Sungchan Park

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Exploring Euljiro

Exploring Euljiro

TIMEWORN, OIL-STAINED FACTORIES; Seun Arcade, where vendors sell videocassette porn from the shadows; and old run-down stores... On Euljiro, once a symbol of Koreaโ€™s modernization, time now seems frozen in the โ€˜70s and โ€˜80s. During its golden age, this central Seoul thoroughfare was such a hive of industry and commerce that you could even, so the joke went, have a tank built there. But since Seoulโ€™s economic heart shifted south to Gangnam, Euljiro has become almost foreign to younger Koreans, even those born and raised in Seoul. Now, however, the tired giant is stirring once more. The capital's nomadic artists, always on the lookout for cheap studio space, have begun moving into Euljiro's aging buildings, accompanied by the usual hipsters and their quirky cafรฉs, bars and record shops. Meanwhile, old restaurants that have been feeding the area's working classes for years have shown up on the mediaโ€™s radar, bringing in fresh stampedes of hungry visitors. Head here to experience the coexistence of 2016 and the 1970s.

์ˆ  ๋งˆ์‹œ๊ธฐ ์ข‹์€ ๋ฃจํ”„ํ†ฑ๊ณผ ํ…Œ๋ผ์Šค 21

์ˆ  ๋งˆ์‹œ๊ธฐ ์ข‹์€ ๋ฃจํ”„ํ†ฑ๊ณผ ํ…Œ๋ผ์Šค 21

๊ณต๊ธฐ ์ข‹์€ ๊ณณ์—์„œ ๋งˆ์‹œ๋Š” ์ˆ ์€ ์ทจํ•˜์ง€๋„ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค๊ณ  ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค. ์„œ์šธ์˜ ๊ณต๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์ข‹์œผ๋ฉด ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์ข‹๊ฒ ๋ƒ๋งˆ๋Š” ์Šต๊ธฐ ์ฐจ๊ณ  ๋ƒ„์ƒˆ ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ง€ํ•˜๋ณด๋‹ค์•ผ ํƒ ํŠธ์ธ ์˜ฅ์ƒ์ด๋‚˜ ๋‚˜๋ฌด๊ฐ€ ์šฐ๊ฑฐ์ง„ ์•ผ์™ธ์—์„œ ์ˆ ์„ ๋งˆ์‹œ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ํ›จ์”ฌ ์ข‹์ง€ ์•„๋‹ˆํ•œ๊ฐ€! ๊ฒŒ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์ง€๊ธˆ์€ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„! ํƒ ํŠธ์ธ ์•ผ์™ธ์—์„œ ๋ฐค๋ฐ”๋žŒ์„ ๋งž์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํ˜น์€ ๋„์‹œ์˜ ๋ถˆ๋น›์ด ์šฐ์ฃผ์˜ ๋ณ„์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ํŽผ์ณ์ง€๋Š” ์„œ์šธ์˜ ์•ผ๊ฒฝ์„ ๊ฐ์ƒํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„๋ฐค์„ ๋ณด๋‚ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ ์žฅ์†Œ๋“ค์„ ๋ชจ์•˜๋‹ค.

Top 21 outdoor bars in Seoul

Top 21 outdoor bars in Seoul

There's nothing better than drinking out in the open, on a rooftop orย  outdoors. Here are the best spots in Seoul for you to enjoy the summer night breeze under the starry sky.

Makgeolli Madness

Makgeolli Madness

Traditionally made with rice, barley or wheat and naturally fermented (and sometimes flavored with nuts or fruits), makgeolli is known to be the oldest alcoholic drink in Korea. Fragrant and refreshing, this milky drink which pairs beautifully with many Korean dishes makes for an especially great choice for large gatherings during holidays. And of course, what you get at a convenient store representsย only a fraction of the diverse types you can try and explore in Seoul. Whether in a traditional setting or with a modern twist, theseย makgeolliย bars will offerย an array ofย delectable and invigorating sips.

