Changdeokgung Yakdabang Booking Guide: 2025 Ticket Dates, Price, and Visit Details

Changdeokgung Yakdabang booking for the 2025 second-half program was handled through a lottery-style reservation process before the event period. The program ran from October 1 to 23, 2025, at the Yakbang space inside Changdeokgung Palace, so the listed booking and visit dates are now historical information rather than an active reservation schedule.¹

The event was organized by the Korea Heritage Service Royal Palaces and Tombs Center and the Korea Heritage Agency as a palace-use cultural program centered on traditional royal refreshments and herbal tea.¹ For readers checking how Changdeokgung Yakdabang reservations worked, the key point is that general applicants first entered a Ticketlink lottery, and selected applicants later completed their booking by choosing a date and session.²

Changdeokgung Yakdabang Booking Timeline

For the 2025 second-half Changdeokgung Yakdabang, the application window opened through Ticketlink on September 10, 2025, and ran until September 16, 2025. The Royal Palaces and Tombs Center event notice gave a more exact application period: from 2:00 p.m. on September 10 to 11:59 p.m. on September 16.³

Winners were able to make reservations from September 19, 2025, with a limit of up to two tickets per person.¹ Reports also noted that winners were announced through the Korea Heritage Agency website, after which they selected their preferred date and session through Ticketlink.²

Separate phone reservations were available for people aged 65 or older, people with disabilities, and persons of national merit. That phone booking route opened from 2:00 p.m. on September 24, 2025.³

The table matters because this program was not a simple first-come, first-served ticket sale in the available sources. It used a staged process: application, winner announcement, and then reservation completion. Anyone reviewing past booking information should distinguish the application period from the later reservation period.

Schedule, Capacity, and What the Program Included

The second-half 2025 program was held from October 1 to 23 at Changdeokgung Palace’s Yakbang. It did not operate on Mondays, and each day had three sessions. Each session accepted 30 participants and lasted about 70 minutes.²

The fee was 15,000 won per person.² This was the same per-person fee reported for the 2025 first-half program, which ran from June 4 to 26 and also used a Ticketlink lottery application system.⁴

The program was built around the palace Yakbang, a space associated with the Joseon royal medical office. Reports described the second-half event as a traditional refreshment and herbal tea experience held in that setting.²

Participants in the second-half program could choose between a hobakran set and a baeran set. They could also choose one tea from gungoncha, jangsaengcha, cheongoncha, and omijacha.⁵ Yonhap also described the experience as one where participants selected a hobakran or baeran set while enjoying traditional refreshments and herbal tea.⁶

The background of the program is also useful for understanding why demand may have been handled by lottery. Food Today reported that Changdeokgung Yakdabang began in 2024 as an invitation event for socially considerate groups, and that the 2025 first-half program was the first time it operated for general visitors.⁵

Booking Steps Readers Should Understand

For the 2025 second-half event, the available sources support the following practical booking flow.

First, general applicants entered the lottery through Ticketlink during the September 10-16 application period. The official event notice specified the window as beginning at 2:00 p.m. on September 10 and ending at 11:59 p.m. on September 16.³

Second, successful applicants checked the winner announcement through the Korea Heritage Agency website. After that, winners completed the booking process on Ticketlink by selecting the date and session they wanted.²

Third, eligible visitors using phone reservation followed a separate route. The phone reservation category was for people aged 65 or older, people with disabilities, and persons of national merit, and it opened at 2:00 p.m. on September 24.³

Because the event period ended on October 23, 2025, these instructions should be read as a guide to how the 2025 booking process worked. The source material does not provide a booking schedule for a later edition.

A Korea Heritage Service official said the agency would continue developing palace-use programs that offer Korean citizens and foreign visitors opportunities to experience traditional culture and the appeal of national heritage.²

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