K-drama filming locations in Seoul

Why visit Baekbin

My Mister (나의 아저씨, tvN, 2018) follows Park Dong-hoon (Lee Sun-kyun), a senior supervisor at a company, and Lee Ji-an (IU), his younger teammate. The two live in the same neighborhood, and the Korea Herald’s drama tour notes that they often run into each other at Baekbin Railroad Crossing on their commute to work. The crossing was heavily featured in the series, which is why VisitSeoul tags it as a My Mister filming location and why it has become the show’s best-known pilgrimage spot.

Baekbin is one of the few railroad crossings still operating in Seoul, and that rarity is part of the draw. Trains cut through an ordinary street lined with old-fashioned shops, low-rise buildings and houses — a scene the Herald describes as a uniquely retro pocket of central Seoul, all the more striking against the skyscrapers nearby. After dark the mood deepens: red traffic lights, train headlamps and LED signs light the narrow alleys, and the crossing bell rings as the barriers come down. Locals call the road “Ttaeng-Ttaeng Street” after that bell. An LG Uplus report on 2021 foreign-visitor data also listed the crossing among the places foreign visitors often looked up, an early sign of how far the drama’s Yongsan had travelled. Nearest KTX station: Yongsan Station itself — VisitKorea calls it the starting point of the Honam high-speed line — so the crossing works easily as a Seoul day trip, and as a short add-on if you arrive in Seoul by KTX.

The crossing

What to see: the crossing itself. The Herald notes that even the smallest details catch fans’ eyes, from the crossbuck to the barriers and the alarm bell attached to a mast. As VisitKorea puts it, trains cutting through a street are rare in Seoul nowadays, so simply watching one pass — bell ringing, barriers down, headlamps in the dusk — is the main event. The narrow alleys around it, lined with old shops and low houses, are where the drama’s neighborhood feel lives.

Safety first. This is an active rail crossing: VisitSeoul notes hundreds of trains a day. Stay behind the barriers and on public sidewalks, and never step onto the tracks for photos — even when the barriers are up. Never cross once the alarm sounds and the barriers come down. Korea JoongAng Daily reported Korail’s warning that treating crossings as photo spots can be fatal: inspectors filmed people crossing despite alarms, and a couple taking wedding photos on the Baekbin tracks. “Taking photos on the tracks is extremely dangerous,” Korail said.

The walk around it. From the crossing, walk north through the old streets toward Sookmyung Women’s University Station and Cheongpa-dong. Fans place some neighborhood scenes in these alleys; no official source names specific spots, so they have no map pins here. Search the walk on Kakao Map or Naver Map, and keep to the streets: many buildings here are homes. Walk slowly here. The Herald notes that even the smallest details catch fans’ eyes — the crossbuck, the barriers, the alarm bell on its mast — and the same attention pays off in the alleys: old-fashioned shops, low-rise buildings and houses that the Herald calls a uniquely retro pocket of central Seoul. Because many of these buildings are homes, keep to the streets and keep noise down; the walk is a look, not a tour of anyone’s doorstep.

How to get there. Subway Lines 1 / Gyeongui–Jungang, Yongsan Station, Exit 1, about 715 m to the crossing (VisitSeoul). The Herald also describes a five-to-six-minute walk from HDC I-Park Mall. Allow 20–40 minutes at the crossing, longer if you wait for trains.

If you only have an hour

Baekbin rewards a short, unhurried visit more than a long one. Allow 20–40 minutes at the crossing itself — long enough for the barriers to come down and a train to pass — and use the rest of the hour for the walk north through the old streets toward Sookmyung Women’s University Station and Cheongpa-dong, where the drama’s neighborhood feel lives in ordinary shopfronts and low houses. Come at dusk if you can: the Herald’s after-dark description — red lights, headlamps, LED signs, the bell — is the version of the crossing most visitors remember. If you are building a wider day around it, the companion My Mister: Seoul and Ganghwa Island guide covers the show’s other Seoul stop, Seosomun Apartment, while Ganghwa Island’s Jeongsusa temple deserves a separate outing of its own. For a different retro-Seoul walk, our Reply 1988 guide covers another old-neighborhood drama. Keep to public sidewalks throughout: the crossing is a working railway, not a set, and the barriers and bells are safety equipment first. See also our Seoul hub.

Getting there (transit)

Fares and schedules change. Prefer official pages on your travel day.

Incheon Airport (ICN) → Seoul

Seoul Metropolitan Government (accessed Sep 23, 2026): AREX All-Stop ~59–66 min to Seoul Station; Express ~43–51 min. Confirm on AREX.