๋ด‰์ฒœ๋™์˜ ๋ณ€์‹ , ์ƒค๋กœ์ˆ˜๊ธธ

๋ด‰์ฒœ๋™์˜ ๋ณ€์‹ , ์ƒค๋กœ์ˆ˜๊ธธ

์„œ์šธ์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํŠน์ƒ‰ ์—†๋Š” ๋Œ€ํ•™๊ฐ€์˜€๋˜ ์„œ์šธ๋Œ€ ์ž…๊ตฌ. ์ง€ํ•˜์ฒ ์—ญ์—์„œ ์„œ์šธ๋Œ€ ์บ ํผ์Šค๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ฒ„์Šค๋ฅผ ํƒ€๊ณ  10๋ถ„ ์ •๋„ ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ฌธ์ œ์˜€๋‹ค. ๋˜ ์ง€๊ธˆ์€ ์•„ํŒŒํŠธ ๋‹จ์ง€๋กœ ๋ณ€ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์—๋Š” ์„œ์šธ์˜ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ์  ๋นˆ๋ฏผ๊ฐ€์˜€๋˜ ์ฃผ๋ณ€์˜ ๋ด‰์ฒœ๋™์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๋ฐœ์ „์ด ๋Šฆ์–ด์ง„ ํƒ“๋„ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒŒ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์ฃผ๋ณ€์—๋Š” ๊ณ ๋งŒ๊ณ ๋งŒํ•œ ๋ชจํ…”์ดŒ๋„ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ ์ดŒ์ด๋‚˜ ํ™๋Œ€, ๋Œ€ํ•™๋กœ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋Œ€ํ•™๊ฐ€๋“ค๊ณผ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ ์ด ๋™๋„ค๋Š” ๋ณ„๋กœ ๋ฐœ์ „ํ•  ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ์—†์–ด ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ๊ณณ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ 2010๋…„ ์ˆ˜์ œํ–„๋ฒ„๊ฑฐ์ง‘์ธ โ€˜์ €๋‹ˆโ€™๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ž‘์œผ๋กœ ๋ง‰๊ฑธ๋ฆฌ์นดํŽ˜ ์žก, ์ˆ˜๋‹ค๋ฉ”๋ฆฌ๊นŒ ๊ฐ™์€ ํŠน์ƒ‰ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ๊ฐ€ ํ•˜๋‚˜ ๋‘˜ ๋ฌธ์„ ์—ด๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ด ๋™๋„ค๋งŒ์˜ ๋…ํŠนํ•œ ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ํ˜•์„ฑ๋˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์ Š์€ ์‚ฌ์žฅ๋“ค์ด ์ด๊ณณ์œผ๋กœ ๋ชจ์ด๊ฒŒ ๋œ ์ด์œ ๋Š” ๋ฌด์—‡๋ณด๋‹ค ์‹ผ ์ž„๋Œ€๋ฃŒ. ๋…ํŠนํ•œ ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ํ˜•์„ฑ๋˜์ž ๊ด€์•…๊ตฌ์ฒญ์€ ์ด ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋†“์น˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ์„œ์šธ๋Œ€ ์ •๋ฌธ์˜โ€˜์ƒคโ€™์™€ โ€˜๊ฐ€๋กœ์ˆ˜๊ธธโ€™์„ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉํ•ด โ€˜์ƒค๋กœ์ˆ˜๊ธธโ€™์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๋ช…์นญ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ํ™๋ณด๋„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ์‹ค ์ƒค๋กœ์ˆ˜๊ธธ์€ ์ด๋ฆ„์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ (?) ๋ฉ‹์ง€๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์„ธ๋ จ๋œ ๋™๋„ค๋Š” ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „์„ ์€ ์ •๋ฆฌ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์ฑ„ ์ •์‹ ์—†์ด ๊ฑธ๋ ค ์žˆ๊ณ  ๊ตฐ๋ฐ๊ตฐ๋ฐ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ์˜ค๋ž˜๋œ ์„ธํƒ์†Œ์™€ ๋ฏธ์šฉ์‹ค, ์Šˆํผ๋งˆ์ผ“์—์„œ๋Š” ์„ธ์›”์˜ ํ”์ ์ด ๋Š๊ปด์ง„๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ €๋ ดํ•œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋‚˜๋ผ์˜ ์Œ์‹์„ ๋ง›๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ , ๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ ์ฃผ์ธ๋“ค ๊ฐ„์˜ ๋ˆ๋ˆํ•œ ์œ ๋Œ€๊ฐ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ณจ๋ชฉ๊ธธ์—์„œ ๋Š๊ปด์ง€๋Š” ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์‹œ์ ˆ์˜ ์ถ”์–ต๊นŒ์ง€. ์—ฌํƒœ๊ป ์ฃผ๋ชฉ๋ฐ›์ง€ ๋ชปํ•œ ์ ์ด ์˜คํžˆ๋ ค ์ด๊ณณ์˜ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ด ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์ตœ๊ทผ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์‹ ๋ฌธ๊ณผ ๋งค์ฒด์—์„œ๋„ ๋‹ค๋ฃฐ ๋งŒํผ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋™๋„ค๋กœ ์ฃผ๋ชฉ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์ตœ๊ทผ ์ƒค๋กœ์ˆ˜๊ธธ์˜ ์˜์—ญ์ด ๋‚™์„ฑ๋Œ€์—ญ๊นŒ์ง€ ํ™•์žฅ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ ๊ฒฐ์ฝ” ๋†“์ณ์„œ๋Š” ์•ˆ ๋  ์ธ๊ทผ์˜ ๋ช…์†Œ๋“ค์„ ๋ชจ์•˜๋‹ค. ์—๋””ํ„ฐ์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ์‚ฌ๋กœ์žก์€ ๊ณณ๋“ค์ด๋‹ˆ ๊ฒฐ์ฝ” ๋†“์น˜์ง€ ๋ง ๊ฒƒ!

