Goblin's Seoul in One Day: 4 Verified Spots

Goblin is a fantasy about a 939-year-old immortal, his bride, a grim reaper, and a woman named Sunny — but its Seoul half is strikingly ordinary in the best way. No set was built for it. The drama borrowed a quiet uphill lane, a European-style mansion beside a Joseon palace, a stone-wall walk in the city centre, and a neighbourhood footbridge on Line 2, and let the story do the rest. That is why the whole day works as a real walk: every stop is a public place you can reach by subway, and every stop is free.

All four stops below come from the site’s Goblin in Seoul guide. Three are Confirmed, meaning two or more independent sources name them as filming locations. The fourth, the Deoksugung stone-wall path, is Reported — one tourism itinerary lists it, and no second source has confirmed it yet — and it is labelled as such wherever it appears. Nothing here adds a new filming claim, and no episode number is given unless the guide itself states it. Hours and access details come from the guide; check the official listing on your travel day, since both change.

The order is the point. Start in Anguk in the morning, when the palace quarter is quietest, cross to the City Hall area in the afternoon, and finish with the Line 2 bridge as a separate hop, not a rushed add-on.

Morning in Anguk: the lane, then the mansion

1. Gamgodang-gil

Begin on Line 3 at Anguk, Exit 1, about a three-minute walk to Gamgodang-gil, a lane in Jongno-gu at Yulgok-ro 3-gil 4. The guide presents it as a Seoul meeting spot for the Goblin and his love, on the strength of a VisitSeoul Goblin course listing backed by Yonhap reporting from 2017 and the Jongno-gu tourism page. It is a public street, free at any hour, and the visit takes roughly fifteen to thirty minutes.

Do not expect a set piece. The lane’s appeal is that it reads as an ordinary Seoul street the drama borrowed: an uphill walk in the palace-hanok quarter, with hanok roofs and palace walls as the backdrop. Take it slowly, and do not confuse it with Samcheong-dong’s stone-wall road, a different lane that online posts sometimes mix it up with. The guide keeps the two separate, and so should your map search — type the full lane name and address, not just “stone-wall road.”

출처: 한국관광공사, 공공누리 제1유형 (photo via the Goblin in Seoul guide).

2. Unhyeongung Yanggwan

From the lane, the next stop is on foot, not another subway ride. Take Line 3 Anguk again, Exit 4, about 100 metres to Unhyeongung, the palace complex at 464 Samil-daero. The European-style mansion beside it, the Yanggwan, is the home Kim Shin shares with the Grim Reaper in the drama. Three press sources from 2017 — Dong-A Ilbo, Hankook Ilbo, and Korea Times — name it, which is why it carries Confirmed status.

The history behind the fantasy is worth the visit on its own. Unhyeongung was the private residence of Heungseon Daewongun, father of Emperor Gojong, and the young Gojong lived here before taking the throne. The palace grounds are free to enter and take about thirty to sixty minutes; the guide lists them as open daily 09:00–19:00, last entry 18:30, closed on Mondays, with a time-limited evening opening on selected days from 1 September to 29 November 2026. Check the VisitSeoul listing on your travel day rather than treating that evening window as permanent.

One rule matters more than any photo angle: the mansion itself is exterior only. It sits on a university campus, and a Newsis report from May 2026 confirms viewing from outside the Unhyeongung wall. If you cannot see the mansion clearly, visit the free palace grounds next door instead of trying to force campus entry. No interior description or room tour is published in the guide, because no qualifying source supports casual entry, and this article adds none.

Photo: Daderot / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) (via the Goblin in Seoul guide).

Afternoon in the city centre: the wall walk

3. Deoksugung stone-wall path — Reported, not Confirmed

Cross to the City Hall and Jeong-dong area for the third stop, and read its label carefully. The Deoksugung stone-wall path is Reported, not Confirmed: one tourism itinerary lists several scenes along it, but no second qualifying source has confirmed the Goblin link, so neither the guide nor this article names specific scenes, characters, or episodes for it. Treat the drama connection as reported and the walk as worth doing on its own merits.

