Los Angeles → Seoul flights

Target $343–$370 for LAX–Seoul; don't wait past the mid-range

Key takeaways

• Median fare is $370 across 30 daily snapshots — a reasonable anchor for budget planning.
• Bottom 25% of fares came in at $343 or below — that's the realistic 'good deal' threshold, not the $283 floor.
• The $283 low is real but rare — it sat well outside the interquartile range, so treat it as an opportunistic catch, not a planning baseline.
• Spread of 40% (low $283 to high $395) is meaningful, suggesting fare volatility that rewards early monitoring over last-minute booking.
• Top 75% of fares were $380 or below, so paying above $380 on this route likely means you've missed the window.

30-day price trend

See full numbers and stats on the LAX → ICN price history page.

The full picture

LAX–Seoul (ICN) is a long-haul transpacific route where fares in our 30-day snapshot clustered tightly between $343 (p25) and $380 (p75), with a median of $370. That $37 interquartile spread is relatively narrow in absolute terms, but the 40% overall spread — from a $283 floor to a $395 ceiling — tells a more nuanced story: most days you'll land somewhere in the mid-$300s, but genuinely low fares do surface and disappear quickly. The $283 low is worth noting as a ceiling-breaker in the other direction; if you see fares near that level, the data suggests it won't persist.

On a route of this distance, booking behavior matters more than day-of-week folklore. The 40% spread implies that prices are not static and that fare class availability shifts — typically tightening as departure approaches and seats fill in economy cabins. While our snapshot data doesn't map fares to a specific advance-purchase window, the distribution suggests that buyers who monitor early and act when fares break below $350 are consistently landing in the bottom quartile. Waiting until fares approach $380–$395 means you're in the upper range of what this route typically costs, with limited upside from holding out further.

No dominant carrier signal was visible in the data provided, so we can't attribute the low-fare periods to a specific airline's sale cycles. What the data does support is a clear target zone: if you see a fare at or below $343, that's a bottom-quartile outcome worth booking. Between $343 and $370 is normal territory. Above $380, you're paying a premium relative to the 30-day pattern. One honest caveat: 30 daily snapshots capture cached fares at a moment in time and may not reflect real-time seat availability or seasonal demand spikes around Korean holidays and summer travel peaks — always verify directly with the airline or booking platform before purchasing.

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