BTS: the Seoul route

The restaurant where the members ate through their trainee years, before any of it. The walls are covered in notes left by fans who came from everywhere.

Getting there · 학동역 (7호선)

The neighbourhood park where the trainees sat and talked. It is a short walk from Yoojung Sikdang.

Getting there · 논현역 (7호선·신분당선)

A cafe made out of the flat the members shared. The rooms are still laid out as they were, and the walls carry notes fans have left.

Getting there · 학동역 (7호선) 4번 출구에서 걸어서 7분서울 강남구 논현로119길 16

A street lined with GangnamDol figures, one for each K-pop group. BTS have one of them.

Getting there · 압구정로데오역 (수인분당선)

사진: 서울관광 아카이브 (KOGL 제1유형)

Where they performed 'IDOL' in hanbok for The Tonight Show in 2020. The courtyard in front of Geunjeongjeon is the part that was on screen.

Getting there · 경복궁역 (3호선)서울 종로구 사직로 161

The building BIGHIT MUSIC sits in. There is no way inside; fans come for the front of it and the cafes in the lanes behind.

Getting there · 신용산역 (4호선)

사진: Kimhs5400 (CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons)

Where the tenth anniversary FESTA was held on 17 June 2023. The park went purple that day and there were fireworks at night.

Getting there · 여의나루역 (5호선)