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Korean bath houses are one of those topics that come up in conversation and it seems while there is high interest, most foreigners that come to Korea just don’t know what to expect and only have visions of sitting around naked and uncomfortable with a lot of people. Sure, there’s nudity but that’s not the only thing that happens. I’ve visited a mokyoktang, or neighborhood bath house, a number of times but I’ll be honest, up until a couple weeks ago, I’d only ever gone when the mokyoktang was closed and I had the place to myself. Lucky me, right?
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The mokyoktang is probably the area that brings on the most feelings of discomfort at first. This is where you’ll get naked but once you get over that first bit of insecurity and look around, you quickly realize everyone is naked, we’ve all got the same parts and no one is really looking anyway. (To be honest, I have fairly large tattoos down the sides of my ribs so I get stared at a fair bit, but I quickly realized they weren’t staring at my body, they were staring at my tats. If you’ve got nothing to see, no one will even look.) This area has hot water baths, cold water baths, showers and may or may not also have people on staff there to exfoliate your every nook and cranny… if you want them to. Mokyoktangs are NOT unisex but are separated for male and female use.
Neighborhood bath houses are also frequented by the same people week in and week out so there is a lot of socializing inside as well with neighbors gossiping and sharing news of the day.
It’s important to realize that a place that is a jjimjilbang will have a mokyoktang as well as coed saunas and relaxation areas. A location that has a sign that reads mokyoktang on the exterior on the other hand, does NOT have a jjimjilbang area and is JUST the bathing house. If you’re uncomfortable with the idea of being nude, then look for the jjimjilbang in the area to gradually work your way up. Jjimjilbangs will be a bit larger and offer a bit more in the way of treatments, massages and so on usually as well. They may also have exercise rooms and more so you could spend the whole day working out and relaxing if you wanted to.
There are neighborhood jjimjilbangs and then there are some that are a bit more of an experience. There are a few places that you can visit and be assured there have been plenty of foreigners before you and so the staff is ready for you. If you want to go upscale, most hotels also have a Korean style spa area. Many of them, like the spa at Signiel Hotel , are only open for adults though, so do be aware if you have children. If you’re just looking for that special one-time experience to write home about, here are some places you should look into.
When you head in, you’ll pay a standard fee for using the area and likely be given a key on a rubber bracelet that will go to a locker inside where you can store all of your belongings. Don’t lose your key! It’s on a bracelet for a reason. Put it on that wrist and have fun. The reception will also hand you a towel and if it’s a jjimjilbang, they’ll hand you shorts and a tee to wear inside the hot spaces. If it’s a mokyoktang, they won’t hand you any clothing because you won’t wear any inside. Once you’re inside, if you want to get treatments, massages or other experiences done, staff will simply record down your locker number and you’ll pay on departure. Convenient, isn’t it?
Here’s where it’s important to know what you’ve gone into. If you’re entering a jjimjilbang which also features a shower room or bath house, you’ll want to do all of the hot saunas first. You do NOT need to shower before you head into the saunas. Change into the shorts and shirts provided and then find the door to head into the coed area with the saunas. If you’ve headed into a mokyoktang or won’t be visiting the various sauna spaces, then skip down to Step 4 to continue on.
Depending how many different rooms there are, you could go into various sauna spaces and relaxation rooms and spend hours there. If it’s a smaller local spot, you’ll probably just go into the one sauna room. You should try to spend at least 15 minutes inside but you could spend a lot more time. If you head to a much larger one like Busan’s Spa Land , the premier Korean spa experience in Korea, you could spend hours. Located in the largest Shinsegae Department Store in the world, this spa features 13 unique saunas and 18 different hot springs. It’s huge and fun and the perfect more chic experience if you’ll have just one. But local smaller ones are great if you want a quick experience and want to do it more like the locals.
After undressing and storing your belongings as well as the towels you received in your locker, you’ll go in. Don’t forget to take all of your shampoos, soaps and other products that you’d like to use. Often in neighborhoods, you’ll see people headed into a bathing house with a little caddy with all of their showering implements. You can also buy monthly memberships and if you do, you’d just leave your caddy of supplies in a locker inside ready whenever you’re there. Dressing rooms often have staff tidying things up and keeping track of who is getting scrubbed when and who is getting drinks and eggs from the fridge. Find the woman NOT getting undressed and ask her if you’d like to get a scrub later so she can get you a time slot.
Inside the shower room, look around to find an open shower area. There are NOT shower stalls but lots of showers lining the walls and everyone claims one by placing their caddy of goods in front of the shower heads. You might see shower heads and caddies but no one showering, that means the person is somewhere soaking. That’s fine to do. Find an empty showerhead, grab a stool and set up shop. Why do I say grab a stool? You may notice that these shower heads are lower than you might expect. Most women can be seen sitting while they shower. There will probably be stand up showers somewhere, but far more sit down options and just one or two stand up full body rinsing stations.
Before heading into the hot tubs, cold tubs or doing anything else, make sure you lather up and clean yourself. The tubs are for clean bodies only. After cleaning, if you have long hair, put it up in a bun or in a towel so it doesn’t clog up the baths as well. If you don’t do this step, you will most assuredly get some stares and possibly an older Korean woman coming over to tell you to clean yourself first. If someone does, they’re not being rude, but there is definitely etiquette in the bathhouse.
