10 Pop-Ups to Check Out in South Korea (December 2025)
Can’t believe it’s already December 2025.🎄 We’ve put together the latest pop-up news— which one would you love to visit the most? December in Korea feels extra special. Let’s make it a warm and happy holiday season.☃️
1. K-POP Demon Hunters Pop-up 케이팝 데몬 헌터스 팝업
📍7 Yeonmujang 19-gil, Seongdong-gu, Seoul
📆 Dec 4 – Dec 28, 2025
Netflix is opening the official K-POP Demon Hunters Pop-up Store in Seongsu, marking the start of its global pop-up tour. Advance reservation is required. Along with the derpy tiger plush, a wide range of Huntrix and Saja boys merch will be revealed—so if you still can’t get over KDH, this pop-up is a must-visit!
2. POP MART Winter Village 팝마트 윈터 빌리지
📍Olive Young N Seongsu (13 Yeonmujang 7-gil, Seongdong-gu, Seoul)
📆 Dec 1 – Dec 31, 2025
The POP MART Winter Village Pop-up at Olive Young N Seongsu features festive Christmas editions of all seven major POP MART characters, along with on-site displays of the 2025 Olive Young Awards winners. Visitors can enjoy interactive activities, with special gifts like figures and keyrings available for completing missions.
3. Lotte Town Christmas Market 롯데타운 크리스마스 마켓
📍Lotte World Tower World Park (300 Olympic-ro, Songpa-gu, Seoul)
📆 Nov 20, 2025 – Jan 4, 2026
Starting with a 13-meter giant Christmas tree, the market offers a winter date course that feels just like a European Christmas village brought to life. As the largest edition yet, it features a Christmas carousel on the second floor, plenty of festive food options, and a total of 51 market booths for visitors to explore.
4. BROWN 15th ANNIVERSARY HUG BROWN HOUSE
📍LINE FRIENDS Square (43 Myeongdong-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul)
📆 Nov 27, 2025 – Jan 30, 2026
The holiday pop-up “HUG BROWN HOUSE” has opened to celebrate the 15th anniversary of LINE FRIENDS’ Brown. Visitors can explore a wide range of collaboration goods and special-edition items, along with tiered on-site benefits such as postcards, stickers, shopping bags, and metal badges based on purchase amount.
5. Happy Holidays in Cooking Library with Coca-Cola “Holiday Holidays”
📍46 Apgujeong-ro 46-gil, Gangnam-gu, Seoul
📆 ~ Jan 4, 2026
At the year-end pop-up “Holiday Holidays,” presented by Hyundai Card Cooking Library and Coca-Cola, visitors can enjoy a Santa-themed kitchen, a Christmas tree photo zone, and pop-up–exclusive Coca-Cola combo menus. Guests who join the event activities can receive Christmas-themed gifts such as ornaments, plush toys, and stickers.
6. ALLDAY PROJECT Pop-up 올데이프로젝트 팝업
📍EQL GROVE (11 Yeonmujang 15-gil, Seongdong-gu, Seoul)
📆 Dec 8 – Dec 21, 2025
The breakout group ALLDAY PROJECT has opened a pop-up store in Seongsu to celebrate the release of their first EP. True to its concept of “creative energy that breaks boundaries,” the space brings together music, art, and design for a uniquely immersive experience.
7. I LOVE Magikarp Festiva I LOVE 잉어킹 in 2025 서울빛초롱축제
📍 Cheonggyecheon area in Seoul
📆 Dec 12, 2025 – Jan 4, 2026
At the I LOVE Magikarp Festival held along Cheonggyecheon in Seoul, visitors can experience a stunning lantern display featuring 100 Magikarps crafted from traditional hanji and a giant Gyarados glowing along the stream. The festival also features fun year-end activities and limited goods, including a Golden Magikarp hunt and a Magikarp Bread pop-up shop.
8. Sanrio Sweet Holiday 산리오 스위트 홀리데이 팝업스토어
📍 28 Seongsui-ro 7-gil, Seongdong-gu, Seoul
📆 Nov 29 – Dec 28, 2025
A Sanrio Sweet Holiday pop-up store has opened, offering limited-edition goods, cute photo zones, and a three-minute Snow Time that takes place every hour. Visitors can also receive a Sanrio handkerchief through a special event for product purchases or by following on Instagram (limited to 400 people per day).
9. Stranger Things x Kakao Friends Chunsik 기묘한 이야기 x 카카오프렌즈 춘식이
📍Kakao Friends Hongdae (162 Yanghwa-ro, Mapo-gu, Seoul)
📆 Nov 27, 2025 ~
Chunsik from Kakao Friends has teamed up with Stranger Things to release a lineup of limited-edition goods inspired by the show’s eerie universe. The collection includes items such as an AV Club keyring, an Upside Down TV moving keyring, and themed T-shirts, pouches, and sweatwear.
10. Jujutsu Kaisen x Seoul Sky 주술회전 x 서울스카이전망대
📍Lotte World Tower Seoul Sky (300 Olympic-ro, Songpa-gu, Seoul)
📆 Dec 12, 2025 – Feb 28, 2026
At Lotte World Tower Seoul Sky, a unique collaboration pop-up with the anime Jujutsu Kaisen is now open. Visitors can experience striking photo zones and exhibits inspired by the “Hidden Inventory & Premature Death” arc and the “Shibuya Incident” storyline.
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