Tongin Market and Yi Sang's House

Seochon's traditional market, known for coin-token lunchboxes, meets a literary retreat associated with poet Yi Sang's childhood home.

Place information

Area

Jongno-gu

Category

Neighborhood streets

Address

18, Jahamun-ro 7-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul

Visit tip

The second-floor rooftop terrace at Yi Sang's House offers a quiet coffee break facing Seochon's hanok roofs and Inwangsan.

Nearby sights

• Yi Sang's Former Home Site

  A photography stop with the poet's manuscripts, books and a rooftop terrace behind an iron gate.

• Tongin Market Coin Lunchbox Alley

  Exchange money for traditional tokens and choose fried rice cakes, pancakes and snacks for a market lunchbox.

• Daeo Bookstore

  A 70-year-old wooden hanok used-book shop, known as an IU album-cover location.