Take a Lucky Flight to N Seoul Tower to Wish for Lasting Love / 🇰🇷 South Korea

At the top of Namsan, the Love Tree has a canopy made of padlocks. Each lock is a small way of saying that a relationship matters enough to mark with a gesture. The wish here is for love that lasts: the kind of bond you want to keep tending after the excitement of a new beginning has settled.

You can bring a wish for someone you already share your life with, or take a moment to think about the kind of relationship you hope to build. The plaza gives that thought a setting: a spot above the city where people have come to leave a little sign of affection.

Start with the view from Namsan and find the tower plaza. Look for the Love Tree, a structure set aside for locks. Give yourself a moment to take in the scale of the city before turning your attention to the small things that people have left here.

At the plaza, visitors attach their love lock to the tree. On the Lucky Flight, picture holding a small lock in your palm, then closing it on one of the branches. As you imagine that click, put your hope into one sentence. A wish to make more time for each other is as welcome as a wish to meet someone new.

Let your gaze return to the city for one last moment. Keep that sentence in mind and add the arrival stamp to your passport on this device. If you visit in person, use the Love Tree in the plaza; the tower’s own visitor guide points you to it.

N Seoul Tower began as a communications tower. It took on its current name in 2006 and became familiar to viewers who saw it in Korean dramas. From a distance, it is a line on the city skyline; at the plaza, the rows of locks invite you to look close.

The Korea Tourism Organization dates the formal promotion of the love-lock custom at the tower to 2007. The Love Tree gives the locks a home of their own. What makes the visit memorable is the change of scale: the city stretches away below you, while a single lock in your hand is small enough to hold the thought of one person.