{"id":66115,"date":"2026-07-04T20:24:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T12:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=66115"},"modified":"2026-07-04T20:24:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T12:24:58","slug":"k-culture-meditation-esports-how-these-tours-reveal-seouls-hidden-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=66115","title":{"rendered":"K-culture, meditation, esports. How these tours reveal Seoul\u2019s hidden side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/07\/03\/21cbda82-60e6-40dc-bf4e-0af45170268a_08ca0920.jpg?itok=SKCUb3Pb&amp;v=1783075239\" \/><br \/>Patricia Hung, a Canadian in her forties, arrived in Seoul recently with six friends to celebrate her birthday and found a city of shopping and relentless energy \u2013 until a singing bowl meditation session on a Sunday showed her something else.<br \/>\n\u201cIt feels amazing and very tailored, like a reset,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019m very at peace right now, really relaxed.\u201d<br \/>\nThe session was part of this year\u2019s Seoul Quality Tour Packages, a city-designated programme running since 2013 that offers itineraries spanning&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/travel-leisure\/article\/3359153\/k-culture-meditation-esports-how-these-tours-reveal-seouls-hidden-side?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patricia Hung, a Canadian in her forties, arrived in Seoul recently with six friends to celebrate her birthday and found a city of shopping and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4840],"tags":[8081,3020,5523,18232,206,6520,2581,1557],"class_list":["post-66115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-globetrotting","tag-esports","tag-hidden","tag-kculture","tag-meditation","tag-reveal","tag-seouls","tag-side","tag-tours","wpcat-4840-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}