Why travel to China?
China offers 3 curated city guides, 51 attractions and 21 signature dishes hand-picked by Korean travelers. Below you'll find essentials Korean passport holders actually need — visa requirements, daily budgets in USD, best season, and on-the-ground transport tips.
Best Season
Autumn (September-October) is best, with clear and cool weather. Spring brings yellow dust, summer is sweltering, and winter is bitterly cold.
Budget
Daily budget around $55-105 (accommodation $30-55, meals $15-30, transport and entry $15-20).
Visa
Korean passport holders can enter visa-free for 15 days (check 2024 extended-policy updates).
Transport
About 25 minutes by Airport Express from Beijing Capital Airport to downtown. The subway network is extensive, and DiDi (China's ride-hailing app) is handy. SIM cards are available at the airport, but Google and KakaoTalk are blocked without a VPN. WeChat Pay and Alipay are the main payment methods; foreign visitors should register for Alipay Tour Pass. Tipping is not customary.
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🗺️ Attractions Across the Country
Forbidden City (Palace Museum)
The world's largest ancient palace complex, with around 9,000 rooms that once housed the Ming and Qing emperors.
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Great Wall of China
One of the Seven Wonders of the World - humanity's largest construction project, stretching over 20,000km.
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Temple of Heaven
A UNESCO site where emperors offered sacrifices to heaven, featuring a geometrically perfect circular altar.
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Summer Palace
The Qing imperial summer retreat — a masterpiece garden centered on Kunming Lake and Longevity Hill.
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Tiananmen Square
The world's largest city square and the political heart of modern China.
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Hutong (Nanluoguxiang)
Centuries-old siheyuan courtyard alleys from the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties — Beijing's traditional old town.
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Wangfujing Street
Beijing's 700-year-old premier shopping and snack street, famous for its night market.
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Beihai Park
An imperial garden dating back to the Liao, Jin, and Yuan dynasties, centered on the White Dagoba and Beihai Lake.
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Jingshan Park
An artificial hill park just north of the Forbidden City, famous for its panoramic view of the palace from the summit.
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Yonghegong Lama Temple
Beijing's largest Tibetan Buddhist temple, once the private residence of Emperor Yongzheng before his enthronement.
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Beijing Ancient Observatory
A working astronomical observatory used for 500 years since the Yuan dynasty, its rooftop still lined with bronze instruments.
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National Museum of China
One of the world's largest museums, on the east side of Tiananmen Square, chronicling 5,000 years of Chinese civilization.
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Prince Gong's Mansion
The largest surviving princely mansion of the Qing dynasty, once the estate of corrupt official Heshen before passing to Prince Gong.
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798 Art Zone
Beijing's premier contemporary art district, converted from a former military electronics factory complex.
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Fragrant Hills Park
A mountain park in northwest Beijing famed for autumn foliage, reachable by cable car to the summit.
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Capital Museum
A major city museum tracing 3,000 years of Beijing's history, notable for its bronze and ceramics collections.
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Beijing Olympic Park (Bird's Nest & Water Cube)
The icon of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, home to the Bird's Nest National Stadium and the Water Cube aquatics center.
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The Bund
The dramatic contrast of colonial-era buildings along the Huangpu and Pudong's modern skyscrapers across the river.
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Yu Garden
A classical Ming-dynasty garden tucked in the heart of downtown Shanghai.
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Oriental Pearl Tower
The icon of Pudong's skyline, with a transparent observation deck offering a thrilling view of the city below your feet.
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Shanghai Disneyland
Mainland China's first Disney theme park, anchored by the world's largest Cinderella Castle.
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Tianzifang
An artistic alley district in the former French Concession, set in restored shikumen lane houses.
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Shanghai Tower Observation Deck
China's tallest building at 632m, with a 118th-floor observatory overlooking all of Pudong.
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Xintiandi
A trendy district where historic shikumen lanes have been reborn as upscale cafes, restaurants, and boutiques.
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Shanghai Museum
People's Square's flagship museum, renowned for its world-class bronze and ceramics collections.
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Jing'an Temple
A 1,700-year-old temple standing incongruously amid a forest of skyscrapers.
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Longhua Temple
Shanghai's largest and oldest temple complex, marked by the iconic Longhua Pagoda beside it.
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Zhujiajiao Water Town
A 1,700-year-old canal town nicknamed 'the Venice of Shanghai.'
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Century Park
Pudong's largest city park, with sprawling lawns and a lake beloved by locals.
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Shanghai Natural History Museum
One of China's largest natural history museums, its striking architecture modeled on a nautilus shell.
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Qibao Ancient Town
A Song-dynasty-era canal town, the most accessible Jiangnan-style old town reachable directly by subway.
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M50 Art District
A contemporary art district along Suzhou Creek, converted from a former textile mill, packed with over 100 galleries.
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Shanghai Ocean Aquarium
A major aquarium beside the Oriental Pearl Tower, boasting one of the world's longest underwater tunnels.
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Shanghai Zoo
A large city zoo near Hongqiao, home to giant pandas and over 6,000 species of animals and plants.
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Terracotta Army
Emperor Qin Shi Huang's underground army — over 8,000 life-sized terracotta warriors and horses.
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Xi'an City Wall
China's best-preserved ancient city wall, circumnavigable by bicycle.
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Giant Wild Goose Pagoda
A seven-story brick pagoda built by the Tang monk Xuanzang to house scriptures brought from India.
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Muslim Quarter (Huimin Street)
A 1,000-year-old Hui Muslim district — Xi'an's ultimate street food paradise.
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Bell Tower & Drum Tower
Xi'an's iconic Bell Tower and Drum Tower built in 1384 — beautifully lit at night.
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Huaqing Palace
The imperial hot spring retreat where Tang's Yang Guifei famously bathed.
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Shaanxi History Museum
One of China's top four museums, telling 5,000 years of Chinese civilization through 1.7 million artifacts.
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Great Mosque of Xi'an
A 1,300-year-old mosque blending Chinese architecture with Islamic faith, tucked inside the Muslim Quarter.
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Forest of Stone Steles Museum (Beilin Museum)
China's treasure house of calligraphy and stone carving, built on a former Confucian temple, with over 3,000 steles standing like a forest.
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Small Wild Goose Pagoda
The Tang-dynasty brick pagoda 'sibling' to the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda, famed for a legend of self-healing cracks after earthquakes.
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Daming Palace National Heritage Park
The site of the Tang dynasty's political heart for 200 years — a ruins park recreating a palace once 4.5 times the size of the Forbidden City.
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Han Yangling Mausoleum
The mausoleum of Han Emperor Jing, with a unique underground museum letting visitors peer straight down at the excavation site through glass floors.
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Mount Huashan
One of China's Five Great Mountains, a Taoist sacred site famous for sheer cliffs and vertigo-inducing plank walkways.
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Xingqing Palace Park
A free city park built atop the former palace grounds where Tang Emperor Xuanzong once governed alongside Yang Guifei.
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Banpo Museum
The 6,000-year-old ruins of a Neolithic matriarchal village — China's very first on-site archaeological museum.
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Xi'an Museum
A free museum beside the Small Wild Goose Pagoda, condensing 2,000 years of Xi'an's urban history into its collection.
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Qianling Mausoleum
The joint mausoleum of Empress Wu Zetian and Emperor Gaozong — famed as the only Tang imperial tomb never successfully looted.
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