This is a fun and informative experience to understand the key features of Korean culture. The museum tells the collective memory of Koreans from birth to death as well as the major festivals. There is also a recreation of 1980s Seoul to show how the Korean capital evolved to a modern metropolis. Quite an interesting place for tourists to explore more about the country.

It’s an interesting museum with cool designs and exhibits. We went during a limited time exhibit but unfortunately there was no English text to talk about it so we had to use our phones for each element. I thoroughly enjoyed the rest of the museum though, definitely worth a visit

There is no entrance fee. This National Folk Museum has a small collection of artifacts of historical and cultural significance to the Korean people. The three main sections are very easy to navigate and there is also a special collections section. Given the small collection, it's not too overwhelming and I took about two hours to browse through slowly. If you're visiting Gyeongbokgung, you will see a tall pagoda on the side; this is the National Folk Museum. My recommendation is to finish touring the palace grounds before heading to this museum.

The National Folk Museum of Korea sits behind, and can be accessed on the same admission ticket as, the Gyeongbokgung Palace complex. As such it's worth seeing, if you have some energy left. Although the building has been there since 1993, the main exhibition areas were revamped in 2023. I particularly liked the first two permanent exhibitions, covering the beginning of K-culture and Korea in the four main seasons. Both made imaginative use of multimedia, while keeping sufficiently many original objects on display. The third permanent gallery, on Korean Life Passages, was slightly less captivating, although still quite interesting. There are also temporary exhibitions (I don't find the "Fathers" one in May 2024 very exciting, and a small cafe at which you can buy a coffee and cookie! To the right of the main building there is a preserved 1960s/70s “street of memories” located just outside the main building: this was interesting but actually not that Korean.