Affiliate disclosure

What it means in practice

The booking links and availability widgets here go to GetYourGuide, a licensed online travel agency. If you book after following one, GetYourGuide pays me a percentage of what you spent. You pay exactly what you would have paid going to GetYourGuide directly, because the commission comes out of their margin rather than your pocket. Prices printed on this site are the “from” figures GetYourGuide displayed at the time of writing, and the widget beside them re-prices by date, party size and the option you choose.

What it does not mean

It does not buy a recommendation, and the shape of this site is the evidence. The page I push hardest is what is free at the top, which exists to tell you that the plaza, the terraces and every outdoor viewpoint on Namsan cost nothing and that on a hazy day they are better than the ticket. I earn precisely nothing when you read that and decide not to buy. The next hardest is the shuttle bus page, which points you at a ₩1,100 public bus instead of anything I am paid for.

What I am not

Not a tour operator, not the tower, not its operator, and not GetYourGuide. I never name the operator behind a listing; I name guides only when reviewers name them first. Ratings and review counts are copied from GetYourGuide unrounded and always sit beside a live widget so you can see the current figure for yourself. Where the reviewer material is thin I say so on the page instead of inventing more of it, which is why two of the six reviews open by telling you how few reviews there are. Gate prices and opening hours quoted here are the published position at the time of writing — confirm them with the venue before you travel.

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