This is where Yeom Chang-hee (Lee Min-ki) works in My Liberation Notes/My Liberation Diary (나의 해방일지/나의 解放日誌) (JTBC, 2022) — as seen, for instance, in episode 15.

Yoon A-yi (Choi Sung-eun) works part-time at this store (appearing as ‘Nice ON’) as seen in episode 1 of The Sound of Magic (Annarasumanara/안나라수마나라) (Netflix, 2022).

This convenience store is run by Kim Jo-jo’s aunt and where Jo-jo (Kim So-Hyun) works here part-time in Love Alarm (좋아하면 울리는) (Netflix, 2019) — as seen in episode 1. She also lives in the rooftop apartment on top of this shop, together with her aunt.

This is the convenience store where Park Jeong-min (Kim Seung-cheol) works as a part-time employee in To.Jenny (투제니) (KBS2, 2018).

CU — Buam-dong Branch [CU 부암럭키점] is a branch of South Korean convenience store chain CU [씨유] operated by BGF Retail, which was launched in 2012 after their FamilyMart franchise license in South Korea had expired.

This branch, opened in 2017, — whose name translates as ‘CU Buam Lucky Branch’ — is located in Seoul’s neighborhood Buam [Buam-dong /부암동] in the Jongno District [Jongno-gu/종로구].

Address
15 Baekseokdong-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul, South Korea
서울특별시 종로구 백석동길 15
(부암동 237-8)
Geolocation: 37.5933866, 126.9657495

Getting here
Gyeongbokgung Station [경복궁역], Seoul Subway Line 3, Exit 3

➜ Walk about 270m to the Gyeongbokgung station bus stop [경복궁역 정류장 — no. 01116]
➜ Take buses 7212, 1021 and 7022 for 6 stops to ‘Buam-dong Community Center’ [부암동주민센터.무계원 — no. 01139]
➜ Head down Changuimun-ro [창의문로] and turn left into Baekseokdong-gil (백석동길)
➜ The road will split at one point; walk towards the left side of the street and head down it
➜ Keep on walking straight; the CU will appear on your left hand side.

— submitted by Chelle with directions by Marion & Mich KDL; last updated 30/05/2022
— Photo taken by © Thom Musni, August 2019
— Love Alarm added by Marion KDL
— The Sound of Magic added by Joseph Brenner