The Historian · Hayoon · Seoul
Yongkeumok
Deals and dissent were argued out over these tables for generations. A tavern where the press and the powerful drank is a historical document.
A loach-soup and drinking house running since the 1930s near Cheonggyecheon, famous as a haunt of journalists and politicians through the whole postwar era.
— Hayoon, The Historian
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