Royal Culture Festival (궁중문화축전)

908.3M 2024-07-17

161 Sajik-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul
+82-1522-2295

The Royal Culture festival is held at the five Royal Palaces and Jongmyo Shrine. The festival first began in 2014 and provides visitors with first-hand knowledge of these important cultural heritages through unique performances, exhibitions, experiences and programs. The festival expanded in 2021 to be hosted twice a year, in spring and in fall.

853 (팔오삼)

908.3M 2024-03-15

16 Insadong 12-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul
+82-70-8832-0853

853 is a pork barbecue restaurant located in a renovated hanokin Insa-dong, offering various cuts of pork such as shoulder, belly, blade-end fatback, and pork neck. They use thick cuts of domestically sourced pork and grill them to perfection, ensuring they are juicy and flavorful. Customers can enjoy dipping their meat in one of four sauces: Himalayan rock salt, mustard seeds and wasabi, salted cutlassfish intestines, and barley mixed paste. Their flying fish roe riceball mixed with pickled radish salad, burdock root, flying fish roe, perilla leaves, and mayonnaise pairs perfectly with the meat.

Vegetarian Restaurant Osegyehyang (채식요리전문점 오세계향)

909.9M 2024-03-18

14-5 Insadong 12-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul
+82-2-735-7171

Osegyehyang is a vegetarian restaurant located in Insa-dong. It specializes in vegetarian cuisine, offering a variety of dishes including noodles, traditional Korean dishes, and specialty items. Some of its popular dishes include maesil tangsuchae (vegan deep-fried pork with sweet and sour sauce), pyogobeoseotmari (rolled shiitake mushrooms), vegan yangnyeom chicken (vegan seasoned fried chicken), tteokbokki, jjajangmyeon (black bean sauce noodles), jjamppong (spicy seafood noodle soup), vegan steak, and bulgui ttukbaegi (vegan bulgogi), all prepared without meat but still delicious.

Isae - Insa Branch (No. 2) [Tax Refund Shop] (이새 인사2호)

910.1M 2024-04-18

30-1, Insadong-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul

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Tong-In Store (통인가게)

911.2M 2020-05-07

32, Insadong-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul
+82-2-733-4867

Tong-In Store is the oldest traditional crafts shopping center in Korea. It is home to over 100 shops that sell ancient and contemporary traditional crafts, as well as galleries that display craft collections by emerging artists.

Myth Jokbal Myeongdong (미쓰족발명동)

913.5M 2024-10-15

21, Myeongdong 3-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul
+82-2-3789-8799

This restaurant specializes in Jokbal (Braised pigs' feet) and Bossam (Napa wraps with pork), both of which are served with vegetable wraps and salad. Jokbal (Braised pigs’ feet) is prepared by braising pigs' feet in spiced stock, a process that removes excess fat, enhances the flavor, and gives the meat a chewier texture. Each order of Jokbal (Braised pigs' feet) is accompanied by Kongnamulkimchiguk (Bean sprout and kimchi soup), to which Kalguksumyeon (Noodles) are added. For those who find the dishes too spicy, the restaurant offers a self-serve Jumeokbap (Riceball), featuring laver flakes, pickled radish, and mayonnaise to cool the palate.

Ilbeonji Yang Daechang Myeongdong Branch (일번지양대창 명동)

913.5M 2024-03-15

2F, 33 Myeongdong 9-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul
+82-2-773-3150

Ilbeonji Yang Daechang is a specialty restaurant for grilled beef or pork small intestines located on Myeongdong Street. Its main menu features various intestines of beef or pork, including large and small intestines, grilled in the Korean barbecue style. Additionally, they offer options like grilled beef and pork galbi, as well as small intestine hot pot.

Haemong (해몽)

913.0M 2021-03-19

15-5, Insadong-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul
+82-2-735-4229

A barbecue specialty restaurant located in Insa-dong, Seoul. The most famous menu is grilled pork belly. A Korean BBQ restaurant.

PALSAIK Samgyeopsal Myeongdong(팔색삼겹살 명동)

913.5M 2020-10-30

2F, 21, Myeongdong, 3-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul
+82-2-3789-8292

It provides eight different flavors of pork belly. The most famous menu is grilled pork belly. A barbecue specialty restaurant located in Myeong-dong, Seoul.

Minsokchon (민속촌)

913.5M 2021-08-06

33, Myeongdong, 9-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul
+82-2-779-8371

A place where you can try various Korean dishes. This restaurant's signature menu is grilled strip loin. This Korean dishes restaurant is located in Jung-gu, Seoul.

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