๋‹ค์‹œ ๋œจ๋Š” ์ฒญ๋‹ด๋™

๋‹ค์‹œ ๋œจ๋Š” ์ฒญ๋‹ด๋™

, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊นŒ์ง€. ์ฒญ๋‹ด๋™์€ ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ ์ œ๋ชฉ์œผ๋กœ ์œ ๋… ์ž์ฃผ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋งŒํผ ์ฒญ๋‹ด๋™์€ ์„œ์šธ์—์„œ ์•„์ฃผ ํŠน์ดํ•˜๊ณ  ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋…ํŠนํ•œ ๋ฌธํ™”๋ฅผ ์ง€๋‹Œ ๋™๋„ค์ด๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ. ์ด๊ณณ์˜ ์ „์„ฑ๊ธฐ๋Š” 1990๋…„๋Œ€ ์ค‘๋ฐ˜๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 2000๋…„๋Œ€ ์ค‘๋ฐ˜๊นŒ์ง€์˜€๋‹ค. ๋ช…ํ’ˆ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋“ค์ด ์ฒญ๋‹ด๋™ ๋ฉ”์ธ๊ธธ์„ ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์„ธ๊ณ„์ ์ธ ๊ฑด์ถ•๊ฐ€๋“ค์„ ๋‚ด์„ธ์šด ํ™”๋ คํ•œ ํ”Œ๋ž˜๊ทธ์‹ญ ์Šคํ† ์–ด๋ฅผ ์—ด๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๊ณจ๋ชฉ๊ณจ๋ชฉ์—” ์œ ๋Ÿฝ ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ฌผ์”ฌ ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ธ‰ ๋ ˆ์Šคํ† ๋ž‘๊ณผ ์นดํŽ˜๊ฐ€ ์ฆ๋น„ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ ์นจ์ฒด๊ฐ€ ์ด์–ด์ง€๋ฉฐ ์ฒญ๋‹ด๋™ ์ด๊ณณ์ €๊ณณ์—” ์ž„๋Œ€ ํ˜„์ˆ˜๋ง‰์ด ๊ฑธ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์‹ ์‚ฌ๋™ ๊ฐ€๋กœ์ˆ˜๊ธธ๊ณผ ์ดํƒœ์›์ด ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ํ•ซ์ŠคํŒŸ์œผ๋กœ ๋– ์˜ค๋ฅด๋ฉฐ ๋ฐ˜์ง์ด๋˜ ์ฒญ๋‹ด๋™์€ ๊ธ‰๊ฒฉํžˆ ๋น›์„ ์žƒ์–ด๊ฐ”๋‹ค. ์ฃผ๋ง ๋ฐค์ด๋ฉด ๋ถˆ์•ผ์„ฑ์„ ์ด๋ฃจ๋˜ ๋ผ์šด์ง€ โ€˜S๋ฐ”โ€™๋„, ์นดํŽ˜ ๋ฌธํ™”๋ฅผ ์„ ๋„ํ•˜๋˜ โ€˜ํ•˜๋ฃจ์—โ€™๋„ ์—ญ์‚ฌ ์†์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ๋ผ์ง€๊ณ  ๋งŒ ๊ฒƒ. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์กฐ์šฉํ•˜๋˜ ์ฒญ๋‹ด๋™์ด ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋– ์˜ค๋ฅด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ์ด๋„๋Š” ์—ฐ์˜ˆ ๊ธฐํš์‚ฌ๋“ค ์•ž์—๋Š” ์†Œ์† ์—ฐ์˜ˆ์ธ๋“ค์„ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์™ธ๊ตญ ์†Œ๋…€ ํŒฌ๋“ค๋กœ ๋ฌธ์ „์„ฑ์‹œ๋ฅผ ์ด๋ฃจ๊ณ , ์ผ๋ณธ์ธ์ด ์ฃผ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ด์—ˆ๋˜ ๊ณ ๊ธ‰ ๋ถ€ํ‹ฐํฌ๋“ค์€ ์ด์ œ ์ค‘๊ตญ์ธ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค๋กœ ์ •์‹ ์ด ์—†๋‹ค. ๋ฌด์—‡๋ณด๋‹ค ์ด ๋™๋„ค๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์ฃผ๋ชฉ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ด์œ ๋Š” ํ”๋“ค๋ฆผ ์—†์ด ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ ๋ง›์„ ์„ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ๋ ˆ์Šคํ† ๋ž‘๊ณผ ์‹ค๋ ฅ์„ ๊ฐ–์ถ˜ ๋ฐ”๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๊ฒจ๋‚ฌ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋‹ค. ๊ฑฐํ’ˆ์„ ์‚ด์ง ๊ฑท์–ด๋‚ด๊ณ  ์ข€ ๋” ์นœ๊ทผํ•˜๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋ฆฌ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณ€ํ•œ ์ฒญ๋‹ด๋™์˜ ๋งค๋ ฅ์— ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๋น ์ ธ๋ณด์ž.

