Blue Square Seoul: Getting There, Getting In, Getting Home

Last verified August 28, 2026

This page is for someone who already holds a ticket to a show at Blue Square in Seoul: getting there, getting in, and getting home, in that order. Buying the ticket belongs to whichever seller your show uses, so it is not covered here. The venue publishes all of this in Korean, and its site carries no English edition, so the English wording below is ours.

Which of the two halls your ticket is for

Blue Square is a performing-arts complex in Hannam-dong, in Yongsan-gu. The street address is 서울특별시 용산구 이태원로 294, and the desk answers on 1544-1591 between 09:00 and 18:00.

Your ticket names one of two halls under the same roof. The musical hall is 우리은행홀, given in English on NOL World’s ticket pages as Woori Bank Hall. The concert hall is 우리WON뱅킹홀, listed for concerts, showcases, fan meetings, conferences and corporate events. NOL World gives that one as Woori WON Banking Hall. Note the WON in the middle: that syllable is what separates the two halls in English.

English-language pages may print an older name. VisitKorea’s English entry, read on 2026-08-28, still calls the two halls Shinhan Card Hall and Mastercard Hall — the musical hall and the concert hall in that order. How the seat maps differ is the subject of the next article in this series.

One more naming point. If your booking confirmation says NOL theater, that is the company that runs Blue Square, not a different venue.

Your seating level is not the building floor

The 층 on your ticket counts seating levels, not building floors, and no English page read here explains it. The floor guide lists each hall by building floor, and the two halls do not line up the same way.

In the musical hall, the box office is on 1F, together with the opera-glasses booth. Seating level 3 is on that same 1F, so a level 3 ticket does not go down at all. Seating level 2 is on LF, the floor below. Seating level 1 is on B1F, and the coat check is down there with it. So a ticket reading 객석 1층 sends you to the lowest of that hall’s three seating floors, not to the ground floor.

The concert hall drops further, and there every seating level is below the box office. Its box office is on LF. Seating level 2 is on B1F with a coat check, and seating level 1 is on B3F with a second coat check. Car parking occupies B2F, between them.

Two more things fall out of that page. In the floor guide the cafés and restaurants sit on the musical hall’s floors — 1F, 2F and 3F — and none appear on the concert hall’s. An audience arriving for a concert walks across to reach them. And the two coat checks in the concert hall are on different floors, which matters if you are collecting a bag against the clock after the curtain.

Getting to Hangangjin Station and into the building

Hangangjin Station is on Line 6, and three of the venue’s pages send you there: the directions page, the parking guide and the FAQ.

You do not have to come up to street level. The directions page says to use the 지하철역 연결통로, the underground connecting passage, between Exit 2 and Exit 3. The FAQ repeats it in the same terms. The parking guide leans on the same fact when it asks people to leave the car at home.

Buses stop at the Hangangjin Station exits and at 서울시 중부 기술교육원 · 블루스퀘어, which carries the venue’s own name; the directions page lists the route numbers for each. Route N13 appears at that second stop. If you are crossing from north of the river through the Namsan No.1 Tunnel, the page tells you to get off at 순천향대학병원 and walk about ten minutes toward Hangangjin.

Getting in: what you can carry, and where the rest goes

The FAQ is blunt about the seating area: capped bottled water is the only thing you may carry in and consume there. Food that makes noise or carries a smell is named as barred, and so are bouquets, which matters at a musical where people bring flowers for a curtain call. The same answer points you at the lockers before the show rather than at the door staff.

The coat check opens when the lobby opens and closes 20 minutes after the show ends. Storage is free for two hours for that day’s audience. After that it is charged by the hour and by size: 1,000원 small, 2,000원 medium, 3,000원 large, paid by credit card. The FAQ adds a caveat the services page leaves out: locker numbers are limited, so on a full night you may not get one.

Timing is stricter than at an arena. The FAQ asks you to be in your own seat 10 minutes before the start, and states that entry is restricted once the show has begun. Latecomers may be seated elsewhere or held out entirely, depending on the show and the house. For standing shows in the concert hall it notes that entry order is sometimes by booking number and sometimes first-come. Recording and photography during the performance are barred unless agreed in advance, with curtain-call photography decided per production. Age limits are set per production too, and the FAQ is firm that an accompanying adult does not override them.

