SeoulDal Night Flight Guide: Evening Views, Hours, Boarding, and What to Check Before You Go

SeoulDal Night Flight is a practical way to see Seoul’s evening skyline from a tethered gas balloon in Yeouido Park. The ride is designed as a vertical flight experience, rising up to 130 meters above the Yeouido Park lawn area for views of the Han River and the city at night.¹

The key point for visitors is that SeoulDal is weather-sensitive. The Seoul Tourism Organization’s SeoulDal information page posts daily flight information and notes that the schedule is updated in real time depending on weather changes.² For anyone planning an evening visit, checking the same-day operating notice before traveling to Yeouido is the most important step.

SeoulDal Night Flight Basics

SeoulDal is described by Seoul’s official night tourism information service as a tethered gas balloon experience facility. It flies vertically above Yeouido Park and offers views of Seoul’s overall cityscape and night scenery from up to 130 meters in the air.¹ Earlier reporting before the formal opening also described a 360-degree night view that can include major landmarks such as the National Assembly building, the Han River, and Namsan Tower from that height.³

The standard operating hours are listed as 12:00 to 22:00, with the last flight at 21:30. Seoul’s official guide also states that, from April 2026, SeoulDal is operated year-round without regular closing days.¹ That is a change from the original launch schedule, when the Seoul Tourism Organization announced formal operations from Tuesday to Sunday, excluding Mondays, from noon to 22:00.⁴

A SeoulDal ride takes about 15 minutes from boarding to getting off, and each flight can carry up to 20 passengers.¹ Because the experience is short and capacity is limited, visitors who want an evening flight should treat the final 21:30 flight as a firm practical cutoff rather than a flexible arrival target.

How to Plan an Evening Visit

For a SeoulDal Night Flight, start with the same-day flight information. On June 24, 2026, the official SeoulDal information page posted daily flight information for Wednesday and listed the weekly first flight as 12:30 and the final flight as 21:30. The same page also showed a Capital Defense Command no-fly order for 14:05 to 14:55 on that date.² This example matters because it shows that the posted schedule can include operational interruptions beyond normal opening hours.

Visitors without online reservations are instructed to register for on-site boarding waitlist access.² The source material does not provide a full online booking procedure, refund policy, or reservation release schedule, so the reliable guidance is limited to checking the official daily notice and using on-site waiting registration when visiting without an online reservation.

The launch price information reported by KBS listed adult tickets at 25,000 won and children and youth tickets at 20,000 won.³ The same source described operations from noon to 22:00, excluding the regular Monday inspection day at that time, before the later official guide began listing year-round daily operation from April 2026.³¹ If price or discount details are important for a specific visit, confirm them through the current official channel before departure, because the provided source material only includes the reported launch-era prices.

For context, SeoulDal began formal operations on August 23, 2024, after about two months of trial operation involving around 2,400 advance experience participants.⁴ The Seoul Tourism Organization presented it as a night tourism landmark where visitors can view the Han River and downtown night scenery from 130 meters above the Yeouido Park lawn area.⁴

Safety, Demand, and Visitor Context

SeoulDal’s first year provides useful context for visitors deciding whether the experience is established enough to plan around. Yonhap reported that, after opening on August 23, 2024, SeoulDal recorded 50,000 cumulative passengers and more than 5,400 accident-free safe flights during its first year, based on a Seoul Metropolitan Government announcement. It operated on 235 days, with an average of 228 riders per day, and 17,000 foreign visitors accounted for 31.3% of total users.⁵

The same report said Seoul expanded peak-season weekend morning operations and added a Dadungi Happiness Card discount from April 2025.⁵ Seoul Tourism Organization CEO Kil Ki-yon said the organization would do its best to provide “a safer and more enjoyable experience” based on one year of operational experience.⁵

Demand figures also show that actual use has been lower than early projections. The Fact reported on January 21, 2026, that SeoulDal recorded 54,972 passengers from January to December 2025, about 33% of the originally estimated 162,000-plus riders in a Seoul Metropolitan Council budget review document. The same report stated that foreign passengers made up 39.8% of 2025 riders, while monthly average ridership and revenue decreased from the previous year.⁶

For individual visitors, the practical takeaway is not that the ride is unavailable, but that planning should be precise. Evening flights depend on weather, operational notices, available capacity, and any flight restriction periods posted for that day.

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