📸 Photo booths in Seoul: a STAY's guide to 4-cut photos
Korean self-service photo booths print a strip of four photos ('4-cut', 네컷) in a few minutes. Brands you'll see include Life4Cuts (인생네컷), Photoism (포토이즘), Harufilm (하루필름) and Photogray (포토그레이). Many birthday cafés include a booth or a special frame too.
Step by step
- Find oneHongdae, Sinchon, Myeongdong and Gangnam have booths on almost every block, many open late or 24 hours and unstaffed.
- Pay at the kioskA strip of four usually costs a few thousand won; most kiosks take cards, some only cash. Choose how many people and prints.
- Pick a frameBooths rotate limited frames, sometimes tied to artists or birthdays. Birthday cafés may run their own booth or frame — it shows as 포토부스 on the poster.
- Use the propsHair bands, glasses and hats sit in a basket inside or outside the booth. Put them back when you leave.
- Shoot and chooseThere's a countdown for each shot. Afterwards you pick the four shots and a filter on the screen.
- Get the digital copyScan the QR code on the print within the time limit to download the photos and the short video.
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Before you go
- The QR download link expires — save the files the same day.
- At a birthday café booth, follow the host's rules (some limit one session per order).
Checked Oct 8 · Sources: www.offmate.kr · www.offmate.kr
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