Reply 1988 | Daehak-ro — The Bowl Bo-ra Ordered After the March

Hyehwa Station Exit 4 still dumps you into the same crush of theater posters and late tables. Daehak-ro did not wait for a drama to become a student street. Reply 1988 only had to sit down.

After the demonstration scenes, Bo-ra comes here. The bowl in front of her is kalguksu from a house that Visit Seoul still lists at 13 Changgyeonggung-ro 35-gil, a short walk from the exit. The restaurant opened in the early 2000s and kept the low tables and the bone broth. The street outside kept the habit of students who have somewhere they are supposed to be and one more hour they will not give back.

Stand under the horse-chestnut trees of Marronnier Park and the theaters are already lit. The drama needed a place where a law-student sister could be tired in public without the alley watching. This block still does that work. Order the noodles. Let the street noise do the rest of the scene.

Photo: Gipe0001, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.