Bar in Jongno: New Seoul & More - 10 Local Picks

Past an arcade and a door that feels hidden, the bar spreads over the third to fifth floors, looking out across the til…

Behind what looks like a white marble wall in the basement of the Four Seasons Hotel Seoul, a hidden door opens onto th…

The bossam kimchi, made Gaeseong-style and aged on site, goes with boiled pork in the house Jongno bossam. Kimchi-jjim…

Every beer on the list is named after the streets outside: Jongno Lager, Ikseon IPA, Tapgol Porter. They have been brew…

Self-serve taps let drinkers pour small measures of different craft beers themselves, and a sampler flight does the sam…

Oven-baked in the bar itself, the special quarter pizza splits one pie into four flavors. Fried plates run from 88 frie…

Four abandoned hanok (traditional Korean houses) were joined together in 2014 by photographer Louis Park to make this s…

Down a flight of stairs in Gwancheol-dong, a long, dimly lit counter puts the spotlight on the bartender's station and…

Down a flight of stairs off a Daehangno side street, low ceilings, candlelight and dim lamps recreate a monastery clois…

Chef Shin Jeong-yong ran this izakaya in Gugi-dong for about 10 years, closed the old space, spent a stretch running a…