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Landmarks are the named points of interest scattered across the city expedition map of NAKWON: LAST PARADISE, a ruined version of Seoul that survivors enter from the Yeouido refuge during a nightly expedition. The closed alpha build that ran from 11 March 2026 to 16 March 2026 shipped fourteen named landmarks, several of them placed in or around the Jongno district. Together these sites form the navigation backbone of the map, anchoring missions, route planning, extractions, and the spatial memory players build up across multiple expedition runs.

Although the dossier does not detail the interior layout, loot priority, or scripted encounters of every landmark, the role of these sites within the expedition loop is consistent. Each landmark is used as a waypoint in mission text and call-outs, doubles as a navigation reference between unmarked alleys and ruined streets, and shapes the infected encounters a player can expect there. The audio environment is also tied to location: ambient sound, footstep echo, and threat density vary from one landmark to another, which matters because the special infected confirmed in the alpha are highly sensitive to noise. Several landmarks come in matched North and South pairs (the two Art Galleries, the two Reconstruction Sites, and the two Parking Lots), implying a deliberately symmetric layout where the same building or facility is duplicated on opposite halves of the map.

For an introduction to the wider game and how expeditions slot into the day-night structure of the refugee loop, see the overview article and the day-night cycle entry. The two named landmarks with their own dedicated wiki articles are linked from the table below; the remaining twelve are listed by name only, as the closed-alpha materials do not yet describe their interiors or function.

Confirmed Landmarks

The fourteen landmarks below are the complete list confirmed by Mintrocket and Nexon for the closed-alpha city expedition map. The Notes column captures only what the official materials state; landmarks without further detail are listed without speculation.

Notes on the Map's Design

Three of the fourteen landmarks are explicitly tied to real-world Seoul geography in the source material: NAKWON Arcade and Tapgol Park borrow their names from well-known sites in the Jongno district, and Jongno Building takes its name from the district itself. The remaining eleven landmarks are not placed in any specific Seoul neighborhood by the official materials, so this article does not assign them to one. The North and South pairings on the Art Gallery, Reconstruction Site, and Parking Lot landmarks are the clearest hint at the map's overall structure, suggesting an expedition zone laid out along a north-to-south axis with mirrored facilities on either side.

Future builds are set to add new expedition areas beyond the closed-alpha set documented here. The first of these to be previewed is a large indoor Shopping Mall map, detailed below. This article will be expanded as additional landmarks and maps become officially confirmed.

The Shopping Mall Map

In June 2026 the development team previewed a new map called the Shopping Mall, the first expedition area shown outside the Jongno district. It is a large-scale shopping complex that features a casino, luxury boutiques, and a megamart. Unlike the open, urban streets of Jongno, the Shopping Mall takes place entirely indoors, and the team rebuilt the expedition routes and the extraction method around vertical movement, so survivors travel through the building floor by floor. Supporting this layout is a new map system that can show multiple floors at once. As of the preview the map was still in development and had not appeared in a playable build.

The map carries its own backstory. It was once home to a community of survivors who relied on supplies from the mart, then moved into the luxury wing and turned it into a shelter where they could eat, sleep, and live. Casino chips became a makeshift currency, and parts of the complex were converted into playgrounds and small farms, with checkpoints set up at the entrances. That group eventually came into conflict with the NAKWON Governance Committee, and the mall was turned into an expedition zone. Traces of its past remain in the environment: the underground parking lot holds structures that resemble a fighting arena, and the casino keeps its VIP rooms. The design draws on a real large shopping mall in the Yeongdeungpo area of Seoul, reworked to fit the game, with less interesting spaces such as movie theaters cut and more interactive features such as casinos added.