LP ์Œ์•… ํŠธ๋Š” ์ดํƒœ์› ํ•ซํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์Šค

LP ์Œ์•… ํŠธ๋Š” ์ดํƒœ์› ํ•ซํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์Šค

์ดํƒœ์› ์ฃผ๋ณ€์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋‘˜ ๋ฌธ์„ ์—ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ ๋„˜์น˜๋Š” ์Œ์•… ๊ณต๊ฐ„๋“ค์„ ๋ชจ์•˜๋‹ค. ์—ฌ์œ ๋กญ๊ฒŒ LP๋กœ ์Œ์•…์„ ๋“ค์œผ๋ฉฐ ์ปคํ”ผ ํ•œ ์ž” ํ˜น์€ ์‹œ์›ํ•œ ๋งฅ์ฃผ ํ•œ์ž”ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ดํƒœ์›์˜ ํ•ซํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์Šค๋“ค.

์˜ค๋ž˜๋œ ์Œ์•… ๋‹ค๋ฐฉ

์˜ค๋ž˜๋œ ์Œ์•… ๋‹ค๋ฐฉ

๊ณผ๊ฑฐ๋กœ ์—ฌํ–‰์„ ๋– ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋ถ„์ด ๋“œ๋Š” ์•„์ฃผ ์˜ค๋ž˜๋œ ์„œ์šธ์˜ ๋‹ค๋ฐฉ๋“ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๊ณณ์—์„œ ์ฆ๊ธฐ๋Š” ํด๋ž˜์‹ ์Œ์•…!

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Cheon-yeon-ok Water Park

Cheon-yeon-ok Water Park

Since Cheon-yeon-ok Water Park only opened last June, the facilities are still in great shape. Located near Bukhansan, this outdoor swimming pool is surrounded by the forest. Unlike other water parks that prohibit outside food, this place has tables and power outlets set up for your cooking needs.

Mmm Records

Mmm Records

Mmm Records recently opened a shop dedicated to analog music culture, based on a private collectorโ€™s vinyl stash of over 80,000 LPs. Several listening stations are set up where you can check out their affordable LPs and 7-inch records priced from 1,000 won to about 10,000 won. The selection ranges from rare items like Korean golden oldie LPs to mainstream pop. Scattered within the store are turntables and boomboxes from the โ€˜80s, most of which are for sale. Dig for records indoors, or enjoy one of the best Vietnamese banh mi sandwiches in Seoul and egg coffee on the rooftop with an amazing view that stretches from the Han River to the N Seoul Tower. Seated on one of Itaewonโ€™s highest points on Woosadan-ro, Mmm Record offers a stunning view that would most likely to make the city's top 5 list. It's comparable to what you'd find on the highrises of Gangnamโ€”except it's much more unobtrusive. On the right side of the rooftop, youโ€™ll be able to see Namsan, Seoul Tower and all the little buildings that make up the foothills of Namsam Mountain. The left side exposes Han River and the concrete jungle of Gangnam which looks rather charming from a distance, especially at nightโ€”the day view remains somewhat realistic while the night view transforms into something more enchanting. The rooftop is relatively low-key, with plastic chairs casually laid out and nothing much going on for decoration. And it's not at all a bad thing in the case of this attractive venue, cause your eyes will be m

German House ๋…์ผ์ฃผํƒ

German House ๋…์ผ์ฃผํƒ

Even after numerous visits, I still get lost in the alleys of Hyehwadong, where the German House is located. Although its name suggests something else, the bar is located in a renovated hanok and sells various, unfamiliar beers from around the world. And they have explanations about different beers on the menu. For example, the Lindemans Pecheresse has peach nectar added to it and the Tripel Karmeliet has a soft yet deep taste. What sets the bar apart from others is that there are a lot of people who come here to drink alone. They enjoy their time sitting in the quiet courtyard under the sun, working on their laptops or listening to music while nursing their beers. Their Port wine is just as great as their beers so imbibe that as well.

