How Show2Gate rates a plan

How show end is treated

The typed show-end time is the Seoul-time anchor. Door time is not exit time. If you will stay for the encore, enter a later ending. The rating uses show end only.

Exit buffer

Each venue adds a min–max exit range. Busier halls have a wider spread. Planning a taxi does not remove queue time; it sits in this buffer.

Transfer and last trains

If exit falls between 23:00 and 05:00, we use late-night ranges. Last-train clocks are station or airport times, not venue leave-by cutoffs, so they stay out of the verdict until confirmed. Late night prefers taxi or shuttle; daytime prefers mixed or AREX.

Airport arrival buffer

Internal recommended arrival is 180 minutes before ICN international, 120 before GMP international, and 90 for domestic. Checked bags add 20 minutes; conservative mode adds 20 more. This is not an airline cutoff. Incheon Airport’s City Airport Terminal at Seoul Station closes check-in 3 hours before T1 and 3 hours 20 minutes before T2.

Spare minutes and levels

Worst-case spare minutes: 60+ Comfortable, 30+ Usually possible, 0+ Tight, −60+ Not recommended, below that Not realistic. Confidence follows crowd and transfer quality. Anonymized arrival reports may tighten these ranges later.

Morning-stay rating

Stay mode does not rate a same-night run to the airport. It rates hotel arrival in the top stay area, rest, then the next-morning airport transfer. Rest is worst-case minutes from hotel arrival to the leave-hotel time that still meets recommended airport arrival. 6h+ Comfortable, 4h+ Usually possible, 3h+ Tight, 1.5h+ Not recommended, below that Not realistic.

How this was verified

• Some exit and transfer times are conservative estimates from public transit information and typical road times. Airport buffers are internal recommended arrivals.

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