
Park Won-soon
Lawyer and former Mayor of SeoulWikipedia
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Sep 23, 2026
Jongno 3-ga: The Insider’s Guide to the World’s Coolest Neighborhood
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12:42Joe McPhersonHOST
Anyway, it was solidified 2018.
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12:45Joe McPhersonHOST
Then-Mayor Park Won-Soon designated Ikseon-dong as an official Hanok preservation area, so we don't have to worry about them getting bulldozed and turning into high-rises.
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12:54Joe McPhersonHOST
But a lot of these cafes and restaurants were closing around 10 p.m., 9 p.m., and so young people were trying to find more stuff to do, and that's where this Pojang Macha Street, the Soju Tents.
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13:05Joe McPhersonHOST
The Soju Tents have always existed, but the Soju Tents used to be everywhere.
19 MINS LATER
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31:52Joe McPhersonHOST
It feels like it's Korea from the 1980s.
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31:55Joe McPhersonHOST
You might actually see some classic movie posters there.
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31:58Joe McPhersonHOST
Now, the reason that's there is because way back, the former mayor Park Won-soon was trying to make that into a little bit of a nostalgia alley.
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32:06Joe McPhersonHOST
And the current mayor hates him, so he's been systematically destroying everything that guy built up.