We went a few times to Insadong, during my first and my third visit to South Korea. This district of Seoul is mixing Korean and modern culture. For example, you'll see foreign restaurants or cafés (such as McDonald's or Starbucks), with their names in Korean (맥도날드 for McDonald's, 스타벅스 for Starbucks). And at a few streets near Insadong's main street, we can see some more traditional areas.

February 2017
We first went to a cat café. Cats are treated well there, and were behaving like cats as usual. Meowing, playing/teasing/fighting together, sleeping ...



We then went to a place with some shops inside, called Ssamjigil. We went to a place in which we could take pictures of the both of us, wearing hanbok, the Korean traditional clothes. We visited several shops, before leaving Insadong for Namsan.




April 2018
We went to Insadong for my birthday. We first walked in the streets (noticing the house where a former president lived, Yun Po-sun if I remember correctly), and stopped by at Cha masineun ddeul (also known as Cha-teul) for tea and sweets.







We then wandered at a famous area, Bukchon Hanok Village. Hanok is the kind of Korean traditional houses you'll see below. This place is very famous and locals are annoyed because some tourists passing by are quite noisy and sometimes disrespectful (they want to touch the doors or sometimes enter into these houses, from what I heard).


Under the Chinese notes, there was one in English : "We can not live !! We suffer from tourists ! This isn't a theme park !! Don't touch our property !!"



I enjoyed both sides of Insadong. Hopefully we'll go there again.