Ice skating
Home of two-time Olympic medalist and figure-skating icon, Yuna Kim, South Korea boasts a number of indoor and outdoor ice skating rinks. Head to the Grand Hyatt Hotel Seoul, Yeouido Park, or Seoul Plaza to brush up on your skills or enjoy a leisurely romantic date.
Ice fishing
Hwacheon is known to be the first area that freezes when winter settles in, so it's no surprise that it hosts one of the nation's largest winter festivals. In addition to multiple snow-related activities, the Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival in Gangwon Province offers participants the opportunity to experience ice fishing and bare-handed fishing, a very cool experience that’s not to be missed.
Warm up the body at a public bathhouse
A jjimjibang are public bathhouse where you can scrub your body clean of all of the dead skin cell and then soak in hot and cold tubs. It’s a very common activity for Koreans, no matter what the time of year, and it’s a fun way to pass time on a cold winter day.
Go sledding
Popular amusement park Everland stays seasonally relevant with its winter offerings, namely its huge sledding hill, the Snow Buster. Everland provides the slope, the snow, and the sleds. There are additional conveniences for lazy people, such as heated lounges selling refreshments and the "tube lift," which minimizes trudge time.
Enjoy hot Korean street snacks
The wonderful thing about walking around Seoul in the winter is being able to stop anywhere and hew on all the wide array of delicious hot street snacks. From tteokbokki (spicy rice cakes), odeng (Fish cake sticks dipped in soup), gamja hotdogs (French fry covered hot dogs) and even mattang (candied sweet potato) can make your stomach warmer.