Ikseon-dong
Old hanok turned into cafés and small restaurants, packed into narrow lanes
A fuller guide to this place, built from 6 sources, is written in Traditional Chinese.
Being there
Go in the afternoon for coffee and dessert. The lanes are narrow and busy at weekends.
The story
The hanok here are small urban houses built about a hundred years ago, smaller and denser than Bukchon's. Young owners have turned them into cafés and restaurants and kept the roofs and timber beams.
