Itaewon-dong

Hyochang Park is also near a really pretty neighborhood.

It's like near Hannam-dong and Itaewon.

So yeah, that is some places that you could visit.

I was actually at Hyochang Gowon recently.

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How do I say this lightly? We're really picky and we move on really fast from trends.

You know, Halal Guys is gone from the Itaewon location.

You know how many times Subway came in and then left and came in and then it's stuck.

But what's the sticky factor is something that brands like Chipotle would want to get it right in the first time.

You know, not many people probably remember, but back in 1997, when I started college here in Korea, I remember there was a Taco Bell across from the entrance of my university in Sinchon.

And it never really caught on with Korean diners at the time because it was gone after a few months.

But the first real wave of Mexican food, I think, came years later around 2011 in Itaewon.

So Korean-Americans open Korean-inspired Tex-Mex restaurants combining tacos with Korean flavors like galbi and kimchi.

And it was a lot of the Korean, my students, that talking to me who were starting to bring out things about anti-American seminar, about them, like he's like, the students were telling me, you know, all these nations came to help us, but only Americans stayed.

Everyone else left, but the Americans, like, and there's a part of Seoul called Itaewon, that you just don't go unless you're an American soldier.

Really? Yeah.

Wow.