All 5 Extraordinary Attorney Woo Filming Locations (2022)
이상한 변호사 우영우 · ENA / Netflix · starring Park Eun-bin, Kang Tae-oh
· in Rest of Korea, Seoul, Gyeonggi & Incheon
Written by E Ho·Editor, Filmed in Korea· Last updated September 2026
Photo: Chamberikore · Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
The episode-7 hackberry tree was designated a national Natural Monument after the show aired — a drama literally rewrote Korea's heritage list.
Choose one cluster: the Changwon hackberry tree is a separate intercity trip, while Centerfield and Deoksugung are in Seoul. The former Suwon kimbap restaurant has closed; only its exterior remains. Respect village roads and working businesses.
KTX to Changwon Jungang Station, then taxi or local bus toward Daesan-myeon (30–40 minutes). Park at the free visitors' car park the village built beside its community hall — the tree is a 4-10 minute walk up from there. Do not drive into the village lanes; the district office has put up notices asking visitors not to, and they dead-end.
💡 A tiny village of about 70 residents — visit quietly and don't block the farm roads. The hilltop view over the fields is the drama's iconic shot. There is a Natural Monument information board at the tree, whale and drama murals in the lanes, and a decked path and pavilion built since. Allow 10-20 minutes for the tree alone, or about 40 including the riverside cycle path and viewing deck.
2Centerfield Building (Hanbada exterior)
The Teheran-ro tower used as law firm Hanbada — including the revolving door Young-woo conquers with Jun-ho's 'waltz' timing.
Address
231 Teheran-ro, Yeoksam-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul
Getting there
Yeoksam Station (Line 2), Exit 8 — 411m, about 6 minutes. The building's own site says 10; Naver's walking directions say 6. Seolleung Station Exit 5 is 583m.
💡 The revolving door is at the WEST tower, ground floor. The lobby and the escalator down to the shopping floors are open to anyone; the office lifts are behind a pass gate you cannot cross. We found no record of anyone being stopped for taking photos, and no drama signage of any kind. It is a working office building, so keep out of the flow at rush hour.
3Woo Young Woo Kimbap exterior (Kazaguruma — now closed, Suwon)
Closed down
The exterior of her father's kimbap shop, seen throughout the series. In real life it was Kazaguruma, a small Japanese rice-bowl restaurant in Suwon's Haenggung-dong old town — locally famous before the drama, not a kimbap shop at all.
💡 ⚠️ Kazaguruma has closed. As of August 2026 the same ground-floor unit is Haenggung Haru, a ceramic- and crayon-painting studio (classes from ₩15,000). The building and the lane are unchanged, so the exterior shot still works — but the signage is different and you can't eat there. You're inside UNESCO-listed Hwaseong Fortress territory, so walk the wall while you're here.
💡 Still open, and this one needs a name check: the bar is registered as 소소주점 (Soso Jujeom), not 소소바, so searching the drama's name on a Korean map app returns nothing and looks like a closure. It is on the ground floor and opens at 17:00 — there is a noraebang in the same building, which is what turns up if you search the address alone. Order something if you are photographing the place.
What the sources show
🔎 Last checked · September 2026
We compare official notices, location records and Korean-language visitor reports. Specific opening hours, fares and access can change; check the linked operator information before travel.
The tree became a Natural Monument, and the village changed with it
It was designated on 7 October 2022, three months after the drama aired — 16m tall, a 6.8m trunk, and 400 to 500 years old. Since then Changwon has spent about ₩576m on it: a fence to stop people climbing, exercise equipment moved away to reduce soil compaction, a boardwalk over the exposed roots, and by 2026 a pavilion, a decked path and a viewing deck. The photo-zone from the broadcast years has closed; the murals in the lanes are what remain.
Parking is the village's own doing
The residents laid out a free visitors' car park beside the community hall themselves, with a temporary toilet next to it — the city said in 2023 that a proper one needed separate budget, and we found no report of it being built since. From the car park it is a 4 to 10 minute walk up a short slope, too steep for a pushchair the whole way. Buses stop at Bukbu village, about 8 minutes' walk, or Bukbu, about 2.
Mid-to-late May is the window
The stretch of the Nakdong river embankment below the tree fills with golden coreopsis in the second half of May, and it is over by early June. April is bare branches, summer offers almost no shade under the canopy and the hilltop is windy, and by winter it is bare again. Free, always open — though it sits inside a lived-in village, so daylight only.
The crowds have gone
At its peak this village took a thousand visitors a day and five hundred cars, and residents went to the press about parking, noise until midnight, rubbish and people parking on farmland. That reporting stops after 2024, and every 2026 visit account we read describes the place as quiet. You are unlikely to be one of a crowd now — which is also why the quiet-visitor etiquette matters more, not less.
