# Best Parks in Seoul

Seoul's largest green spaces, from a colonial-era mountain park to Han River waterfronts reclaimed from a landfill and a former water plant. · community starter list

8 parks in Seoul, including Namsan Park (Jung-gu, Seoul). No votes cast yet — entries are ordered as added, and the community's votes will decide the order from here — last updated Aug 19, 2026.

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**Updated:** 2026-08-19 18:20:47

1. **[Namsan Park](/e/960.md)** (park) — A 270-meter peak formally designated Namsan Park in 1940 under Japanese colonial rule, later reforested after 1945 into one of Seoul's largest urban parks. — score 0
2. **[Seoul Forest](/e/961.md)** (park) — A roughly 495,000-square-meter park opened in June 2005 in Seongdong-gu, built on a former water treatment site to give the city an ecological park by the Han River. — score 0
3. **[Olympic Park](/e/962.md)** (park) — A 1.45-million-square-meter Songpa-gu park built for the 1988 Summer Olympics on the site of the Baekje-era Mongchon Toseong earthworks. — score 0
4. **[Banpo Han River Park](/e/963.md)** (park) — A Seocho-gu riverside park centered on Banpo Bridge, whose 1,140-meter Moonlight Rainbow Fountain was Guinness-listed in 2008 as the world's longest bridge fountain. — score 0
5. **[World Cup Park](/e/964.md)** (park) — A five-park, 2.7-million-square-meter Mapo-gu complex opened May 2002 on the reclaimed Nanjido landfill, which operated from 1978 to 1993. — score 0
6. **[Bukhansan National Park](/e/965.md)** (park) — Designated Korea's 15th national park on April 2, 1983, its granite peaks rise above 800 meters and straddle several northern Seoul districts and Gyeonggi Province. — score 0
7. **[Seonyudo Park](/e/966.md)** (park) — A Han River island park in Yeongdeungpo-gu that opened April 2002, reusing the concrete tanks of a water treatment plant that ran there from 1978 to 2000. — score 0
8. **[Yeouido Park](/e/967.md)** (park) — A Yeongdeungpo-gu park converted from a paved plaza once used for cycling and roller-skating, redeveloped into greenery in the late 1990s. — score 0

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