Glad Live, a Member of Design Hotels

Set in Seoul’s fashion-conscious, upmarket Gangnam district—home to local and global luxury brands and the city’s vast Olympic Park—Glad Live is a beacon of vibrancy that serves as an urban playground for cosmopolitan revelers, both homegrown and international. Offering a “curated lifestyle” that is in full harmony with Seoul’s chic nightlife experiences, the 210 rooms and suites are design-conscious hubs for the stylish at heart. Here, amid sleek monotones that are informed by the stark, sweeping cityscape below, one finds exhibitions of contemporary art and design on the hotel’s 20th floor, accompanied by live music. But whether guests are dancing all night or up early to take on the city, the minute they step into the Glad Live’s lobby they enter a striking, ink-colored contemporary design world, which, like the hotel itself, is a private retreat amid a pulsing city.

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