Daehakro Theater District

The Daehangno Good Performance Information Center sits near Marronnier Park, the focal point of a district dense with more than one hundred theaters. You can identify the center by its proximity to the park’s open grounds, which were…

Hakrim Dabang is a coffee house marked by a narrow, creaky wooden staircase leading to its entrance on the second floor. Opened in nineteen fifty-six, it stands as the oldest active coffee house in Seoul. The name itself comes from the…

Batanggol Sogeukjang, located in the Dongsung-dong neighborhood of Seoul, is a small theater space deeply rooted in the history of Korean performance culture. While the name Batanggol has also been associated with art museum programming,…

The Arko Arts Theater is a prominent red-brick building standing at the edge of Marronnier Park, distinguished by its textured, rugged exterior designed by the architect Kim Swoo-geun. Opened on April first, nineteen eighty-one, it was…

Marronnier Park is a public space in the Dongsung-dong neighborhood of Seoul, easily recognized by the dense rows of horse-chestnut trees that provide its name and its shade. The French word for this tree, marronnier, was adopted to honor…

Ihwa Mural Village is distinguished by the steep, narrow alleyways and staircases that weave through a dense collection of small houses on the slopes of Naksan Mountain. These buildings are often covered in colorful, hand-painted murals…

Naksan Park is defined by the stone ribbon of the ancient Seoul Fortress Wall that traces its ridge. Rising just over one hundred meters, the mountain takes its name from the Korean words for camel and mountain because its undulating shape…