Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-Joo | Jeongneung, Kookmin Gate — The Slope Under the Chicken Sign

Bok Chicken is not a studio kitchen. The family table sat on the slope below Kookmin University's main gate in Jeongneung-dong, Seongbuk-gu, at the foot of 77 Jeongneung-ro. The working restaurant was Jageun Maeul, a neighbourhood place on the stairs that drop from the campus road toward the bus stop. Fans still come down those stairs. The fried chicken from the cut is not on the menu. What remains is the grade of the street, the university wall above it, and a table that faces the same hill. Bok-joo's father cooked here between training days. The camera treated the slope as home, not as a food tour. Jeongneung is a residential fold under Bukhansan. Students from Kookmin still eat on this block. The buses that stop at the main gate — 110A, 153, 7211 — are the same numbers printed in the old pilgrimage notes. Do not expect a neon replica of the sign. Expect a working street that the drama borrowed and did not take away.