The bar is a six-minute walk from the metro
Guides send you to Jeongbalsan or Juyeop and then into a taxi. Soso Jujeom is 453m from Exit 6 of Daehwa Station on Line 3. It opens at 17:00, runs to midnight Monday to Thursday and to 01:00 on Friday and Saturday, and closes on Sundays — the Sunday closure is the one that catches people. The owner lists the drama on the shop's own listing, and there are signed photographs inside.
The kimbap shop unit has changed hands twice
The exterior belonged to Kazaguruma, a Japanese rice-bowl restaurant, which closed. A kimbap shop called Seoho Gimbap took the unit and then moved to Starfield Suwon in 2025, leaving it empty. Since about June 2026 it has been Haenggung Haru, a ceramic-painting studio open 11:00-18:00 with a 13:00-14:00 break. The lane and the building are unchanged, so the shot still works — but nothing there is about the drama any more, and there is no parking.
How far into Centerfield you can actually get
The revolving door is on the ground floor of the WEST tower and the lobby is open to anyone — several visitors walked in past the media wall with nobody stopping them, and we found no account of anyone being stopped for photographing it. The office lifts sit behind a pass gate that visitors cannot cross. The shopping floors below, B2 to 2F, are public. Whether the roof is open is not documented anywhere we could find.
The Exit 4 in the show is really Exit 5
The scene that names Yeoksam Station Exit 4 was filmed at Exit 5 of the underpass in front of Centerfield. If you go looking for the exact frame at Exit 4 you will not find it.
Based on: 57 Korean-language pages read on 9 September 2026 — 24 on the hackberry tree, 12 on the two shops, 21 on Centerfield, excluding search-result pages
Hanbada’s offices and the kimbap shop interior were studio sets — the exteriors above are the visitable pieces. The whale animations, sadly, remain unavailable at any address.
Updated August 2026: we re-checked every location here against Korean sources, and one thing changed. Kazaguruma — the restaurant behind the kimbap shop exterior — has closed. The unit at that address is now Haenggung Haru, a ceramic-painting studio. The building and the lane are unchanged, so the shot is still there; the restaurant is not. Most English-language guides still list it as open.
The Changwon pilgrimage
The hackberry tree is this drama’s true destination: a two-hour KTX plus a country bus, rewarded with the exact hilltop frame from the finale of episode 8. It’s the rare filming location that the drama itself made into protected national heritage — the visit doubles as a look at how K-content reshapes rural Korea.
Frequently asked questions
Where was Extraordinary Attorney Woo filmed?
Key real locations include the 500-year-old hackberry tree at Dongbu Village near Changwon (the episode 7–8 'Sodeok-dong' tree), the Centerfield Building on Teheran-ro in Gangnam used as law firm Hanbada, the Woo Young Woo Kimbap exterior in Suwon's Haenggung-dong, the Deoksugung Stonewall Walkway in Seoul, and Soso Bar in Ilsan, Goyang.
Where is the hackberry tree in Extraordinary Attorney Woo?
The 500-year-old paengnamu from episodes 7–8 stands at Dongbu Village, at 102-1 Bukbu-ri, Daesan-myeon, Uichang-gu, Changwon-si, Gyeongsangnam-do. After the show aired it was designated a national Natural Monument. It's a tiny village of about 70 residents, so visit quietly and don't block the farm roads.
How do you get to the hackberry tree from Seoul?
Take the KTX to Changwon Jungang Station, then a taxi or local bus toward Daesan-myeon (about 30–40 minutes); the village signs point the way. It's a committed two-hour KTX plus a country bus, rewarded with the exact hilltop frame from the episode 8 finale.
Can you visit the Woo Young Woo kimbap shop?
You can still visit the exterior, but the restaurant itself is gone. The building at 61 Sinpung-ro 23beon-gil, Paldal-gu, Suwon was Kazaguruma, a Japanese rice-bowl restaurant — and it has closed. As of August 2026 the same unit houses Haenggung Haru, a ceramic-painting studio. The lane and the facade are unchanged so the photo still works, but the sign is different and there's nothing to eat. The kimbap shop interior was always a studio set anyway.
Where is the revolving door from Extraordinary Attorney Woo?
The revolving door Young-woo conquers with Jun-ho's 'waltz' timing is at the Centerfield Building, 231 Teheran-ro, Yeoksam-dong, Gangnam-gu, used as the Hanbada exterior. Take Line 2 to Yeoksam Station; it's a working office building, so photograph the lobby and doors discreetly.
