The day of the show, and what you get to decide

Morning

How you turn up

• You just go. Most people do, and nobody at the venue is looking.
• Salons in Hongdae, Seongsu and Gangnam will style your hair and make-up the way the people on stage are styled. The days with concerts fill first, and almost all of them take bookings only. Roughly US$30–80.

Midday

Where the suitcase goes

• A subway station locker. Large cases may not fit, the number of lockers varies by station, and you have to come back for it before the show.
• Services carry it from the airport to a hotel, or from one hotel to the next, and it arrives the same day. Delivery US$17–31; airport storage about US$7.
• Once the case is gone there are hours before check-in. A craft workshop fills one or two of them and you leave holding what you made.

Night

How you get back

• The last train. Except that at some venues it does not go as far as Seoul — check before you buy the ticket.
• Take a room you can walk back to. These are the venues that have one, and the distances were measured from the coordinates.

These venues have nothing within walking distance — Incheon Main Stadium · Gocheok Sky Dome · Seoul Arena · Jamsil Indoor Gymnasium. For those, decide how you are getting back before you go.

Afterwards

What you keep

• Whatever your phone caught. The venue is dark and far from the stage, so most of it is blurred.
• A studio in Hongdae, Seongsu or Bukchon will take Korean-style portraits. Sometimes it is the only sharp photograph left of the whole trip. Roughly US$16–38.

The next morning

When you cannot move

• A long hot shower at the hotel and a late start. Costs nothing, and takes the afternoon with it.
• A scrub at a bathhouse. Fifty to sixty thousand won, an hour or so, and not available outside Korea.