A Vibrant Urban Fountain

Each Four Seasons hotel brings a different visual surprise and the same comfort. At the beginning of the New Year, we visited the Four Seasons Hotel in the Gwanghwamun Plaza area of Seoul. In this city that is the leader of the fashion trend and entertainment, the Four Seasons Hotel is inspired by its dynamic urban texture, culture and fashion trends to become the new landmark of Seoul, making it the frst choice for people who like highend hotel brands.

Modern Rooms with Panoramic Views of the City

Architects & Planners, Korea‘s number one architectural planning company. The exterior is based on the interpretation of Korean traditional culture, and Four Seasons Hotel Seoul is completed by LTW Design works and Heerim employs the lightflooded space structure to create a modern atmosphere,presenting an interior of richer insight.

The hotel has a total of 317 rooms and suites ranging in size from 44 to 52 square meters, which is said to be the largest and most luxurious of the major hotels in Seoul. The interior is modern and cool, drawing inspiration from Seoul‘s history and future, combining classic Korean design themes with simple modern aesthetics.

The lighting of the guest room makes full use of the outdoor natural light.The huge floortoceiling windows are not arranged in the traditional sense of a flat plane, but are arranged in a diagonally stairlike distribution. The proper angle formed by this design not only allows the light to penetrate into every corner of the room, but also allows one to enjoy the panoramic view of the nearby Gyeongbokgung Palace and the facade of the landmark N Seoul Tower from some suites.

Popular Dining Experience

Gourmet in the Four Seasons Hotel is always an integral part of luxury. The Four Seasons Hotel Seoul is home to seven ingenious restaurants and bars that are designed by the world‘s top creative talents or companies. Among them, the Chinese restaurant ”Yu Yuan” was awarded a star in the 2017 Michelin Guide Seoul Edition, and was designed by the worldrenowned designer Andre Fu together with the Japanese restaurant ”Kioku”.Here you can not only taste Cantonese dishes, but also local specialties such as the signature dishes of Yu Yuan, Beijing Roast Duck. The name of the restaurant is taken from Shanghai‘s famous rock garden ”Yu Yuan”, which reproduces the richness and charm of the Shanghai heyday during the 1920s.

We focused this time on the ”The Market Place” buffet restaurant, which offers a wide range of panAsian and

international cuisines on the live production table. The vaulted ceilings and attractive food aromas of the restaurant make you feel like you are in a European market hall; but the most special thing here is that the main dining area is all located above the crisscrossed tempered glass, with the wreckage of a broken house underneath it all. According to the public relations personnel who received us, the hotel discovered this old house ruins of ancient Korean civilians at the construction site, and finally decided to retain it as a selling point of the restaurant; therefore, when I walked through the traces of history, bringing back freshly baked barbecue and seafood with salty seawater, there was a sense of going back in time. At dinner, the restaurant has reached its climax, for hundreds of seats were fully booked. This is rare in the restaurants of the same level, which gives us more appreciation and affection for the Four Seasons.

Secretive Charles H. Bar

In addition to a wide variety of delicacies, the ”Charles H.” of the Four Seasons Hotel in Seoul is also wellknown. It Ranking 64th in the ”Best Bars in the World in 2018” list, it is Korea‘s most popular bar for the internet celebrities, some guests even stay in the hotel just so they can go to the bar. One of the biggest selling points is its privacy, which is hidden in a particularly inconspicuous location in the hotel. There are no LOGOs and signs at the entrance. If the staff did not lead us, we will never find it.

Upon entering, we found it to be a very unique space. At the time we visited, the bar was not open yet, but we can picture the dynamic party scenes when it was full of guests drinking cocktails until the early hours of the morning. The ”Charles H.” bar is like a tribute to the New York underground bar during the American Prohibition Era. The interior‘s rich design elements are inspired by Korean traditional gold work patterns, bringing the creation concept of the bar to a new level. The publicist pointed to the travel notes on the table at the entrance and told us that the name of the bar was taken from the travels of legendary Charles H. Baker and his authoritative work on cocktails from around the world.

The Four Seasons Hotel not only incorporates Korea‘s innovative and modern trend styles, but also combines the unique traditional cultural elements of the region. Take the Four Seasons Hotel in Seoul as the first stop in Korea, and the trip will definitely be worthwhile.