Boy Circus

Boy Circus

Chae Nak-young is a chef and a glib talker who is actively engaged in cooking shows on TV. Recently, he opened a fun restaurant in Gwanghwamunโ€™s new landmark, D Tower. Itโ€™s said that he was inspired by circus performances, as they resembled the act of preparing dishes and delivering them to customersโ€™ tables, and so he designed this place according to that concept. Maybe it is because of that, but looking at the chefs cooking in the open kitchen in the middle of the hall is like attending a circus performance. Behind the flamboyant tents are the skyscrapers of Gwanghwamun and drinking cold beer or a glass of wine, you might confuse it with New York. The chefโ€™s witty interpretations of various European-style menu items, such as Gwanghwamun pรขtรฉ, made with French cookie dough, pork shoulder and foie gras or the Mudeungsan subak, a dish made with watermelon topped with mozzarella cheese and prosciutto, will pique your curiosity about what the circus has to offer.

Dongwonjip

Dongwonjip

3 out of 5 stars

The most popular dish here, gamjaguk (potato stew), costs only 7,000 won. This ddukbaegi pot full of delicious pork bones and potato is what we already know well as gamjatang (pork bone stew). Meanwhile, the steamed pork and sundae (Korean blood sausage stuffed with noodles) and other dishes here will help you plough through multiple bottles of soju without even realizing. If you start to get drunk, try the sundaeguk (sundae stew), a simple dish with great hangover-busting properties that's made with more pork head and small intestines than sundae.

Clique records

Clique records

This record shop, hidden in a back alley like most stores are in Euljiro, is unique in that it offers underground dance music by independent record labels from all around the world. Most of its LPs and cassette tapes are selected by three different DJs, creating a collection full of music from various genres, including house, techno, disco and new wave. Though itโ€™s only open on the weekends, you can purchase music via its online store or listen its hip music on SoundCloud.(soundcloud.com/cliquerecordseoul)

Twoffice

Twoffice

3 out of 5 stars

This cafรฉ-slash-design studio is more simple and laid back than glamorous. Take the stairs all the way up to the fifth floor to discover a cafรฉ interior devoid of flashy elements and where listening to dreamy music while looking out at Hunryeonwon Park through the window leaves you feeling strangely calm. Since everyone here was having Vienna coffee, I tried one myselfโ€”its soft, sweet cream was so tasty that I finished the whole cup in no time. They also display works by up-and-coming artists up on the rooftop.

Cosmos Wholesale

Cosmos Wholesale

Korean stationery stores stock for kids who've just been given their pocket money. Five friends, including an artist, a designer and an editor, own it. They sell odds and ends such as videos, toys, magazines, LPs and even old photos of actress Kim Hee-sun. There are so many products here that it'll take you forever to go through everything. Too bad they're only open Thursday through Sunday. You can use your credit card if you're paying 5,000 won or more.

200/20

200/20

This bookstore opened in a small corner of the old Seun Arcade, a building once on the brink of demolition. The name 200/20 refers to the storeโ€™s deposit and rent money: 2 million and 200,000 won. The shelves are full of independent publications, liberal arts books and novels. The owners collect books with different themes every year and hold various events including Eochomundap, a monthly fixture to which humanists are invited to share their viewsโ€”keep an eye on their Facebook page.

Manseon Hof

Manseon Hof

3 out of 5 stars

Euljiro's Nogari (dried pollack) Alley, with its dozen or so pubs, is one of Seoul's top attractions, becoming crammed with thirsty hordes every evening. The biggest pub of all is Manseon Hof, also known as โ€œOktoberfest in Koreaโ€ and purveyor of more beer than any establishment in the country. As soon as you get a table you'll be served draft beer and nogari without even having to order. Nogari only costs 1,000 won and with draft beers going for just 3,000 each, this is a very light night out for your wallet.

Coffee Hanyakbang

Coffee Hanyakbang

4 out of 5 stars

How did anyone fit a coffee shop in such a small alley? Hiding amongst the shabby buildings in Euljiro, this coffee shop is decorated like a dabang (Korean coffee house) from the Japanese colonial period. One small step through the door is effectively one giant leap back 90 years or so. The wooden floor creaks with every step, the counter is inlaid with mother-ofpearl and thereโ€™s even a hand coffee roaster. Make sure you try out their signature menu itemโ€”strong hand-drip filter coffee brewed by the barista with all the meticulousness of a pharmacist decocting herbal medicine.

Hotel Soosunhwa

Hotel Soosunhwa

3 out of 5 stars

First of all, this is not a hotel. Itโ€™s a cafรฉ that sells tea, beer, wine and more; a workroom for three designers, and an integrated cultural space that holds exhibitions and concerts. Louise Park, director of Ikseon-dong cafรฉ Sikmul, designed the interior by combining images conjured from two wordsโ€”the modern, Western nuances of โ€œhotelโ€ and the narcissus flower (soosunhwa), symbolizing the status of Euljiro as the classical center of Seoul. Just as the combination of these two words creates a unique atmosphere, the cafรฉ itself strikes an exquisite harmony between East and West. Floral-patterned lampshades, Asian flower paintings, mother-ofpearl tables and the cafรฉโ€™s ethereal ambience will have you reaching for your camera.

