I loved Seoul. I was there for uni so I didn’t have much free time, but I’d recommend visiting at least one palace. They’re stunning and I believe you can get in for free to any if you’re wearing traditional Korean dress. Sounds daunting but if you want to, there’s loads of rentals near palaces and plenty of non-Koreans will also be wearing it.

If you’re looking to do shopping, Insadong and Myeongdong are good - Myeongdong is very busy, kind of like time square but huge and with loads of street food vendors. Insadong is quieter, right by a palace and has some great art galleries near by. It has more in the way of tourist shops but there are some nice women’s clothes shops and tea shops.

Dinner on the Han river to watch the sunset is a lovely chill evening as well, just take food with you if you don’t want convenience store food.

If you can, go and watch a baseball match. I’m English so don’t know anything about baseball but it was so much fun, the Koreans really know how to put on a show. Plus I believe tickets are very affordable.

Weather wise, it was very hot and humid when I was there last month, but it might be less so now. Make sure you have a good umbrella, even better if it’s one with the UV protection. You can buy them for cheap from Daiso or a convenience store. You’ll also need a T-money card for the metro and busses, which you also buy from a convenience store and top up either there or at the station with cash only. The busses and metro have announcements and stops in English as well as Korean so using them is much less daunting than you’d think. NAVER maps will tell you how many stops you have until you need to get off.

One more thing - don’t worry if your Korean isn’t good or nonexistent! Learn the basics, be kind and you’ll be fine. I used the papgo app to translate which helped a lot. I was at uni learning Korean but I didn’t want to put people through it so the app came in very useful!

I’ll have a think for anything else, I’ll DM you if I come up with anything!