Seoul Palace Hours · Aug 17
Every Seoul palace is closed on Tuesday, August 17, 2027
This is not the usual weekday closure. It moved here.
- Monday Aug 16 The usual closing day — but it was Liberation Day (substitute), so the sites opened.
- Tuesday, August 17, 2027 The first following non-holiday. The closure landed here.
What is open on Aug 17
Nothing. All five sites close together on this date — an unusual alignment that happens when both the Monday and the Tuesday closures are displaced by the same holiday run. Plan a museum or a market day instead.
The rest of the year
Every moved closing day, the guard ceremony times and what to book ahead are on each site's guide: Changdeokgung, Changgyeonggung, Deoksugung. Or subscribe to the closing-day calendar so the next one cannot surprise you.