Bangsan-dong

Gwangjang Market, previously Dongdaemun Market, is a traditional street market in Jongno-gu, Seoul, South Korea. The market is one of the oldest and largest traditional markets in South Korea, with more than 5000 shops and 20,000 employees in an area of 42,000 square metres (450,000 square feet). Approximately 65,000 people visit the market each day.

Jongno 5(o)-ga Station is a station on the Seoul Subway Line 1. It is located underneath Jongno, a major street in downtown Seoul.

Woo Lae Oak (Korean: 우래옥; Hanja: 又來屋; RR: Uraeok; lit. place to come back to) is a historic Pyongyang naengmyeon restaurant in Jung District, Seoul, South Korea. It is the oldest active Pyongyang naengmyeon restaurant in Seoul. The restaurant is listed on the Michelin Guide as a Bib Gourmand restaurant. The restaurant had a predecessor called Myeongwolgwan (명월관) in Pyongyang, North Korea. That restaurant's owner, Jang Won-il (장원일), moved to Seoul and opened Seobukgwan (서북관) in 1946 on the street Euljiro. During the Korean War, he fled for safety, and returned and changed the restaurant's name to Woo Lae Oak. By 2024, Jang's twin granddaughters were running the business. The restaurant reportedly has a reputation of being pricy, especially for naengmyeon, but popular and among the finest naengmyeon offered in Seoul. It reportedly has a longtime loyal fanbase that consistently visits. The restaurant had other branches in Daechi-dong and in Washington, D.C. in the United States, but both those branches were closed by 2024. It also had a Beverly Hills, California location that opened in 1993 but closed in 2012, as well as a SoHo, Manhattan branch that closed in 2011. In 2017, a rebranded Woo Lae Oak entitled The Woo was opened in SoHo, Manhattan.

Bangsan Market is a traditional market located in the Jugyo-dong neighborhood of Jung-gu, Seoul, South Korea. The market is famous for its pressed wrapping paper and includes more than 550 stores. The name of the market comes from the location's former condition during the Joseon Dynasty. At that time the area was not well maintained, and therefore became infamous for its bad smell. People began calling this place Bangsan, bang being Korean for fragrant.According to the Seoul Metropolitan Government, Bangsan Market has been designated a tourist destination since 2011. The government decided to keep the feel of a natural traditional market rather than modernize it.

Euljiro 4(sa)-ga Station is a station on the Seoul Subway Line 2 and Seoul Subway Line 5.

Hullyeonwon Park (Korean: 훈련원공원; Hanja: 訓鍊院公園) is a public park in Jung District, Seoul, South Korea. It was established on June 30, 1997, and has an area of 1.67346 ha (4.1352 acres). The park is named for the Hullyeonwon: the Joseon-era government ministry that oversaw military training.

Seun Sangga is a shopping area located between Jongno 3-ga and Toegyero 3-ga, Jongno-gu, Seoul. It was built in 1966, in what The Hankyoreh described in an editorial as "a symbol of the indiscriminate redevelopment that occurred during the dictatorship years". In the 1970s, it became known for its pornography vendors; however, in the late 1990s, business declined due to the rise of internet pornography.

Cheonggyecheon (Hangul: 청계천, Korean pronunciation: [t͡ɕʰʌ̹ŋ.gje̞.t͡ɕʰʌ̹ːn]) is a 10.9-kilometre-long (6.8 mi) modern public recreation space in downtown Seoul, South Korea. The massive urban renewal project is on the site of a stream that flowed before the rapid post-war economic development caused it to be covered by transportation infrastructure. The $900 million project initially attracted much public criticism, however, since its opening in 2005, it has become popular among residents and tourists.

Taishōkan (Japanese: 大正館, Korean: 대정관; RR: Daejeonggwan; MR: Taejŏnggwan) was a movie theater in Keijō (Seoul), Korea, Empire of Japan. It operated between 1912 and 1935. It was located at Sakuraicho 1-chōme (櫻井町1丁目; now 26 Inhyeon-dong 1-ga). In 1914, the building was renamed Dai-ichi Taishōkan (第一大正館) after the building's owner acquired a second building that they named Dai-ni Taishōkan.

Central Asia Street (Korean: 중앙아시아거리) is the nickname for an area in Gwanghui-dong, Jung District, Seoul, South Korea. It is so named because of the relatively high density of Central Asia-themed businesses in the area. In addition to its population of foreigners of non-Korean ethnicity, the area also has a notable population of Koryo-saram; ethnic Koreans from the former Soviet Union. The area reportedly formerly went by the name Little Moscow. Cyrllic, a script used for many Central Asian and Slavic languages, can be widely seen in the area. The ground level of the street has a number of restaurants and bars that specialize in Central Asian and Russian food and drinks, including kebabs and vodka. Along the main entrance to the street is a 10-story building known as "Mongolian Town". In addition to stores and restaurants, many of the establishments cater to the needs of the locals, such as banks, hair salons, and job agencies.The area is near the Dongdaemun History & Culture Park station and the park the station is named after.

Daehangno (Hangul:대학로 Hanja:大學路, lit. "college street") is a neighborhood in Seoul north of the Han River within Jongno-gu and Seodaemun-gu. Formerly known as Sunggyobang (Hangul:숭교방 Hanja:崇敎坊), meaning "high respect for teaching", its current name was designated when the 1.1 km six-lane road from Hyehwa-dong (혜화동) rotary to Ihwadong (이화동 梨花洞) crossroad was designated as a "street of culture" on May 5, 1985.

Dansungsa, established in 1907, was the first movie theatre in Korea. It is located in Jongno 3-ga, Seoul. Korea Loyal Flight became the theatre's first ever premiere in 1919. Chunsa Na Woon-gyu's Korean folk movie, Arirang, followed, premiering in the theatre in 1926. Chunhyanjeon became the theatre's third premier in 1935.In 1963, the South Korean government declared October 27, the same day when Korea Loyal Flight premiered at Dansungsa, to be the Korea Film Day. The declaration celebrated both the beginning of Korean film industry as well as the fact that Dansungsa, along with Woomikwan and Chosum Movie Theatre, the only theatre showing Korean movies during the colonial rule.It has reopened in 2005 as a modern multiplex with seven screens. Dansungsa is directly accessible from Jongno 3-ga Station of Seoul Subway lines one, three and five.