Seoul Metro / rail → Baekbin

Seoul Metro English site (accessed Sep 23, 2026): check current card fares on your travel day. Maps: seoulmetro.co.kr/en.

VisitSeoul transportation note:

• Subway Lines 1 / Gyeongui–Jungang, Yongsan Station, Exit 1, about 715 m to the crossing.

Korea Herald also describes a five-to-six-minute walk from HDC I-Park Mall.

Plan your trip

More My Mister: this guide covers Baekbin only. For the show’s other places — the curved Seosomun Apartment in Seoul and Jeongsusa temple on Ganghwa Island, plus fan-spotted Naksan Park — see our My Mister: Seoul and Ganghwa Island guide. For the wider Seoul set, see our Seoul K-drama filming locations hub.

Same-day Yongsan: the crossing sits in a busy part of Yongsan-gu. The Herald places Yongnidan-gil, a cluster of streets between Samgakji Station and Sinyongsan Station known for Instagrammable photos, nearby; the district also holds Itaewon, the National Museum of Korea and the War Memorial of Korea. For a non-drama breather, the Herald suggests the I-Park Mall’s colorful outdoor plaza or RM Forest No. 2 at the nearby Han River Park. None of these are filming locations — they are simply close by.

Eat nearby: the Herald notes visitors can see office workers having “hoesik,” or after-work get-togethers, in nearby restaurants just like the characters in My Mister. It names Childonga for Jeju black pork cuts and JipJip for beef tartare bibimbap as places to eat nearby. These restaurants are not filming locations.

More retro Seoul: if Baekbin’s old-neighborhood mood is what you came for, see our Reply 1988 guide for another retro-Seoul drama walk.

How we checked

Places named by two independent sources (official or press) are confirmed. Places named by one source, or by sources that trace back to the same organization, are reported. Baekbin Railroad Crossing is confirmed: VisitSeoul (Seoul’s official tourism site) and The Korea Herald (independent press) both name it as a primary My Mister pilgrimage spot, and an LG Uplus report on foreign-visitor data, covered by both the Herald and the Inquirer, independently lists it among the places foreign visitors looked up.

Sources used: VisitSeoul’s Baekbin page, The Korea Herald’s August 2024 drama tour, VisitKorea’s “Once-in-a-Lifetime Photos” feature, Korea JoongAng Daily’s Korail safety report, Seoul Metropolitan Government’s airport-access page, Seoul Metro fare pages and AREX for transit.

Photos: no CC-licensed photo of this exact crossing was found on Wikimedia Commons, so the guide carries no photo rather than an image we cannot license or confirm. We list places without photos rather than using images we cannot license or confirm.

Last checked: Oct 17, 2026 for spot status and guide enrichment. We re-check spot status periodically and update when places close, change, or gain new sources.

Sources

All sources for this guide

Accessed Oct 17, 2026 (Asia/Seoul) unless noted.

1. VisitSeoul — Baekbin Railroad Crossing
2. Korea Herald — Feel ‘My Mister’ mood in Yongsan (Aug 3, 2024)
3. VisitKorea — A Place for the Once-in-a-Lifetime Photos
4. Korea JoongAng Daily — Treating railway crossings as photo spots can lead to dangerous, possibly fatal, accidents, Korail says
5. Seoul city — ICN to Seoul
6. Seoul Metro fares — http://www.seoulmetro.co.kr/en/page.do?menuIdx=348 (accessed Sep 23, 2026)
7. Seoul Metro English home — http://www.seoulmetro.co.kr/en/index.do (accessed Sep 23, 2026)
8. AREX — https://www.arex.or.kr/ (accessed Sep 23, 2026)
9. VisitKorea — Yongsan Station (accessed Oct 26, 2026)
10. VisitKorea — Train travel in Korea (accessed Oct 26, 2026)

Why visit Gamgodang-gil

Our Beloved Summer (그 해 우리는) ran on SBS from Dec 6, 2021 to Jan 25, 2022 — 16 episodes on Monday and Tuesday nights — and streams on Netflix. It follows Choi Ung (Choi Woo-shik) and Kook Yeon-soo (Kim Da-mi), former high-school sweethearts forced back in front of the cameras when the documentary they filmed as teenagers goes viral. The show was Studio N’s first original series, and it found its biggest audience internationally through streaming.

The Gamgodang-gil stop is the show’s most walkable Seoul location: a single quiet lane in Bukchon where the last-episode flashback — the drunk walk, with Yeon-soo carrying a drunk Ung on her back — was filmed. VisitKorea’s Gamgodang Street page and its Our Beloved Summer filming tour both name the lane, and VisitSeoul’s newsletter independently confirms it as an Our Beloved Summer filming street. That is why this stop is marked confirmed: two publishers, not one, tie the drama to this alley.

