Pins matching place:Gangnam-gu

Jungsik Yim opened Jungsik in Seoul in 2009 with an argument to make: that Korean cooking belonged in fine dining on its own terms rather than as a set of borrowed French techniques. The restaurant went on to hold two Michelin stars in Seoul and opened a New York sibling that earned three, making it one of the few Korean names to carry that weight abroad.

Samseong is the in-fill station between Seoul Station and Suseo on the GTX-A express line, sitting inside the Yeongdongdaero transfer complex in Gangnam. In May 2026 inspectors found 50 of the 80 support columns on the fifth basement level had one layer of reinforcement where the design called for two, and Hyundai Engineering and Construction is covering the roughly 3 billion won repair.