Fly High Butterfly Seoul Walk: 11 Fan-Spotted Spots

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Fly High Butterfly (날아올라라 나비; the English title is our translation) was a JTBC Saturday–Sunday drama that aired from Sep 19, 2026 to Oct 18, 2026, ending with episode 10 (JTBC; The Fact; Sports Kyunghyang; Money Today; bntnews). It is written by Park Yeon-seon (Sports Kyunghyang; The Fact) and follows hair designers and interns at a salon that shares the show’s Korean name (Gukje News; The Fact). Press reports say filming finished in 2021 and the broadcast was then postponed (The Fact), so some places may have changed since filming. The 16-episode production was re-edited to 10 episodes for the domestic broadcast (Topstarnews; Wikitree).

Every place above is fan-spotted: Korean fan researchers matched it to scenes, but no official or press source has named it yet. We say only that each place appears in the drama. We could not find any press report that names where the main salon set is.

For shops, cafés and restaurants we don’t list hours or prices; check their official pages.

Why visit these places

Fly High Butterfly is a neighborhood story — hair designers and interns at a salon that shares the show’s Korean name — and its fan-spotted locations are neighborhood places too. Five of the eleven sit in Mapo-gu, in the Mangwon, Hapjeong and Seongmisan area, and the rest are small local businesses and one park scattered across Sinchon, Yongsan, Hoegi and Geomdan in Incheon. That is exactly why this guide works as a trip: you are not ticking off monuments, you are walking real Seoul neighborhoods and eating where locals eat.

The food alone makes a day of it. The list includes a gimbap and snack restaurant, a bakery café, a cook-at-your-table tteokbokki restaurant, a pork barbecue restaurant and an eel restaurant — five working places where you can sit down and eat. Add a stationery shop, a small park in the Sinchon area, a working hair salon in Mangwon and an indoor climbing gym in Incheon, and you have a full, low-key Seoul day that never feels like a tour.

One honest caveat: every place here is fan-spotted. Korean fan researchers matched each place to scenes, but no official or press source has named any of them yet, including the main salon set. Press reports say filming finished in 2021 and the broadcast was then postponed, so some places may have changed since filming. Check each business’s official listing before you go, and treat the drama connection as plausible but unconfirmed.

Visiting the spots

Mapo: Mangwon, Hapjeong and Seongmisan

These five stops sit in the same district, so they fit one Mapo afternoon. Check each route on Naver Map (English UI).

• Overmount (Mangwon) — a working hair salon on World Cup-ro 16-gil in Mangwon-dong. It is a business, not a sightseeing spot: visit as a customer if you want a cut, and be considerate of other customers. The fan list names Mangwon Station (Line 6) as the nearest station, but that is not verified against an official page.
• Cheongukine Bunsik — a gimbap and snack restaurant on Donggyo-ro 27-gil, Mapo-gu. A classic bunsik stop: quick, cheap, and very local. Check its official listing for hours before you go.
• Kurinoki Bakery — a bakery café on Donggyo-ro 12an-gil, Mapo-gu. A good pause between the salon and the snack stops. Check its official listing for hours before you go.
• Paper Library by grape lab — a stationery shop on Tojeong-ro 3-gil, Mapo-gu. The fan list names Hapjeong Station (Lines 2 and 6) as the nearest station, but that is not verified against an official page. Check its official listing for hours before you go.
• Gyeongui Line Book Street — a public book street on Wowusan-ro 35-gil, Mapo-gu, with small book booths along a former rail line.

Sinchon

• Changcheon Culture Park — a small public park in Changcheon-dong, Seodaemun-gu, in the Sinchon area. A breather between meals and a look at a residential neighborhood most visitors skip. Search the route on Naver Map (English UI).

Yongsan and Dongdaemun

• Ssangdaepo Sogeumgui — a pork barbecue restaurant on Cheongpa-ro, Yongsan-gu. The fan list names Sookmyung Women’s University Station (Line 4) as the nearest station, but that is not verified against an official page. Check its official listing for hours before you go.
• Modurang Jeukseok Tteokbokki — a cook-at-your-table tteokbokki restaurant on Hoegi-ro 23ga-gil, Dongdaemun-gu. Jeukseok tteokbokki is cooked at your table, so go hungry and go with friends. Check its official listing for hours before you go.
• Ilmi Jangeo — an eel restaurant on Huam-ro 57-gil in Huam-dong, Yongsan-gu. Check its official listing for hours before you go.
• Bondongjip — a place on Noryangjin-ro 32-gil, Dongjak-gu. Shared by fans; check the official listing before you go.

Beyond Seoul: Geomdan, Incheon

• Discovery Climbing Climb Square ICN — an indoor climbing gym on Wanjeong-ro in Geomdan, Incheon. The fan list names Majeon Station (Incheon Line 2) as the nearest station, but that is not verified against an official page. Check its official listing for hours and visitor rules before you go.

Plan your trip

Start in Mapo: the five Mapo stops make a natural afternoon, and Sinchon is close by. The Yongsan and Dongdaemun restaurants work as dinner stops on their own evenings, and the Incheon climbing gym is a separate half-day trip. Do not try to chain all eleven places into one day. For shops, cafés and restaurants we do not list hours or prices; check their official pages. For a ready-made Seoul itinerary, see our 1-day Seoul route.

Combine with nearby guides. For more Seoul filming locations, see our Single in Seoul guide, our Parasite in Seoul guide, and our Itaewon Class in Noksapyeong guide. For Incheon, see our My Mister in Seoul and Incheon guide.

How we checked

A spot is confirmed when two independent sources name it as a filming location; it is reported when the sources trace back to a single origin; it is fan-spotted when only fan sources connect it to the drama. Every place in this guide is fan-spotted: the lead list comes from Korean fan location research (ys-dl.tistory.com), and Naver News searches found no official or press source naming any place or the main salon set. We say only that each place appears in the drama, and we do not claim a specific scene for any place. Where a card names a subway station, it comes from the fan list and is not verified against an official page. Homes, convenience stores, streets, bus stops and other private or low-value places are left out or mentioned only in passing, as are places the fan list marks as closed or rebuilt. Spot status was last checked on the dates shown on each card; we re-verify periodically and update when places close, change, or gain new sources.

Photos: None of the eleven spots carries its own photo yet. The hero image is Mangwon Hangang Park in Mapo (KOGL Type 1), a location photo of the neighborhood, not a drama still. We add a photo to a spot only when we have a verified CC-licensed photo of that exact place.

Sources

All sources for this guide

Accessed Sep 28, 2026 (Asia/Seoul) unless noted.

1. Gukje News — JTBC Saturday–Sunday drama, first broadcast Sep 19, 2026, set in a hair salon
2. JTBC (official) — Episode 1 replay: broadcast Sep 19, 2026 (Sat) 22:40
3. The Fact — JTBC Saturday–Sunday drama from Sep 19, 2026; filming finished in 2021; writer Park Yeon-seon (Aug 27, 2026)
4. Sports Kyunghyang — JTBC Saturday–Sunday drama, writer Park Yeon-seon; episode 3 aired Sep 26, 2026 (Sep 27, 2026)
5. Fan location research (ys-dl.tistory.com) — Lead list, 19 places
6. Money Today — Episode 10 is the finale, airing Oct 18, 2026 (Oct 18, 2026, accessed Oct 24, 2026)
7. bntnews — Series ended Oct 18, 2026, ratings in the 1% range (Oct 19, 2026, accessed Oct 24, 2026)