The lane itself is worth the walk even without the drama. It runs about 440 metres behind the Seoul Museum of Craft Art, from Poongmoon Girls’ High School to Jeongdok Library, lined with cafes, galleries and craft shops between tiled walls and stone walls. VisitSeoul traces the name Gamgodang to King Yeongjo, who named the spot recalling that Queen Inhyeon’s residence once stood here. The same newsletter notes that Goblin and True Beauty also filmed on this lane — one street, three dramas.

Visiting the alley

Start at Line 3 Anguk, Exit 1, and walk to the Seoul Museum of Craft Art; Gamgodang-gil runs behind it. The middle stretch, Yunboseon-gil, is the part VisitKorea names for the piggyback walk — look for the narrow uphill lane between tiled walls rather than the wider road. There is no ticket and no set route: stroll the full 440 metres, then loop back through the surrounding Bukchon lanes.

Bukchon is a lived-in residential neighborhood, not a theme park. People live in the hanoks along these lanes, so keep voices low, do not photograph homes or residents, and stay on the public street. The lane is a working part of the neighborhood — the cafes and galleries are real businesses, and the craft markets VisitKorea mentions open along the road. Combine the walk with the Seoul Museum of Craft Art and the wider Bukchon lanes, or with our Goblin Seoul guide, which covers the same street from that drama’s angle.

The name on the middle of the lane

The middle stretch of the lane has its own name — Yunboseon-gil — after former president Yun Bo-seon, who lived his final years in Anguk-dong. It is also the stretch VisitKorea names for the piggyback walk: the narrow uphill lane between tiled walls and stone walls, rather than the wider road.

Bukchon rules: what applies here, and what does not

Bukchon’s much-reported tourist curfew does not name this lane. Seoul’s official notice restricts tourist visits between 17:00 and 10:00, with a KRW 100,000 fine, only in the Red Zone — Bukchon-ro 11-gil, the photo alley in Gahoe-dong. The neighbouring orange and yellow zones are monitored but have no curfew, and chartered buses are restricted on Bukchon-ro between Anguk Station and Samcheong Park. Gamgodang-gil itself has no gate, ticket or curfew — but it is a street people live on, so the quiet-visit rules still apply: keep voices low, do not photograph homes or residents, and follow the signs posted on the day, since zone maps can change.

Nearby, beyond the lane’s two ends

At the lane’s northern end, Jeongdok Library has stood on the former Gyeonggi High School site since January 1977 — a working public library with its own Seoul Education Museum, best treated as a quiet endpoint rather than a sight to enter. Behind the lane’s start, the Seoul Museum of Craft Art is free to enter and closed on Mondays; it stands on the former Andongbyeol Palace site and has no parking of its own, which is one more reason to arrive by subway. In the wider Bukchon lanes, Baek In-je House (16 Bukchon-ro 7-gil, near Anguk Exit 2) is a free museum in a 1913 modern hanok — corridor-linked quarters, glass windows and red brick — open 09:00–18:00 except Mondays; note that room interiors are reached via guided tours, not self-guided entry. South of the lane, the lawns of Songhyeon Green Plaza, redeveloped from a long-vacant former embassy-housing site in 2022, give a shortcut toward Gyeongbokgung and Insadong.

How we checked this guide

Each claim in this guide is tied to a named source listed below. Stops marked confirmed have at least two independent sources: Gamgodang-gil is confirmed by VisitKorea (its drama tour page and its Gamgodang Street place page) and by VisitSeoul, Seoul city’s tourism newsletter. We do not use drama stills — the photos are location photos under KOGL Type 1. We do not invent transit, hours, or exact camera positions; where a detail is unverified, it is listed under “left out” in the guide data rather than stated as fact. If a source changes or a claim is corrected, this page is updated and the change is recorded.

Getting there (transit)

Fares and schedules change. Prefer official pages on your travel day.

Incheon Airport (ICN) → Seoul

Seoul Metropolitan Government (accessed Sep 23, 2026): AREX All-Stop ~59–66 min to Seoul Station; Express ~43–51 min. Confirm on AREX.

Seoul Metro → Gamgodang-gil

Seoul Metro English fare page (accessed Sep 23, 2026): adult card basic 1,550 KRW / 10 km. Maps: seoulmetro.co.kr/en.

VisitKorea lists Anguk Station (Line 3), Exit 1 for the Bukchon Gamgodang-gil area address (Anguk-dong, Jongno-gu).

The craft museum has no parking lot of its own (SeMoCA official site), so the subway advice stands: Line 3, Anguk, Exit 1, then the lane behind the museum. No bus route is listed here — none was confirmed from a usable source.

