Seoul Botanic Park has opened an exhibition called In Green that runs through December 31, built around a simple premise: instead of treating plants as a specialized hobby confined to greenhouses and garden beds, the show stages them inside the kinds of rooms visitors actually live in.
The exhibition opened October 2 at the park's Garden Support Center in Gangseo District, where it runs Tuesday through Sunday, and shifts its central display each month to follow a different domestic setting.
A Room a Month
October's theme centers on kitchen styling, with hanging planters built from repurposed wooden cutting boards standing in for a conventional display shelf. November moves the show into bedrooms and workspaces, where nightstands and desks hold moss terrariums instead of the usual clutter. December closes the run with sunrooms and balconies, featuring winterized gardens and macrame plant holders suited to the colder months, a sequence that effectively walks visitors through an entire home over three months rather than presenting plants in a single static setting.
Hands-On Alongside the Display
Beyond the rotating room displays, the park runs drop-in workshops on the second and fourth Saturday afternoons of each month, where instructors walk participants through building their own custom botanical pieces rather than leaving the exhibition as something to simply look at.
A Separate Hall for What's Disappearing
A second component of the exhibition takes a more conservation-minded turn. Project Hall 2 displays pressed-flower specimens of 47 rare and endangered native plant species, including the prickly water lily, all cultivated in the park's own greenhouses. Guides direct visitors from the pressed specimens to the living versions growing in the park's outdoor gardens, pairing a preserved record of each plant with the chance to see it still growing.
The Idea Behind the Show
Director On Su-jin framed the exhibition's underlying goal directly, saying the aim is to present plants not merely as objects of a specialized hobby, but as companions naturally sharing our everyday spaces, a description that applies as much to the pressed rarities in Project Hall 2 as it does to the cutting-board planters in October's kitchen display. The park is also offering admission discounts for local transit pass holders and expectant mothers, extending the exhibition's everyday framing to who gets an easier way in as well.