Seoulland

A six-storey playground inside a 1988 park

Kraken Island rises to roughly six-storey apartment scale, with a 9-metre slide, large climbing nets, suspension bridges and elevated play areas above seasonal water features. The slides and big nets operate through the year, giving Seoulland a child-led play structure on the scale of a major ride

Opened in 2024, the structure is built around oversized sea imagery: a giant whale slide, a yellow submarine and slides shaped like the kraken’s tentacles. In warm-weather operation, the lower level adds water cannons, floor fountains, sprays and other water-play equipment. When that seasonal system closes, the dry slides and large nets remain in use

Children climb, cross, balance and choose their own route through the structure. That open-ended movement is one of the clearest physical signs of how Seoulland has continued to update a park whose basic identity dates to the late 1980s

A 1988 park still works through themed zones

Seoulland opened in May 1988, just before the Seoul Olympics, as Korea’s first theme park. The current attraction list is organized around World Plaza, Adventure Land, Character Town, Tomorrow Land and Samchulli Land. The five-zone layout separates different families of rides and characters across the park

The thrill-ride layer is clear in the current roster. King Viking admits riders from 110 cm, Black Hole 2000 from 120 cm, X Flyer from 120 cm, and Shot Drop is listed for riders between 140 and 195 cm. They share the same park with gentler character and family attractions

After dark, the same grounds take on another layer through Luna Park, the recurring night-light program that Seoulland identifies as part of its core offer. The rides, open play and evening performance program now overlap inside a park that opened almost four decades ago

Seoulland also appears in Squid Game Season 2. The production used the Toy Ride area for the amusement-park scenes where Kang No-eul (Park Gyu-young) works in a character costume, before the series reveals her as a pink guard. Visitors familiar with the show can connect the real park to No-eul’s pre-game workplace

Ride height reshapes the family day

The most useful family distinction is written into the attraction limits. Several children’s rides have upper as well as lower height limits: Vroomiz Hill is for children between 90 and 135 cm, Cloud Bread between 90 and 120 cm, and Mini Viking between 80 and 130 cm. The park therefore changes quite sharply as children grow

Kraken Island gives mixed-height families a different kind of shared space between those ride bands. Its large nets, bridges and slides provide open-ended physical play between ride sessions, while the seasonal water equipment adds another mode in warmer months

That range now defines Seoulland alongside its 1988 first-theme-park history. The current zoned framework sits beside newer additions that keep changing how children physically use the park

Before you go

Height is the key planning variable for rides. Several children’s attractions have maximum-height cutoffs as well as minimums, while the larger thrill rides begin around 110–140 cm. Checking the current attraction list against each child’s height prevents whole groups of rides from becoming surprises on the day