Sources

All sources for this guide

Accessed Sep 23, 2026 (Asia/Seoul) unless noted. New sources accessed Oct 18, 2026.

1. VisitKorea — “Our Beloved Summer” Filming Location Tour

2. Seoul city — ICN to Seoul

3. Seoul Metro fares — http://www.seoulmetro.co.kr/en/page.do?menuIdx=348

4. AREX — https://www.arex.or.kr/

5. VisitKorea — Bukchon Hanok Village Gamgodang Street

6. VisitSeoul — go!Seoul newsletter: Gamgodang-gil

7. Seoul Metropolitan Government — Bukchon Hanok Village

8. Wikipedia — Our Beloved Summer (air dates, episode count, network)

9. Wikipedia — Yun Bo-seon (middle stretch of the lane named after former president Yun Bo-seon)

10. Seoul Metropolitan Government — Notice on restrictions for tourist visits to Bukchon special management area (Red Zone = Bukchon-ro 11-gil only)

11. Travel Trade Journal — Seoul’s historic Bukchon Hanok Village to restrict tourists to curb overtourism (orange/yellow zones; chartered-bus restriction)

12. Koursea — Bukchon Hanok Village resident privacy etiquette guide (zone maps are the final word on the day)

13. Seoul Museum of Craft Art — official site (https://craftmuseum.seoul.go.kr/eng/main) (no parking lot of its own; free admission)

14. The Soul of Seoul — Guide: Seoul Museum of Craft Art (free admission, closed Mondays)

15. Korea Trip Tips — Jeongdok Library (opened January 1977, former Gyeonggi High School site)

16. Jeongdok Library — official site (http://jdlib.go.kr/)

17. Seoul Museum of History — Baek In-je House (1913 modern hanok, museum since 2015)

18. The Seoul Guide — Baek In-je House Museum (free, 09:00–18:00, closed Mondays)

19. Nowhitz — Baek In-je House courtyards

20. Korea Trip Tips — Songhyeon Green Plaza (redeveloped 2022 from former embassy-housing site)

Why visit the Ewha hospital from The Trauma Code

The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call arrived on Netflix on Jan 24, 2025, as an eight-episode season. It follows Baek Kang-hyuk (Ju Ji-hoon), a trauma surgeon shaped by years of combat medicine, who takes over a struggling trauma unit at Hankuk National University Hospital and tries to turn it into a top-tier trauma center. The series is based on the Naver webtoon Trauma Center: Golden Hour (2019–22), and it landed fast: Korea JoongAng Daily notes it topped Netflix’s Top 10 Non-English Shows list for the week of January 27 to February 2. Ju Ji-hoon later won Best Actor at the 61st Baeksang Arts Awards for the role. Nearest KTX station: Seoul Station — VisitKorea lists it among the stations KTX departs from — a subway ride away with a transfer, and since the stop sits inside Seoul it works as a Seoul day trip.

Most of the show happens inside a fictional hospital, which is why this stop matters. JoongAng reports that several Hankuk National University Hospital scenes were filmed at Ewha Womans University Medical Center in Magok — predominantly the exterior shots, plus some interiors. The elaborate surgery scenes were purpose-built sets, not a real operating ward, so the real building is the show’s public face: the modern exterior that says “top hospital” on screen. JoongAng also notes the same center has backed other medical dramas, including tvN’s Hospital Playlist.

Set expectations before you go. This is a working hospital, not a set tour, and the visit is an exterior-only stop of 20–40 minutes. It pairs well with nearby Seoul Botanic Park, which JoongAng names as a nature-friendly spot close to the center, and JoongAng also names Haneul Park in Mapo District as another green stop near the hospital. This guide is part of our Seoul filming-location hub, which collects every Seoul place on the site by district.

Visiting the hospital exterior

Head for 260 Gonghang-daero in Gangseo-gu — Gonghang-daero means Airport Road, a clue to how far west this corner of Seoul sits. The building to look for is the modern Ewha Womans University Seoul Hospital, opened in February 2019 with 1,014 beds. JoongAng describes a spacious lobby with a modern layout; the lobby is a working hospital lobby, so look, don’t linger, and treat it as hospital property rather than a set.

The rules of the visit are simple. Stay in public exterior areas. Do not enter clinical floors, do not photograph patients or staff, and do not block entrances or emergency routes. Keep noise down: people inside are sick, working, or waiting on news. Do not expect a drama tour, a set, or signage about the show — there is no public Trauma Code display here. One thing not to expect here is the show’s helipad: the hospital does have a rooftop heliport, per its own site, but JoongAng credits Bestian Hospital in Osong — not Ewha — for the helipad scenes and the drama’s poster shot.

