Spotlight on Seoul

The new Four Seasons Hotel Seoul captures the energetic, artistic and foodie sides of the city. Melissa Twigg travels to the Korean capital to spend the weekend living in style

KNOCK ON an unmarked door in the basement of the Four Seasons Hotel Seoul and get an insight into this glamorous new hotel—and the inspiring, creative and sometimes outrageous city it resides in. On the other side of the unremarkable door lies a velvet-carpeted corridor that leads to a glitzy, candle-lit, 1920s-themed speakeasy populated with the kind of glamorous crowd you’d expect to see in the front row of Paris Fashion Week. There’s live music and dangerously strong cocktails, and it’s open all night. The only worry is that it could ruin your sightseeing opportunities—because why would you leave the hotel when the sexiest bar in town is just downstairs? Seoul is a frenetic, heaving jumble of a city that houses 25 million people, and on a busy weekend it…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, January 2016

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