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CITY ENVY : Surf's up in Yang Yang

CITY ENVY : Surf's up in Yang Yang

Itโ€™s summer and surfโ€™s up. There are a number of surfing spots in Korea, like Songjeong Beach, but the hottest spot for surfing is Yang Yang county in Gangwon-do. Since it only takes three hours to get there from Seoul, many surfers head out to this beach during the week. Famous surfing spots in Yang Yang include Gisamun, Jukdo and Namae. Gisamun isย  a great spot for short boards because it often has waves that are strong but not too big. The largest number of surfย  shops are in Jukdo, and it's a great spot for beginners who are still learning to surf. Last but not least, Namae has strong and large waves and is packed with surfers. This summer, why not give surfing a try and glide through the wind and the waves?ย 

CITY ENVY : ์—ฌ๋ฆ„์—” ์„œํ•‘์ด์ง€!

CITY ENVY : ์—ฌ๋ฆ„์—” ์„œํ•‘์ด์ง€!

ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๋น ์ง€๋ฉด ์ ˆ๋Œ€ ํ—ค์–ด๋‚˜์˜ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋‹ค๋Š” ๋งˆ์„ฑ์˜ ์Šคํฌ์ธ  ์„œํ•‘! 3๋ฉด์ด ๋ฐ”๋‹ค๋กœ ๋‘˜๋Ÿฌ์‹ธ์—ฌ ์žˆ๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋‚˜๋ผ์—” ๋ถ€์‚ฐ ์†ก์ •, ์ œ์ฃผ๋„ ์ค‘๋ฌธ ๋“ฑ ๋งŽ์€ ์„œํ•‘ ์ŠคํŒŸ์ด ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํ™œ๋ฐœํžˆ ์„œํ•‘ ๋ฌธํ™”๊ฐ€ ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๋Š” ๊ณณ์€ ๊ฐ•์›๋„ ์–‘์–‘์ด๋‹ค. ์„œ์šธ์—์„œ 3์‹œ๊ฐ„๋ฐ–์— ๊ฑธ๋ฆฌ์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๋น„๊ต์  ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด ์ง€๋ฆฌ์  ์ด์  ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์ฃผ๋ง ํ‰์ผ ํ•  ๊ฒƒ ์—†์ด ๋งŽ์€ ์„œํผ๊ฐ€ ์ฐพ๋Š”๋‹ค. ํ•ด๋ณ€์„ ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์„œํ”„์ˆ์ด ์ฆ๋น„ํ•œ๋ฐ ์šฉํ’ˆ ๋Œ€์—ฌ๋Š” ๋ฌผ๋ก  ์†Œ์ •์˜ ๊ธˆ์•ก๋งŒ ๋‚ด๋ฉด ์–ธ์ œ๋“ ์ง€ ๊ต์œก์„ ๋ฐ› ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด ์ดˆ๋ณด์ž๋„ ์„œํ•‘์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์–‘์–‘ ์„œํ•‘ ์ŠคํŒŸ ์ค‘ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋งŽ์ด ์ฐพ๋Š” ๊ณณ์€ ๊ธฐ์‚ฌ๋ฌธ, ์ฃฝ๋„, ๋‚จ์• ๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ์‚ฌ๋ฌธ์€ ์ˆ๋ณด๋“œ๋ฅผ ํƒ€๊ธฐ์— ์ข‹์€, ํฌ์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ํž˜์ด ์ข‹์€ ํŒŒ๋„๊ฐ€ ์ž์ฃผ ๋“ค์–ด์˜ค๊ธฐ๋กœ ์œ ๋ช…ํ•˜๋‹ค. ์ฃฝ๋„๋Š” ๊ตญ๋‚ด์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋งŽ์€ ์„œํ”„์ˆ์ด ์œ„์น˜ํ•ด ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ์ฒ˜์Œ ์„œํ•‘์„ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๋Š”ย  ์ดˆ๋ณด์ž๋“ค์ด ์ž…๋ฌธํ•˜๊ธฐ์— ์ข‹๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ ๋‚จ์• ๋Š” ํž˜ ์ข‹๊ณ  ํฐ ํŒŒ๋„๊ฐ€ ๋“ค์–ด์™€ ์„œํผ๋“ค๋กœ ์ธ์‚ฐ์ธํ•ด๋ฅผ ์ด๋ฃฌ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„, ๋ฐ”๋žŒ๊ณผ ํŒŒ๋„๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€๋ฅด๋Š” ์„œํ•‘์€ ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ ์Šคํฌ์ธ ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์–ด์ค„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