Read the building itself as the show’s shorthand for a top hospital: a modern exterior, opened in February 2019 with 1,014 beds, and — per JoongAng — a spacious, modern lobby. That is the public face the drama borrows; the wards and the surgery are sets, not rooms you can visit. JoongAng also notes the same center has backed other medical dramas, including tvN’s Hospital Playlist — a reminder that this building’s screen career is longer than this one show.

The easiest mistake is going to the wrong Ewha. Ewha runs two hospitals, and the university’s main campus is a third place. This stop is the Seoul Hospital in Magok, Gangseo-gu. It is not Mokdong Hospital in Yangcheon-gu, and it is not the Ewha campus in Sinchon, Seodaemun-gu, which JoongAng notes sits nearly an hour away by public transport. Check the address — 260 Gonghang-daero, Gangseo-gu — before you set out.

Pairing the stop with a Magok morning

Because the hospital visit itself is short — 20–40 minutes, exterior only — it pairs best with something else in the west of the city. JoongAng names Seoul Botanic Park, close to the center, as a nature-friendly stop nearby, and the same district holds Gimpo Airport, so the hospital also works as a first or last stop on a Gimpo-routed trip. Keep the hospital portion to daytime and to public exterior areas, as above, and build the rest of the day around the park or the airport rather than around the hospital. Before you set out, double-check the address — 260 Gonghang-daero, Gangseo-gu — because the wrong-Ewha mistake is the easiest one to make, and the Sinchon campus sits nearly an hour away by public transport per JoongAng. For more Seoul filming places, see our Seoul hub, and for two very different Seoul stories, our Parasite guide and our Single in Seoul guide cover other corners of the city.

How we checked this guide

This stop is reported, not confirmed: a single press source, Korea JoongAng Daily (published Feb 14, 2025, updated February 18), names this hospital for the show. Our confirmed label needs two independent sources, and a second source has not confirmed this stop yet. Hospital facts — opened February 2019, 1,014 beds, the Balsan Station connection — come from the hospital’s own site and Korea Biomedical Review. We use no drama stills, and we do not invent transit, hours, or fees. This guide currently has no photo: the two photos previously shown here depicted other Ewha buildings (the Sinchon campus ECC and Mokdong Hospital), so they were removed. A verified photo of the Magok hospital will be added when one is available under a compatible licence.

Getting there (transit)

Fares and schedules change. Prefer official pages on your travel day.

Incheon Airport (ICN) → Seoul

Seoul Metropolitan Government (accessed Sep 23, 2026): AREX All-Stop ~59–66 min to Seoul Station; Express ~43–51 min. Confirm on AREX.

Gimpo Airport (GMP) → Magok

Gimpo Airport sits in the same district, Gangseo-gu, so it is the closer airport for this stop. From Gimpo, take Seoul Metro Line 5 toward the Magok / Balsan area and finish with the map links on the place card.

Seoul Metro → Magok / Gangseo

Seoul Metro English site (accessed Sep 23, 2026): check current card fares on your travel day. Maps: seoulmetro.co.kr/en.

Line 5 serves the hospital: the hospital’s own site says it connects directly to Balsan Station, and Magok Station is the neighboring stop on the same line. Plan the last leg with the Kakao Map and Naver Map links on each place card. Head for 260 Gonghang-daero, Gangseo-gu.

Sources

All sources for this guide

Accessed Sep 23, 2026 (Asia/Seoul) unless noted. New sources accessed Oct 18, 2026.

1. Korea JoongAng Daily — 5 filming locations from Netflix’s ‘The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call’ (published Feb 14, 2025; modified Feb 18, 2025)
2. Ewha Womans University Seoul Hospital (official) — Medical Center greeting (opened 2019, 1,014 beds, Magok, roots in 1887; Balsan Station Line 5 connection)
3. Korea Biomedical Review — New hospital of Ewha Womans University starts service in February
4. Seoul city — ICN to Seoul
5. Seoul Metro fares — http://www.seoulmetro.co.kr/en/page.do?menuIdx=348
6. AREX — https://www.arex.or.kr/
7. Wikipedia — The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call (8 episodes, Jan 24, 2025 release, webtoon basis)
8. Zapzee — Winners of 2025 Baeksang Arts Awards (Ju Ji-hoon, Best Actor, 61st Baeksang Arts Awards)
9. Korea Airports Corporation — Gimpo aerodrome data (Gimpo Airport address in Gangseo-gu)
10. VisitKorea — Train travel in Korea (accessed Oct 26, 2026)