Two rentals are worth knowing before you arrive, and each is tied to the musical hall. Opera glasses cost 5,000원. You can reserve them through the NOL Ticket site up to three hours before the show, and the FAQ says on-site rental runs as well, with the remaining stock shown at the booth from two hours before the start. Collection is between one hour and ten minutes before curtain, and you hand over your ID to hold. A phone-battery rental service sits at the entrance on the same floor at 1,100원 an hour.

The FAQ answers wheelchair seats with a phone number rather than a booking link: 1544-1591, open 09:00 to 18:00 year-round. It puts 18 spaces at the rear of seating level 1 in the musical hall and 10 at the rear of seating level 2 in the concert hall.

If you drive

The parking guide opens by saying the car park is habitually full. It follows that with a line that parking and traffic trouble is not grounds for cancelling or changing a booking.

The two figures above each come from the venue. The parking guide gives ticket holders four hours for 6,000원 on weekdays and 7,500원 at weekends and on public holidays. The FAQ gives four hours for 5,000원 and draws no distinction by day; VisitKorea’s English entry prints the same 5,000원, adding 1,000원 for each further 10 minutes. Neither page carries a revision date, so there is no way from the pages themselves to say which is current. Budget for the higher one and be pleased if the kiosk asks for less.

Read the rest off the parking guide, because it is the page that carries it. General rates there are 1,000원 per 10 minutes on weekdays and 1,500원 at weekends and holidays, with free exit inside 20 minutes. The car park runs 07:00 to 24:00, and you cannot drive out between 24:00 and 07:00, which is the line to read twice if your show ends late. Drivers are asked to leave within 30 minutes of the end. The welfare discount is 50% off the general rate, and the page limits it to vehicles carrying or driven by a welfare-card or national-merit-card holder. The same page lists an alternative: 한강진역 공영주차장, the public car park at Hangangjin Station, at 이태원로 272, open 24 hours, at 400원 per 5 minutes.

What the two pages share is the QR-code kiosk, claimable from 20 minutes after you drive in. The FAQ adds a second route: you can settle on your phone. The FAQ places those kiosks on B1 and 1F of the musical hall and opposite the lifts on parking levels B2 and B3. If your ticket has no parking QR code, the guide sends you to the musical hall’s box office or the coat check to collect one.

Getting home after the curtain

These times come from Seoul Metro’s own station page for Hangangjin, read on screen on 2026-08-28. The timetable tab there is headed 출발 기준 (최종게시: 2024.08.01), departures as posted on that date.

The station posts three day types — weekday, Saturday and public holiday — and the holiday column repeats the Saturday numbers exactly. If your show falls on a Korean public holiday, the trains end on the Saturday timetable, not the weekday one.

Read your own direction rather than a single figure. Northbound, the last train toward Eungam is posted at 00:11:00 on weekdays and 23:35:00 on Saturdays and holidays; toward Gongdeok it is 00:46:00 against 23:57:00. Southbound, Bonghwasan is 00:32:00 against 23:38:50, and Sinnae is 00:12:00 against 23:18:50. Taken across those four directions — the ones posted for each day type — the Saturday and holiday last train leaves between 36 and 54 minutes earlier than its weekday counterpart, the span rounded outward. The narrowest pair is Eungam at 36 minutes; the widest are Bonghwasan and Sinnae, each at 53 minutes and 10 seconds.

Three destinations appear on one day type and not the other, so they have no pair. Saejeol is posted on weekdays only, at 00:27:00. Daeheung and Anam appear only on the Saturday and holiday table, at 23:46:00 and 23:49:50. A weekday timetable read in advance will not tell you what runs on a Saturday night, and the reverse holds too.

If the trains have gone, route N13 — a night service — is on the venue’s own bus list, at the stop named after the venue. Taxis run in Itaewon. If you arrived without a transport card and are working out how to pay for any of this, what the Climate Card covers and who it suits is a separate article on this site.