CGV's seat pricing

CGV's seat pricing

If youโ€™re a moviegoer, youโ€™re likely already well aware of the new pricing system at CGV movie theaters, effective since March. Instead of the flat rate of 10,000 won, prices will now vary depending on the time and location of the screening. Economy zone tickets (seats in the detested front) are the cheapest at 9,000 won, while the standard is 10,000 won and prime zone tickets are 11,000 won. CGV argues that economy seats have now become 1,000 won cheaper and that customers can choose cheaper tickets if they so desire. However, the truth of the matter is that there are more prime zone seats than economy zone seats. This means that there are more higher-priced tickets than there are cheaper ones and that CGV ultimately makes a profit. We say, if youโ€™re going to charge higher prices, just be up front about it, and create a clearer, more efficient system. ย 

CGV ์ขŒ์„ ์ฐจ๋“ฑ์ œ

CGV ์ขŒ์„ ์ฐจ๋“ฑ์ œ

์˜ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋Ÿฌ CGV๋ฅผ ์ž์ฃผ ๊ฐ€๋Š” ํŽธ์ด๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ตœ๊ทผ์—” ๊ฐˆ ๋•Œ๋งˆ๋‹ค ๊ธฐ๋ถ„์ด ๋‚˜์˜๋‹ค. ์ง€๋‚œ 3์›”๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์‹œํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ขŒ์„ ์ฐจ๋“ฑ์ œ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฏธ ๋…ผ๋ž€์ด ๋๊ณ  ๊ณ„์† ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ค‘์ธ ๋ฌธ์ œ์ด๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•˜๋‹ค. ์ขŒ์„ ์œ„์น˜์™€ ์‹œ๊ฐ„๋Œ€์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์š”๊ธˆ์„ ๋‹ค๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๋†จ๋Š”๋ฐ, ๋ฌธ์ œ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ €๋ ดํ•œ ์ด์ฝ”๋…ธ๋ฏธ ์กด๊ณผ ์Šคํƒ ๋”๋“œ ์กด๋ณด๋‹ค ์ œ์ผ ๋น„์‹ผ ํ”„๋ผ์ž„ ์กด ์˜์—ญ์ด ๋งŽ์•„์ ธ, ์‹ค์งˆ์ ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ์š”๊ธˆ์ด ์ธ์ƒ๋œ ๊ฒƒ์ž„์„ ๋Š๋ผ๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ๋ฐ”๋€ ์ขŒ์„ ์ฐจ๋“ฑ์ œ๋กœ ํ•˜๋ฉด ์ฃผ๋ง ๊ธฐ์ค€, ์•ž์ชฝ ์ขŒ์„์ธ ์ด์ฝ”๋…ธ๋ฏธ ์กด์€ ์ด์ „๋ณด๋‹ค 1000์›์ด ์‹ผ 9000์›, ์Šคํƒ ๋”๋“œ ์กด์€ ๊ธฐ์กด๋Œ€๋กœ 1๋งŒ์›, ๋’ค์ชฝ ํ”„๋ผ์ž„ ์กด์€ 1๋งŒ1000์›์„ ๋ฐ›๋Š”๋‹ค. ์—๋””ํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ์ฐพ์€ CGV ์šฉ์‚ฐ ์•„์ด๋งฅ์Šค๊ด€์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์ด์ฝ”๋…ธ๋ฏธ๋Š” 65์„, ์Šคํƒ ๋”๋“œ 174์„, ํ”„๋ผ์ž„์ด 150์„์ด๋‹ค. ์ขŒ์„์ˆ˜๋กœ๋งŒ ๋ด๋„ ์Šคํƒ ๋”๋“œ์™€ ํ”„๋ผ์ž„ ์กด์ด ๋ณ„ ์ฐจ์ด๊ฐ€ ์—†๋‹ค. 1000์› ํ• ์ธ์ด ๋˜๋Š” ์ขŒ์„์€ 1000์› ๋น„์‹ผ ์ขŒ์„์— ๋น„ํ•ด ์ ˆ๋ฐ˜๋„ ๋ชป ๋ฏธ์นœ๋‹ค. ๊ฒŒ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์ด์ฝ”๋…ธ๋ฏธ๋‚˜ ์Šคํƒ ๋”๋“œ์„์€ ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ๋งค์ง„๋˜๋ฏ€๋กœ ๋น„์‹ผ ํ”„๋ผ์ž„์„์„ ์‚ด ์ˆ˜๋ฐ–์— ์—†๋Š” ํ™•๋ฅ ๋„ ๋†’์•„์กŒ๋‹ค. ํ”„๋ผ์ž„์„์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•ด์„œ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๊ฐ€ ๋” ์ข‹์•„์ง„ ๊ฒƒ๋„ ์—†๊ณ . ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋‹จ์ฒดํ˜‘์˜ํšŒ ๋ฌผ๊ฐ€๊ฐ์‹œ์„ผํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ 1์ฃผ์ผ๊ฐ„ ์„œ์šธ์‹œ๋‚ด CGV ์ƒ์˜๊ด€ 5๊ณณ์˜ ์ขŒ์„๋ณ„ ์˜ˆ์•ฝ ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ์กฐ์‚ฌํ–ˆ๋”๋‹ˆ ์ด์ฝ”๋…ธ๋ฏธ์„์€ 800๋ช…๋Œ€, ํ”„๋ผ์ž„์„์€ 1๋งŒ500๋ช…์— ๋‹ฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ˆ๋งค์œจ๋„ ์‹ผ ์ขŒ์„์€ ํ‰์ผ 1%, ์ฃผ๋ง 20%์ธ ๋ฐ ๋น„ํ•ด ๋น„์‹ผ ์ขŒ์„์€ ํ‰์ผ 20%, ์ฃผ๋ง 60%์— ๋‹ฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทน์žฅ์€ 1์ฃผ์ผ๊ฐ„ 900๋งŒ์›์ด ๋„˜๋Š” ์ˆ˜์ต์„ ์˜ฌ๋ ธ๊ณ , ์ขŒ์„๋‹น ํ‰๊ท  400์› ์ด์ƒ์˜ ์ธ์ƒ ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ฐ์‹œ์„ผํ„ฐ์˜ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋‹ค. CGV์ธก์ด ์‹ค์งˆ์ ์œผ๋กœ 100~200์› ์ •๋„ ์ธ์ƒ๋œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ ๋ฐํžŒย  ๊ฒƒ์— ๋น„ํ•ด ๋ฐฐ๊ฐ€ ๋„˜๋Š” ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์ด๋‹ค. ์ขŒ์„ ์ฐจ๋“ฑ์ œ๋Š” ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋„ ๋‚ณ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ํ™”๊ฐ€ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋ฉด ์ด์ฝ”๋…ธ๋ฏธ์„์— ์•‰์•„ ์žˆ๋˜ ๊ด€๋žŒ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ํ”„๋ผ์ž„์„์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋™ํ•˜๋Š” โ€˜๋ฉ”๋šœ๊ธฐ์กฑโ€™ ์ด ๋งŽ์•„์ง„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ์ผ๋ถ€ ๊ด€๋žŒ๊ฐ์€ ํ”„๋ผ์ž„์„๊ณผ ์ด์ฝ”๋…ธ๋ฏธ์„์„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์˜ˆ๋งคํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์˜ํ™” ์‹œ์ž‘ ์ง์ „์— ํ”„๋ผ์ž„์„์„ ์ทจ์†Œํ•˜๊ณ  ์ž๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋น„์–ด ์žˆ์„ ํ™•๋ฅ ์ด ํฐ ๊ทธ ์ž๋ฆฌ๋กœ ์˜ฎ๊ฒจ ์•‰๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋ˆ„๊ฐ€ ์ด๋“ค์„ ๋น„๋‚œํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋‹ค ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ฉ”๋šœ๊ธฐ์กฑ ์‹ฌ์ •์ธ ๊ฒƒ์„. ์ขŒ์„์ฐจ๋“ฑ์ œ๋Š” ์š”๊ธˆ ์ธ์ƒ์˜ ๊ผผ์ˆ˜์— ์ง€๋‚˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค. ๊ด€๋žŒ๊ฐ๋“ค์€ ์ขŒ์„ ์ฐจ๋“ฑ์ œ ์‚ฌ์ด์—์„œ โ€˜ํ˜ธ๊ฐฑ๋‹˜โ€™์ด ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค. โ€˜์„ ํƒ์˜ ํญ์ด ๋„“์–ด์ ธ ํ•ฉ๋ฆฌ์ โ€™์ด๋ผ๋Š” CGV ์ธก์˜ ์ž…์žฅ๊ณผ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ, ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ์ž์œ ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ๋‚ผ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ํšŒ์‚ฌ์›๋“ค์€ ๋„“์–ด์ง„ ์„ ํƒ์˜ ํญ์„ ๋Š๋‚„ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๊ณ , ๋น„์‹ผ ์ขŒ์„์„ ์‚ฌ์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š” ์„ ํƒ์„ ๊ฐ•์š”๋‹นํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ทธ๊ฒŒ ํ™”๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ ์ด๋‹ค. ย  ย  ย  ย