Korea On Screen: The Real Places Behind It on Colors Korea

Busan K-Pop Locations: One Village, Three Different Shoots

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0900

Busan K-pop locations cluster around one neighborhood more than any other in the city: Gamcheon Culture Village, the hillside of color-blocked houses above Gamcheon Port. Three separate music projects, a decade apart, used the same steep alleys — and three months ago, the city hosted something even bigger a few kilometers away, when BTS reunited on a Busan stadium stage for the first time in almost four years.

K-Pop Locations in Jeju: The Same Rock as Dae Jang Geum

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0900

K-Pop locations in Jeju tend to sit on ground that was already famous. The clearest case is a lone sea stack in Seogwipo: BTS shot an album jacket there in the mid-2010s, decades after it had already become one of Korean television’s most recognizable backdrops. Jeju’s coast didn’t start working with K-pop — K-pop just found a coast that had been doing this since before it existed.

K-Pop Music Video Locations: Gangnam Style Isn't in Gangnam

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0900

K-pop music video locations don’t always match the song. The clearest case is also the most famous K-pop video ever made: PSY’s “Gangnam Style” has almost no Gangnam in it. Thirteen years on, the horse-riding hall, the bathhouse, and the parking garage he actually used are still standing — none of them anywhere near the district the song is named after.

KPop Demon Hunters: The Real Seoul Behind It

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0900

KPop Demon Hunters is animated, not live-action — so, strictly, nothing in it has a “filming location.” What it has instead is a Seoul built almost entirely from real, identifiable landmarks, redrawn rather than filmed. Seoul’s own tourism board has leaned into this directly, building an official trail around what it calls the film’s 소울스팟 (“soul spots”) — real places that inspired the animated ones. None of them need the show’s popularity to stay worth a visit.

Gangneung Drama Filming Locations: The Real Spots

Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0900

Gangneung drama filming locations cluster more thickly here than in any other Korean coastal city, and they span three decades rather than one hit show. Goblin’s most-quoted scene, The Glory’s finale, a BTS album cover, and the drama that started Korea’s whole tradition of shooting on this coast in 1995 are all within a short drive of each other — and not all of what visitors photograph is the original.

Seoul Drama Filming Locations: Itaewon Class and CLOY

Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0900

Seoul drama filming locations for Itaewon Class and Crash Landing on You don’t cluster the way Gangneung’s do. One show’s spots sit blocks apart in a single Yongsan-gu neighborhood; the other’s two confirmed Seoul scenes sit on opposite sides of the city, and both of them are Seoul standing in for somewhere else — Pyongyang, not itself.