Now you’re ready to get into the tubs. There are often hot tubs of varying degrees as well as cooler tubs. There may be herbal pools and other things going on as well. If you’re looking to get exfoliated, it’s optimal to soak in the hot tubs for a bit before heading on to anything else. You may also find little kids in the tubs. My husband has said the mokyoktang is sort of like the poor mans swimming pool in a sense or was when he was little anyway. Children are free at many neighborhood bath houses and when he was little, he’d head in with friends to swim in the cooler baths. You will often see little children with their mothers or grandmothers swimming and splashing around enjoying the water while their elders are bathing. Don’t be surprised to see little boys in the women’s bath house either. There is a certain age when they’ll head to the men’s shower room but when they’re little, they often stay with their mothers. If you want to stay away from the little ones and relax, head into the hotter baths as the little ones tend to stay in the cooler ones.
This step is, of course, optional, but I highly recommend taking advantage of the scrubbing stations. The feeling of seeing so much dead skin taken off is oddly gratifying and you will be so so soft afterward. The ladies that are scrubbing are easy to spot as they’re the only ones walking around in underwear in the bath house. The station will look like a massage table that has been covered in linoleum or plastic. You lay on it naked and the scrubbing staff member will scrub just your back, your entire body and may include a facial and oils as well. According to my husband, this can vary depending on who is working and what they usually do. It can cost anywhere between $20 and $45.
My recent experience was $25 and included a cucumber facial, oils and a peach scrub at the very end as well. It was FANTASTIC!
After getting scrubbed, rinse off and feel free to soak for a bit longer, head into the sauna rooms and take advantage of the other relaxation areas that may or may not include saunas of varying degrees, dry saunas, ice rooms, salt rooms and more. At my in-laws mokyoktang, there are two larger pools of water, one cool and one hot and two medium size even hotter pools and then smaller cooler pools too. There is a wet sauna room and then there is a dry sauna room. This is a pretty basic but mokyoktang set-up and is not really for tourists but for the locals in the area though tourists and foreigners are of course always welcome.
If you’re not quite ready for a real Korean style sauna experience, but would rather have a more upscale K-beauty experience or massage, there are certainly plenty of those to be had as well. Here area few amazing options to check out when you need to relax in Seoul:
구운계란 – SAUNA EGGS: Sauna eggs are hard boiled eggs that have been cooked slowly for a long period of time with steam. The outside shells turn brown and the eggs are a bit more rubbery than what you probably cook at home.
식초 – SIKCHO VINEGAR DRINKS: These drinks are supposed to be good for digestion and the intestinal tract system. They are diluted so it’s not like you’re just drinking vinegar and will come in fruity flavors like persimmon, pomegranate and blackberry.
식혀 – SIKHYE SWEET RICE DRINK: Also helping with digestion, this drink is made by pouring malt water over cooked rice and then boiled. It’s a bit sweet and is often served after meals at restaurants as well.
세신 (Seshin) – FULLY BODY SCRUB: If you want that full body scrub, just ask the “room manager” as I mentioned before who can let you know when an appropriate time would be available for you.
Below you’ll find some rooms that you may or may not see at a jjimjilbang :
For some humorous tales about jjimjilbang experiences, check out Around The World in KT Days and her awesome post The Naked Truth Tales From the Jjimjilbang .
I’m so excited to go to one or two spas on my trip but am a little concerned about my tattoos.. I only have a few and I’m a 23y/o white woman so I doubt I fall in to the ‘gangster’ category 😅 They are visible tho, even with a tshirt, especially a cartoon dinosaur on the outside of my wrist and a spiderweb on my elbow. How big of an issue do you think this will be? Should I just walk up in there and have them bring it up if it’s a problem or is it better to ask at the front desk/email beforehand? I stumbled upon a little foot note on the Hurchimchung website that people with tattoos or skin disease “do not enter for bathing according to guidelines”, which also makes me think maybe it would be a problem that I have acne? Greatful for a response 🙏 As a neurodivergent person I LOVE a good preparatory guide to places lol, I’ll definitely return to yours either way!
Hi Astrid, I have my wrist, both ribcages, and other tattoos and I’ve never been turned away. Even at a big sauna that had a big sign with rules and one stated that one shouldn’t have tattoos was fine with mine. I asked and they said it was an old rule and they’re fine with it now. They just don’t want obviously gang related tattooed people. I think you’d be okay on that point and skin disease wouldn’t include acne. Definitely go and enjoy. ^^
Thanks for your helpful guides! I’m about to go for my first scrub here in Korea and I’m wondering if I should be tipping, and if so how much and at what point. I know tipping isn’t generally practiced in Korea, but the scrub and massage places I’ve visited in the States and other parts of Asia definitely expected and wanted a tip. Thanks for your advice!
I’ve never tipped when I’ve gotten scrubs and it wasn’t expected. If you go to a really touristy spa they might sort of expect it if they’re used to other tourists doing it I guess, but generally, you don’t in my experience.
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