Massage parlors near Seoul International Airport

Incheon Airport in Seoul, South Korea is one of the biggest and best airports anywhere in the world. If you fly in Asia, there is a good chance you’ll stop there at least once. The airport has plenty to do inside including a museum and an ice skating rink. But there’s nowhere for a guy to go and drain his balls on a quick stopover. Or is there?

South Korea is home to quite a large adult entertainment industry. But most of it is closed to foreign men. In part due to this atmosphere there are escort agencies catering to foreign guys in the country. But they require advance booking and the use of a guest friendly hotel. Still there are several venues open to foreigners within reasonable range of the airport.

The AREX train to Unseo

South Korea’s public transportation system is cheap, clean and efficient. And in this case it’ll take you right to an area filled with massage parlors in a matter of minutes. There are other things in the are too as I will explain.

There is a train connected to the airport called the Airport Express train or AREX. It’s easy to find by following the signs in the airport or simply asking someone. There’s an automated ticket machine which provides instructions in many languages including English. Unseo is just two stops from the airport. It is a small town built recently for airport workers and travelers. It’s full of hotels and restaurants and not much else. The total trip on the train takes less than five minutes.

When you arrive at Unseo Station, you will see that there is only one exit. Straight out of the exit there is a large public square. Past that there is a single visible traffic light. Just beyond that light lies the center of the town. The layout is simple. You won’t get lost. The whole town is surrounded on all sides by trees, trains and the like anyway, so there is simply no way to wonder out of it!

After going straight through the intersection with the station behind you, you will soon see a 7Eleven convenience store on your right.  After passing this convenience store, you will start seeing signs for massage parlors on the street. They will be made of wood or inflated and lit up. They will say things like “Thai Massage” or “Sports Massage.”

Massage parlors in Unseo

The Thai Massage place will be first. It is on the fifth floor of the building with the sign. If look up from the street, you will see that the windows of the entire fifth floor are blocked out with “Thai massage” signs. Just enter the building and head up via the elevator.

There are plenty more places in this small area. If you cross the street, the first building has a shop called “Wellbeing Massage” on the third floor. Again, just enter the building lobby and head up on the elevator.

In the buildings surrounding this place, there are several more massage parlors. Look for inflatable signs, double barber poles (a sign of sex shops in much of Asia), and the numerous advertisements thrown on the ground. Almost all of the big square buildings you will encounter after waling a block past the Thai Massage place will have at least one massage parlor inside.

If for some odd reason you have trouble, there are even ads inside all the elevators next to the floor numbers. They even have illustrations of massage in case you can’t read. The signs are usually in English, Korean and Japanese. This indicates foreigner friendliness.

Prices and services

The prices seem to be relatively uniform. The norm seems to be 150,000 won ($140 USD). Some may try to negotiate though I doubt it has much of any result. The price is basically the price. You usually pay up front to the same mamasan who greets you.

After payment, you’ll be taken to your massage room. These are clean and private. You masseuse will come in next.

The women that work in these shops seem to all be in their thirties or forties. They are professionals of moderate looks. It seems the level of English spoken at massage parlors in this area is higher than those in Seoul proper too, probably from the influx of travelers.

You will be told to strip of your clothes. When you get down to your bare ass, you’ll be wrapped in a towel and taken to the table shower room. Here you’ll get a back and front soapy scrub by hand. Extra attention will probably be paid to your tender bits.

When you get back to the room your masseuse will give you a short soft massage followed by standard full service. No hand relief here, you get to go inside (with a latex sheath of course). Oral is on the menu too! After a few positions she’ll have you shooting. After that, you lay back and let her clean you up. Depending on how much time you’ve used up doing the do, she may give you a little more soft massage or chit chat.

Clean up and summary

When you’ve finished, get dressed and head out the door. Tipping is neither required or expected in South Korea. And these places are no exception.

All-in-all, these massage shops are a lot like the Korean massage parlors in other parts of the world. They are just a lot closer to home as it were.

Cheaper and arguably better service is available on Hooker Hill and places like Belle. There are also a number of independent escorts around. But those are all the way in Seoul. Unseo seems like the most convenient option for any guy who is stuck in the airport and wants to blow a load. You can get there from the airport, do your business, and get back in about an hour if everything goes right.

Gimpo Airport in Seoul is not far from Incheon Airport and is connected by train. You can also get to these massage parlors by train from Gimpo by simply traveling in the opposite direction. There’s nothing else to it. The total trip from Gimpo should take 15-20 minutes each way via rail.

An update

Years ago when this website was still in its infancy, I published an article on happy ending massage parlors in the immediate vicinity of South Korea’s Incheon International Airport. In the years that have passed since that piece was put online many people have commented. More than a few seem to question or otherwise challenge my findings.

