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27 places
Blue Bottle Coffee Seongsu
Café · Seongsu · Ttukseom Stn Exit 1 · 2 min walk
Blue Bottle's first Korean branch, set in a converted red-brick industrial building.
About 1 hour
₩
Cafe Onion Seongsu
Café · Seongsu · Seongsu Stn Exit 2 · 2 min walk
The bakery cafe that started Seongsu's factory-cafe trend, inside a raw 1970s building.
About 1 hour
₩
Common Ground
Shopping · Seongsu · Konkuk Univ. Stn Exit 6 · 3 min walk
A mall built from 200 blue shipping containers, with Korean brands and a food market yard.
1–2 hours
₩₩
Daesung Galbi
Food · Seongsu · Ttukseom Stn · 5 min walk
A 30-plus-year pork galbi shop grilling over charcoal, now moved near Ttukseom Station.
About 1 hour
₩₩
Gyeoul Nageune (retro Western diner)
Food · Seongsu · Konkuk Univ. Stn · 8 min walk
A 40-year student hangout with graffiti walls and old-school Korean-style pork cutlet.
About 1 hour
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Jojo Kalguksu (Seongsu)
Food · Seongsu · Seongsu Stn · 1 min walk
Clam knife-cut noodle soup a minute from Seongsu Station, with a clean seafood broth.
About 1 hour
₩
Lowkey Coffee (Seongsu)
Café · Seongsu · Seongsu Stn Exit 4 · 6 min walk
A dim, quiet red-brick specialty cafe with a small sign that coffee people seek out.
About 1 hour
₩
Maehwa Banjeom (lamb skewers)
Food · Seongsu · Konkuk Univ. Stn · 5 min walk
Grill-your-own lamb skewers on Kondae's famous skewer street, mild on the spices.
About 1 hour
₩₩
Musinsa Store Seongsu @Daelim Changgo
Shopping · Seongsu · Seongsu Stn · 6 min walk
About 100 Korean fashion brands and a giant sneaker wall inside a 1970s rice-mill warehouse.
1–2 hours
₩₩
Nanpo (Seongsu)
Food · Seongsu · Seoul Forest Stn · 5 min walk
Modern Korean home cooking near Seoul Forest; weekend waits can top an hour.
About 1 hour
₩₩
Neungdong Minari (Seongsu)
Food · Seongsu · Seongsu Stn Exit 4 · 5 min walk
Clear beef soup piled with fresh water celery, open from breakfast to midnight.
About 1 hour
₩₩
Olive Young N Seongsu
Shopping · Seongsu · Seongsu Stn Exit 4 · 2 min walk
Korea's biggest Olive Young: five floors of K-beauty to test and buy.
1–2 hours
₩₩
Seongsu Jokbal
Food · Seongsu · Seongsu Stn Exit 3 · 3 min walk
A one-dish neighborhood institution Koreans rank among Seoul's best braised pig's trotters.
About 1 hour
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Seoul Forest
Sight · Seongsu · Seoul Forest Stn Exit 3 · 5 min walk
A huge free park of lawns and tree-lined paths, right next to Seongsu’s café streets.
1–2 hours
Free
Somunnan Seongsu Gamjatang
Food · Seongsu · Seongsu Stn Exit 4 · 5 min walk
A 24-hour pork-bone stew house with a line at almost any hour, even late at night.
About 1 hour
₩₩
Songhwa Shanxi Knife-Cut Noodles
Food · Seongsu · Konkuk Univ. Stn · 7 min walk
Thick hand-shaved Shanxi noodles in Kondae's Chinatown lamb-skewer strip, cheap and filling.
About 1 hour
₩
Seoul Children's Grand Park
Sight · Seongsu · Children's Grand Park Stn Exit 1 · 2 min walk
A big free park with a small zoo and botanical garden, popular with Seoul families.
1–2 hours
Free
Geum Geum (Seongsu)
Food · Seongsu · Seongsu Stn · 8 min walk
A calm Korean noodle spot on the quieter south side of Seongsu.
About 1 hour
₩₩
Jayeondo Salt Bread (Seongsu)
Café · Seongsu · Seongsu Stn Exit 4 · 5 min walk
The salt bread Koreans queue for on Yeonmujang-gil; eat it warm right away.
About 1 hour
₩
Mesh Coffee
Café · Seongsu · Ttukseom Stn · 5 min walk
The original Seoul Forest specialty roaster: tiny, almost no seats, serious coffee.
About 1 hour
₩
Motz Coffee (Kondae)
Café · Seongsu · Konkuk Univ. Stn · 8 min walk
A small, well-rated coffee bar in the Hwayang-dong lanes away from Kondae's crowds.
About 1 hour
₩
Scène
Café · Seongsu · Seongsu Stn Exit 4 · 5 min walk
A dessert cafe known for pretty fruit cakes, a short walk from the main strip.
About 1 hour
₩
Standard Bread Seongsu
Café · Seongsu · Seongsu Stn · 7 min walk
A roomy bakery cafe in the quieter southern lanes, good for breakfast.
About 1 hour
₩
Seongsu-dong
Shopping · Seongsu · Seongsu Stn Exit 4
Shoe workshops, red-brick factory cafés and pop-up stores that change every week, with Seoul Forest next door.
1–2 hours
₩₩
Tamburins Flagship Store Seongsu
Shopping · Seongsu · Seongsu Stn Exit 4 · 6 min walk
The Korean fragrance brand's concrete-and-garden flagship, as much art space as shop.
1–2 hours
₩₩₩
Ttukseom Hangang Park
Sight · Seongsu · Jayang Stn · 2 min walk
Riverside lawns for a picnic, bike ride or sunset over the Han River.
1–2 hours
Free
Point of View Seongsu
Shopping · Seongsu · Seongsu Stn Exit 4 · 7 min walk
Three floors of beautiful stationery and desk objects.
1–2 hours
₩₩
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