It is at this hotel that the competition between brands for Rublani’s PR agency happens in episode 3 of The Fabulous (Deo Paebyulleoseu/더 패뷸러스) (Netflix, 2022) and Pyo Ji-eun (Chae Soo-bin) participates with a pitch for Audrey.

Sim Soo-ryeon (Lee Ji-ah) has a meal here with Joo Seok-kyung (Han Ji-hyun), Joo Seok-hoon (Kim Young-dae), and Bae Ro-na (Kim Hyun-soo) at the Steak House [322 소월로–스테이크 하우스] of his hotel in episode 1 of Penthouse 3/The Penthouse: War in Life Season 3 (펜트하우스 3) (SBS, 2021).

Hansung’s private fashion party takes place at this hotel in episode 4 of When My Love Blooms/The Most Beautiful Moment in Life (화양연화 – 삶이 꽃이 되는 순간) (tvN, 2020) and Seo-kyung (Park Si-yeon) had asked Yoon Ji-soo (Lee Bo-young) to play the piano at the party to be able to teach her a lesson. Seo-kyung effectively sets out to humiliate Ji-soo — while Jae-hyun (Yoo Ji-tae) watches the scene from afar — but Ji-soo leaves the scene and takes a breather in this hotel’s empty Grand Floor. This is where Jae-hyun soon finds her and –as in the old days– puts his shoes on her feet (she had taken of the hurting heels before).

Do Min-ik’s (Kim Young-kwang) blind-date with Veronica Park (Kim Jae-kyung) is set up at the Paris Bar of this hotel (which appears as Kingdom Hotel) at the end of episode 6 and beginning of 7 of The Secret Life of My Secretary/I Loved You From The Beginning/How to Train My Blind Boss (초면에 사랑합니다) (SBS, 2019). However, Veronica Park had noted a wrong hotel and when Jung Gal-hee (Jin Ki-joo) comes to avert Min-ik, he confuses her with his blind-date and she decides in a second to play along; impersonating Veronica Park — her former boss.

This is where we first meet Lee Young-joon (Park Seo-joon) in episode 1 of Why Secretary Kim/What’s Wrong With Secretary Kim (김비서가 왜 그럴까) (tvN, 2018), as he walks through the hotel and outdoor swimming pool area to attend a function – however, his mind is occupied wondering why his secretary Kim Mi-so (Park Min-young) wishes to quit her position. Later in the episode, we see Mi-so rushing to the entrance of the hotel, where Young-joon is waiting for her to send him back home. He presents her with a flower bouquet in the car – not knowing that she has hay fever.

[SPOILER] In final episode 16, this is where Young-joon and Mi-so tie the knot, in the presence of family and friends. While the wedding takes place at the Grand Floor, the scene where Secretary Seol (Kim Ye-won) runs into Park Yoo-sik (Kang Ki-young) and Seo-jin (Seo Hyo-rim), and then Young-ok (Lee Jung-min) takes place outside the entrance to the Grand Salon.

Moon Soo-ho (Kim Rae-won) and Jung Hae-ra (Shin Se-kyung) go ice skating at Grand Hyatt’s outdoor ice skating rink [그랜드하얏트 서울 아이스링크] on their date in episode 13 of Black Knight: The Man Who Guards Me (흑기사) (KBS2, 2017-18).

This is the hotel that Ji Eun-tak (Kim Go-eun) and Kim Shin (Gong Yoo) stay at in episode 15 of Goblin/Guardian: The Lonely and Great God (쓸쓸하고 찬란하神 – 도깨비) (tvN, 2016-17).

This hotel appears as ‘Yat Hotel’ in episode 4 of Boys Over Flowers/Boys Before Flowers (꽃보다 남자) (KBS2, 2009) in front of which Goo Jun-pyo (Lee Min-ho) offers Geum Jan-di (Goo Hye-sun) a ride home after their night spent together at Namsan Tower. In episode 9, Jan-di and Jun-pyo as well as Chu Ga-eul (Kim So-eun) and her boyfriend come here to ice-skate on their double-date. Everything is fine until Ga-eul’s boyfriend takes Jun-pyo aside to tell him that there are better girls than Jan-di. Of course, Jun-pyo cannot hold back and beats him up. In episode 12, Jan-di meets up at this hotel with Jun-pyo’s mother who wants them to break up but Jan-di holds her ground even if it takes an emotional toll on her. In episode 15, Jun-pyo’s birthday party is celebrated here and his mother has also invited Jan-di. She tries to humiliate Jan-di first by asking her to play a birthday song for her ‘class mate’ and then announces that Jun-pyo’s fiancée will join everyone now to the surprise to her son and also Ha Jae-kyeong (Lee Min-jung) — Jun-pyo’s supposed fiancée. Later, an enraged Jun-pyo wants to talk with Jan-di and drags her away without noticing that it is actually Jae-kyeong he had wrist-grabbed. In episode 16, So Yi-jeong (Kim Beom) and Ga-Eul come here for ice-skating pretending to be a couple in episode 16 only to be followed in secret by Jan-di –with Jun-pyo in tow– who spy on them. But in reality this was Yi-jeong and Ga-eul’s scheme to get Jan-di and Jun-pyo back together. In episode 19, Yi-jeong takes Ga-eul to this hotel’s restaurant on their ‘date’ to meet his father for dinner and he makes mean comments towards the two. Later, it is Jun-pyo who drops off Jae-kyeong at this hotel after their evening out at Jan-di’s rooftop apartment.

Han Do-kyong (Choi Ji-woo) works out at the customer-only gym of this hotel in episode 3 of Air City (에어시티) (MBC, 2007).

The fashion show that Kim Bo-ro (Sung Yoo-ri) attends in episode 4 of The Snow Queen (눈의 여왕) (KBS2, 2006-07) takes place at this hotel. This is also where Han Deuk-gu (Hyun Bin) tracks her down and saves her from a too invasive admirer.

Yoo Eun-ho (Son Ye-jin) and Lee Dong-jin’s (Kam Woo-sung) wedding takes place here in Alone in Love (연애시대) (SBS, 2006).

On her way back to home from a party of Victory Records that took place here in episode 2 of Beautiful Days (아름다운 날들) (SBS, 2001), Kim Yun-Soo (Choi Ji-Woo) is stopped at the entry of this hotel by Lee Min-Chul (Lee Byung-Hun) who passes by her with his car (on his way to a meeting) and he tells her that he will invite her soon to thank her properly for scolding his sister Lee Min-Ji (Shin Min-A) for her bad behavior the other day.

Also seen in Lovers in Paris (파리의 연인) (SBS, 2004). The swimming pool scene, Han Gi-ju (Park Shin-yang) and Gang Tae-young’s (Kim Jung-eun) lobby kiss and Tae-young singing for Gi-ju at the bar as well as their engagement party and the college hockey party took all place here.

Grand Hyatt Seoul [그랜드하얏트 서울], is a five-star hotel located on Sowol-ro [소월로/素月路] in Seoul’s neighborhood Hannam [Hannam-dong/한남동], in the Yongsan District [Yongsan-gu/용산구], which opened in 1988.

In Goblin, the two lovers stay at the Presidential Suite of this hotel.

Instagram: @grandhyattseoul

Address
322 Sowol-ro, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, South Korea
서울특별시 용산구 소월로 322
(한남동 747-7)
Geolocation: 37.539349, 126.997147

Getting here
Hangangjin Station [한강진역], Seoul Subway Line 6, Exit 1
(6 min. by car/taxi; 13 min. walk)

— submitted by Marion KDL, updated by Mich KDL; last updated 21/01/2023