As explained many times this website is only intended for entertainment. I don’t recommend that anyone do anything. I simply report on what I know. At times I may be wrong. When I am I don’t mind that readers point it out. In fact I welcome that sort of input which helps me expand my knowledge on the global industry. Although I do have extensive knowledge on the seedy happenings in many cities around the world I cannot be everywhere at all times.

Massage parlors in Unseo

I first reported on the adult entertainment in Unseo in 2013. I was passing on accurate information to the best of my knowledge. Things change with time and they change even more in the adult entertainment industry than they do in most other aspects of life. Because of that I thought it might be possible that the kinds of places I reported about near the airport had closed up shop. Especially since reports of people unable to location such facilities seem to have grown with time. For that reason I decided to do a more recent investigation in 2017. What I found is that there are the same amount of adult oriented massage parlors operating in the area now as there were before, if not more.

I am unable to report on every single adult related business in the area at the moment. Even if I had the extensive amount of time and resources required to check out every business club, karaoke room and massage parlor in the area I would probably apply it elsewhere. I prefer to keep things interesting by covering a wide variety of areas and subjects. Besides some places are difficult to cover in any real depth. So rather than try to figure out what goes down in every bar and club around I will instead cover a handful of massage parlors in an effort to show that my previous reporting was indeed accurate.

Of course this is all unfixed. Anything could change from one minute to the next. A place could close tomorrow or change its mode of operation. One guy could be denied a service that is extended to most others on the basis on any number of circumstances. There’s a reason the phrase “your mileage may vary” is so often used when people talk about the commercial sex industry.

Cool Massage

Cool Massage which is not be confused with the similarly named Cool massage parlor in Gangnam is located in a pedestrian courtyard just outside of the Unseo train station the AREX train line. This line connects directly to the airport which is only two stops away. Cool is located on the fifth floor. Customers walk inside to a small lobby and pay for their sessions which run 180,000 Won ($162 USD). This includes a full service massage and a table shower from a women in her thirties or forties who can speak basic English. These women tend to be fairly attractive for their age and skilled in their work.

King Massage

King Massage is another Korean massage place located on the road leading straight out of the local train station. It is boldly advertised and signs on all four sides of the building can be seen from blocks away. Like most of the other massage facilities in the area King advertises in English and Korean. This is one sign that it is foreigner friendly. Another is that everything in this part of Korea seems to be. King has much nicer facilities than Cool Massage. The lobby is clean and open and looks a lot like a real spa would. I would wonder if any couples or families would wander in if the place wasn’t tucked away up a flight of stairs. Standard full service sessions including table showers are available for the usual price. They tend to be nothing out of the ordinary. The women are standard for the area too.

Sun Massage

I published a full review of Sun Massage a while back. Located about a block from King on the same street it is a little closer to the train station. The place basically operates like the others around. The lobby is nicer than the lobby at Cool but the rooms are no better. They serve their purpose and are definitely superior to the quarters of questionable structural integrity used by some places in countries like Cambodia and Thailand but they are nothing pretty. While I doubt that anyone visits a place like Sun for the rooms it does help to note things like this when painting a picture of the local scene. There is always a variance among staff and services but a lot of the women at Sun seem to lean toward the mechanical and can be real clock watchers. A full service session runs 150,000 Won ($135 USD). Foreign customers are accepted but rushed through a short table shower and romp session that can end in well under thirty minutes. The women look no better or worse than those at the two places mentioned above.

More massage parlors

There are at least three other massage parlors operating in the area including the Thai Massage place located just outside of the train station that I reported on in my first article on the area. Since Thai massage parlors in South Korea usually don’t offer any special services that can be ignored for statistically purposes. Still, that means that there are at least five places like this total operating in a very small area. It’s likely that there are even more massage parlors that I have missed. As stated I did not set out to do a full investigation. I was simply interested in checking my previous work.

Some of the massage parlors in the area have signs saying that are open 24 hours. Most seem to be even if they don’t. Being open isn’t the same as operating at full capacity however. A lot of the places go dormant in the early morning hours and there are moments when guys can even wander in to lobbies without seeing a single person. I guess everyone has to sleep and off hours with few visitors would seem to be the most opportune time to get some shuteye.

I don’t have much else to say on the subject though I do find it puzzling that some people seem to be unable to locate all of these very public shops. I cannot chalk that up to an inability to read Korean. While the Korean word massage (마사지) is easy enough to recognize even for those who do not understand the language it is not necessary to know it since plenty of places have signs in English (and Japanese and Chinese) too. I can’t really chalk it up to anything. It’s simply tough to miss big glowing signs saying “massage”.

I guess this will remain one of life’s great mysteries.