Why visit Seoul and Ganghwa for My Mister
My Mister (나의 아저씨) aired on tvN from March to May 2018, in 16 episodes. The late Lee Sun-kyun plays Park Dong-hoon, a senior manager at a company, and IU plays Lee Ji-an, who works on his team (The Korea Herald). It was written by Park Hae-young and directed by Kim Won-seok. It streams on Netflix. It is a drama about ordinary working life in Seoul — company corridors, neighborhood streets, a family home, a temple visit — and its filming locations are ordinary places made meaningful rather than landmarks: a curved 1970s apartment block, a park on the old city wall, a road bridge over the Han River, and a small temple on Ganghwa Island.
That ordinariness is the reason to visit, and the reason to set expectations. There is no set to tour and no single must-see sight. What the places offer is the Seoul the drama is actually about: a lived-in apartment building you look at from the street, a hillside park above the old city, a river crossing, and a working temple a half-day out of town. The best-known place in the drama, the Baekbin Railroad Crossing, is on our Seoul page rather than here — see the link below. This page covers the places beyond the crossing: one confirmed, one reported, and two fan-spotted.
About this page
My Mister (나의 아저씨) aired on tvN from March to May 2018, in 16 episodes. The late Lee Sun-kyun plays Park Dong-hoon, a senior manager at a company, and IU plays Lee Ji-an, who works on his team (The Korea Herald). It was written by Park Hae-young and directed by Kim Won-seok. It streams on Netflix.
This page covers places beyond the Baekbin crossing; for the crossing itself, see the Baekbin Railroad Crossing on our Seoul page.
More of Seoul
Seosomun Apartment (서소문아파트) is the long, curved block that Dong-hoon talks about in the drama. Seoul City’s own media and the press both name it, so it is confirmed. It stands in Migeun-dong, Seodaemun-gu, finished in 1972 and described in the press as Korea’s first mixed-use apartment building still standing. It follows the curve of a stream covered over beneath it — the detail Dong-hoon explains in the drama, and the reason the building bends. In 2021 the area was named a candidate for a public redevelopment project, according to the press, so it may not stand for long. It is a lived-in building: look at the exterior from the street only, keep your voice down, and do not photograph residents or enter the building. The ground-floor shops are ordinary businesses. This entry has no map pin, because it is people’s home, not a sight.
Fans also place scenes at Naksan Park (낙산공원) on the old city wall and on Hangang Bridge (한강대교) over the Han River. No official or press source names them yet, so they are fan-spotted. Naksan Park is a public park along the old city wall on Naksan hill in Ihwa-dong, Jongno-gu, free to walk — the easiest stop in this guide and the best one for a view over the old city. Hangang Bridge is a road bridge over the Han River with sidewalks, between Yongsan-gu and Dongjak-gu; walk it as a river crossing, not as a marked spot, and this entry has no map pin.
Incheon & beyond
On Ganghwa Island, west of Seoul, Jeongsusa Temple (정수사) is where Dong-hoon visits his friend Gyeom-deok at the temple, according to Bulgyo Sinmun, a Buddhist newspaper. One published source names it, so it is reported. It is a small working Buddhist temple on the slopes of Manisan in Ganghwa-gun, Incheon, and its main hall is a nationally designated heritage building. Bulgyo Sinmun says the scenes where Dong-hoon visits Gyeom-deok (Park Hae-joon), now a monk, were filmed on the wooden porch of the temple’s main hall. Plan it as a half-day trip from Seoul: search the route to Jeongsusa (Ganghwa) on Kakao Map or Naver Map. Visit quietly, keep out of areas marked for monks, and do not photograph people at prayer.
Where was “Hugye Station”?
Hugye, the neighborhood where Dong-hoon and Ji-an live, is fictional. Fans have matched its subway station to Exit 4 of Sinjeongnegeori Station in Yangcheon-gu, Seoul. No official source confirms it, so we list it here as a fan match only, without a map pin.
Places we could not confirm
- Jeong-hee’s bar: fans place it in Dong-gu, Incheon, but the address comes from a fan blog only. We are holding it.
- Restaurants from the drama (for example Kojubang in Goyang): named by fans only, and we could not confirm they are still open.
- Bongpo Harbor breakwater, Goseong: named on fan lists only.
- Sam-an E&C’s office: fans match it to a company building. Offices are not places to visit, so it is not listed.
Plan your trip
Base yourself near Yongsan Station — close to Baekbin and the Yongsan walk — or near Sookmyung Women’s Univ. Station, with quieter streets north of Yongsan. Both are in the stay section above. See Seosomun Apartment from the street, walk Naksan Park for the old city wall, and cross Hangang Bridge on foot as three separate Seoul stops rather than one route. Keep Jeongsusa as its own half-day: Ganghwa Island, west of Seoul, with the temple visit and the return trip taking up the day.
Combine with nearby guides. Start with the Baekbin Railroad Crossing on our Seoul page, the best-known My Mister place. For more Seoul filming locations in the old city, see our Goblin in Seoul guide. For a Seoul neighborhood drama built around ordinary streets, see our Reply 1988 guide.
How we checked
A spot is confirmed when two independent sources name it as a filming location; it is reported when only one source names it so far; it is fan-spotted when only fan sources connect it to the drama. Seosomun Apartment is confirmed: Seoul City’s media and Kukto Maeil both name it. Jeongsusa Temple is reported: Bulgyo Sinmun alone names it so far. Naksan Park and Hangang Bridge are fan-spotted: only a fan location list names them. Hugye is fictional; the Sinjeongnegeori Station match is a fan match only, listed without a pin. Company buildings, funeral halls, schools, apartment interiors and private homes are left out. Drama background comes from tvN and Netflix, listed below.
Photos: The hero image and all four spots carry a checked CC-licensed photo of the real place, credited on each card. No drama stills are used anywhere in this guide.
Sources
All sources for this guide
Accessed Sep 29, 2026 (Asia/Seoul).
- Seoul City (내 손안에 서울) — Seoul’s old apartments
- Kukto Maeil — “My Mister” apartment named a redevelopment candidate
- Energy Economic News — Korea’s first mixed-use apartment (Aug 4, 2021)
- Bulgyo Sinmun — Ganghwa’s Jeongsusa in “My Mister”
- tvN — My Mister official page
- Netflix — My Mister
- Fan location list — ififollowme.blogspot.com
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