as a sport, you can also get lessons from the experts. The most attractive point is that it is located right next to the ice rink so that you can enjoy these things together on the same day.
Operating time: 9:30~18:00
Admission Fees: Air pistol, Revolver: 5000won for 10 shots / live ammunition: 15,000~40,000 won for 1 round (10 shots) / Price contains rental fees
Contact Info: 02-2646-9993 / Location: 939 Anyangcheon-ro Yangcheon-gu, Seoul
Park Paris
For the 100th memorial of Korean and French relations, the Park Paris was opened on the first day of July in 1987. The noticeable point is that after establishing diplomatic relations in 1886, the Seoul Park was also built in Paris. The internal facilities also show the meaning of special relationships that you can see in the Seoul Square and Paris Square, the outdoor stage, the pond, the fountains and so on. Especially in the Seoul Square, there are many Korean trees and yin-yang patterned symbols on the floor, contrasted with a French-style flower garden and French trees planted in the Paris Square. Beside the squares, on the outdoor stage, various performances are held and outdoor wedding ceremonies were also held before but not now. People now take wedding photos more than having ceremonies here. It is the best place to walk and have a rest after you eat a meal, talking with your friends or families. In vacation time, many cultural performances and face paintings events will be going on, so do not miss out!
Admission Fees: N/A
Operating Hours: Unlimited
Contact Info: 02-2620-3576 / Location: 363 Mokdong-dongro, Yangcheon-gu, Seoul
Lee Jae-won Mokdong Pizza
Lee Jae-won Mokdong Pizza is a pizza restaurant opened by Lee Jae-won who posed a question, “Why isn’t there any pizza named related to Korea in Korea such as Chicago Pizza in the USA?” Therefore, all the menu names at this restaurant are named in Korean style, such as “Mokdong,” “Arirang,” and “Mugoonghwa.” The characteristic of the pizza can be found from the ingredients. The pizza is well eaten because of using Korean Imsil Cheese and New Zealand’s Fonterra cheese. Moreover, the black rice dough and hand-made tomato sauces add to its favor the best and are not that overly-stimulating. What’s more, they fix the daily sales volumes and try to coexist with other surrounding restaurants.
Price: Pizza – 15,000 won (Mokdong, Arirang, Mugoonghwa), One Piece of Pizza – 6000 won, Salad + Black Rice Bread – 4500 won
Operating Hours: 12:00~21:00 (each day from 15:00 ~ 16:00 is break time)
Contact Info: 02-2652-0815 / Location: 1st floor of 53, Mokdong-dongro, Yangcheon-gu, Seoul
DalDal-ae Bakery
The main sign of a bakery “DalDal-ae” is selected as the most beautiful and fancy sign of October, in 2015. As we can see through the picture, most of the interiors done inside and outside by the owner of the bakery which are very charming and cute. It was also shown on the TV show “Master of Livelihood”, too. The main food of this bakery is various flavors of the plain breads, such as chocolate, almond cream, ink cheese, chestnut and so on. You can enjoy them with delicious coffee and fresh juice which do not contain any artificial addictive. Since it does not contain any artificial, you need to eat both breads and juices before the 24 hours pass, but also feels relieved. How about having a coffee time at cute bakery after eating the meal? Your family will
Price: Choco, Almond cream, Ink cheese bread: 4500 won, Chestnut bread: 4800, Americano 3000won
Operating Hours: Weekday 7:30~18:00, Saturday 7:30~15:00 (Bread Prepared at 11:30)
Contact Info: 010-7543-0701 / Location: 11gil 2, Mokdong-ro, Yangcheon-gu, Seoul
Aren’t there many things to enjoy in mok-dong on the opposite of your thought? There are also many places to enjoy culture such as more than one department store, Kyo-bo book center, movie theater since Mok-dong is a kind of place for dwelling. The ice rink, shooting range, and baseball par is the most special thing in here since we cannot enjoy both 3 of them anywhere around Seoul. Transportation and well maintained public order would make you to be feel relaxed, too. So, if you want to do leisure activities and want to walk around the trees, why not come here and have a good time?