Those merits are solid. The path is a lit, landscaped walk along the Deoksugung Palace wall, noted for its autumn ginkgo trees, close to the Seoul Museum of Art and the Seoul Museum of History. VisitKorea lists it at 24 Sejong-daero 19-gil, Jung-gu, open 24 hours all year, with no parking available. No official page names a station or exit for the path itself, so check the map before you go rather than assuming a City Hall exit drops you at the right point. It costs nothing, and it pairs naturally with the palace quarter you have already walked — same city, different century of wall.

출처: 서울특별시 중구, 공공누리 제1유형 (photo via the Goblin in Seoul guide).

A practical note for the whole Anguk-to-City-Hall stretch: the nearby Bukchon Hanok Village is a lived-in residential neighbourhood, not a filming location on this route, and its Bukchon-ro 11-gil Red Zone restricts tourist access to 10:00–17:00 daily, with fines possible outside those hours. Plan any Bukchon-area wandering for daytime, and keep voices and cameras respectful of residents.

The Line 2 hop: a different couple’s bridge

4. Yongdap Station pedestrian bridge

The last stop belongs to a different pair, and it deserves its own trip. Take Line 2 to Yongdap Station, where the pedestrian bridge at 159 Salgoji-gil, Seongdong-gu, is right at the station. VisitKorea and Herald Corp name it as the place where Sunny and the Grim Reaper meet, used for several notable scenes, and Seongdong-gu district has put up official filming signage there. It is free to cross at any hour and takes about fifteen to thirty minutes.

This is deliberately not part of the Anguk morning. The guide frames it as its own Line 2 hop, and the article keeps it that way: pair it with Seongsu-dong cafes or a Han River walk rather than sprinting back across the city. The bridge is an everyday piece of neighbourhood infrastructure, and that is the charm — a commuter crossing the drama turned into a meeting place, still doing its original job.

Practical notes

Base yourself near Anguk on Line 3 if you want the morning cluster on foot, and use Naver Map or Kakao Map for the last leg of each stop; the subway exits above get you close, and the final walks are short. All four stops are free, but the palace grounds and the Red Zone hours are the two clocks to watch: Unhyeongung closed on Mondays, Bukchon-area access daytime only. Fares change, so check the Seoul Metro English fare page on your travel day rather than relying on any figure printed here.

If you have a second day, the Goblin story continues outside Seoul: the seaside first-meeting scenes belong to Jumunjin in Gangneung, covered in the site’s separate Jumunjin guide, and the yellow-bookstore scenes belong to Hanmi Bookstore in Incheon, not to Seongsu as some posts claim. Neither is an add-on to this walk; each is its own day trip, and each is verified to the same standard as the stops above.

For the full stop-by-stop detail, access notes, and source list, see the Goblin in Seoul guide. For the seaside half of the story, see the Goblin at Jumunjin guide.

Sources

This feature draws only on the site’s Goblin in Seoul guide and the sources that guide cites for these stops. Gamgodang-gil: Yonhap (2017) and Jongno-gu tourism, with the VisitSeoul Goblin course as a historical citation (its old URL returned 404 when the guide re-checked it on Oct 25, 2026). Unhyeongung Yanggwan: Dong-A Ilbo, Hankook Ilbo, and Korea Times (all 2017), plus Newsis (May 2026) for exterior-only access and VisitSeoul for palace hours. Deoksugung stone-wall path: a single tourism itinerary, hence Reported; VisitKorea for the path’s address, 24-hour opening, and no-parking note only, not as a Goblin source. Yongdap bridge: VisitKorea and Herald Corp, plus Seongdong-gu district filming signage. No new filming claim is made here; episode and scene details are as stated by those sources in the guide.