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MOKA Children’s Book Museum in Pangyo: A Day Out with Kids
January 2026
MOKA, the children’s book museum inside Hyundai Department Store in Pangyo, felt like a perfect match for Liam, who loves art, so we signed up without hesitation, even for a one-hour paid class, and it turned out to be a really good decision. With just an entry ticket you can join plenty of free art activities in a space called ART LAB. Right now they’re running “Sculpture Garden 2,” where kids can stick wallpaper freely onto a big sculpture or make little clay plants and set them out on the tables. These activities change from time to time, so keep in mind that what’s on may be different depending on when you visit. The paid classes have to be booked in advance, about a month ahead, and they sell out in no time, so watch closely and book as soon as they open. Liam took the India-themed class, and it was 20,000 won including admission.
MOKA children’s book museum: visitor information
Opening hours are 10 am to 7 pm, with last entry at 6 pm. It’s closed every Monday, on January 1, and on Lunar New Year and Chuseok day. Admission is 6,000 won for adults and children alike, though it can vary by exhibition. Children under 3 get in free. Paid education programs are charged separately, so check each one when you book. You can use the department store car park, with 2 hours free parking when you visit the museum or join a class. For enquiries, call 031-5170-3700.
Getting there
It’s on the 5th floor of Hyundai Department Store Pangyo, at 20, Pangyoyeok-ro 146beon-gil, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si. By subway, take the Shinbundang Line to Pangyo Station, go out exit 3 and head toward the department store. The station and the store are linked by an underground passage, so you can also come straight through from exit 2, but that’s only open after 10:30 am. If you drive, just park in the department store car park.
MOKA floor by floor (5th and 6th)
MOKA takes up two floors of Hyundai Department Store Pangyo, the 5th and 6th.
The 5th floor is the first thing you meet when you come in. There’s a stepping-stone style staircase called “Bubble Steps” where kids can climb up and down, read and rest, and “MOKA Lab & Atelier” is a creative space where they can make and draw to their heart’s content, so this is where you can do the free art activities. There’s also the MOKA Shop and Cafe, and a media room for films, music and talks.
Up on the 6th floor there’s a library called “Open Library,” a forest of reading with 6,000 picture books from Korea and abroad. The paid classes you book run in the “Studios (1 to 3)” on this floor, and there’s a kids’ toilet here too.
A great place to spend the whole day
Since it’s inside the department store, it was lovely to go back and forth between the store and the museum on a cold winter day. When we got hungry from playing at the museum, we came out to the store for lunch, then went back in to play again. You really can spend a whole day here. For lunch we had pizza and pasta at an Italian restaurant on the same floor as the museum, and it was tasty.
There’s a door connecting the children’s museum to the outside, and when you open it and step right out, there’s a carousel. You can also see it from inside through the floor-to-ceiling glass. Your entry ticket comes with a carousel ticket, so you can ride the carousel outside next to the museum.
Free art activities
Near the entrance there are various displays to look at, and next to them is an art space set up for kids. There were all sorts of activities, and Liam did drawing and clay play. The drawing alone took over 30 minutes, and the clay took a good while too, but as the day went on it got more and more crowded, so it got a little hard to do the activities among so many people.
Skillmatics Foil Fun – Animals, No Mess Art for Kids
India culture class, “Traveling the World with MOKA”
After lunch we joined the “Traveling the World with MOKA” class we’d booked, the India edition. It’s a class where kids learn about Indian culture along with picture books. On the way in, they put a bindi on each child’s forehead. A bindi is a small round decoration worn between the eyebrows in India. In the class the kids made a dupatta, a traditional Indian scarf you drape over your shoulders or head, and each child drew on the fabric to decorate it. They also each made a rangoli, a traditional Indian pattern drawn on the floor with colored powder or paint, and there was a big rangoli laid out on the classroom floor that all the kids could join in on together too.
If your child enjoys meeting other cultures through picture books, it’s nice to carry that on at home with multicultural picture books. This set is lovely to read with your child over and over.
The 6th floor where we had the class also has the Open Library full of picture books, so it was a nice spot to sit and read. Next to it was a wide space for crafts, with all kinds of materials, so you could take what you wanted and make something at the table. There were other play areas too.
Handy facilities for families
The facilities were great for getting around with a child. The toilets weren’t crowded and were easy to use, and since it’s all indoors it was easy to push a stroller around. There were lockers too, so in winter you could store the coats you weren’t wearing inside and any heavy bags, which was really handy.
We arrived at the 10 am opening, and Liam played past 3 pm without ever noticing the time go by. He loved it so much. If your child loves art, this is a place you simply have to visit.
