Admiral Yi Sun-sin fought Japan's invasion fleets in 1592–1598 along Korea's south coast, from his base at Yeosu to Okpo, Hansan Island, the Myeongnyang Strait and the Noryang Strait, where he died in the last major battle.
The route follows five places in order: the headquarters, the first victory, the crane-wing trap, the strait where 13 ships faced a far larger fleet, and the final night. Several pins mark waters or harbours rather than exact battle spots.
XO, Kitty, the spin-off of the To All the Boys films, is set at a fictional Seoul school but filmed at real places: Incheon International Airport, Kaywon University of Art and Design, the Dongdaemun Design Plaza and Hwaseong Fortress's Seojangdae.
The route follows Kitty's first season from landing at the airport to the end-of-term talent show, taking in a hotel exterior at State Tower Namsan, Nodeul Island on the Han River and the Independence Hall of Korea in Cheonan. The school itself is fictional, and its interiors were shot at other sites around Seoul.
The fictional seaside village of Gongjin in Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha is Pohang, South Korea: Cheongha Market, the village of Cheongjin-ri, Sabang Memorial Park and the Seokbyeong-ri lighthouse.
Seoul dentist Yoon Hye-jin opens a clinic in Gongjin and falls for Chief Hong. The route follows the market, clinic, boat and lighthouse, then makes one side trip to a museum in Yangju. Two pins mark villages, not exact buildings.
Itaewon Class is set in Seoul's Itaewon, where ex-convict Park Sae-ro-yi opens the DanBam bar, and its real filming spots include SEOUL BAM, the Noksapyeong Overpass and Namsan Park.
The route follows six places where scenes of the 2020 series were shot, from the guesthouse where the leads first meet to the graffiti wall where they take pictures at the end. Some pins mark only a street, as noted at each stop.
Winter Sonata, the 2002 Korean drama that started the second wave of the Korean Wave, was filmed primarily on Nami Island in Chuncheon, with more scenes at Yongpyong Resort and on the Oedo garden island. Its tale of a first love lost to amnesia sends you to a lakeside city and a snowy ski slope.
The route follows Joon-sang and Yoo-jin from their school days in Chuncheon through Nami Island, Jungdo and Chuam Beach, then ten years on to Yongpyong and the finale at Oedo. Two stops are unpinned: the sources name them without an exact spot.
Goblin was filmed in Seoul, on the Jumunjin breakwater on Korea's east coast and in Quebec City, where the red door in Petit-Champlain, the Château Frontenac and the Tourny fountain appear. A Goryeo general killed by his king returns as an immortal goblin and spends 939 years looking for the bride who can pull the sword from his chest.
The route follows the story from the palace set where his Goryeo past was filmed to his house in Seoul, the Gangneung breakwater where they first meet, and the old streets of Quebec City beyond a red door. It ends at the park that stands in for the Yoo family cemetery.
Crash Landing on You filmed its Swiss scenes on location at real places: Kleine Scheidegg, the piano pier on Lake Brienz, the Sigriswil gorge bridge and the First station above Grindelwald. Jeju's Ara-dong forest stands in for the North Korean DMZ, where a tornado carries the heiress Yoon Se-ri, and Ri Jeong-hyeok hides her as the two fall in love across the divided countries.
This route follows the story in episode order, from Se-ri's landing in a Jeju forest to the reunion above Grindelwald. Nothing was filmed in North Korea: the Pyongyang and Kaesong stations were played by Ulaanbaatar, and the DMZ scenes by several of Jeju's oreums.
Seong Gi-hun is a divorced gambler in Seoul, broke and in debt. A smiling stranger offers him a game of ddakji on a subway platform, and soon he is playing children's games for his life. The arena is fiction: the games were built as sets at the Daejeon Expo Science Park and later dismantled, and the island exteriors come from Seongapdo, a private island that cannot be visited.
Everything around the arena is real — the market, the corner shop, the amusement park, the airport — and this route follows those places in story order, from a schoolyard in the first episode to a park where the Salesman starts recruiting again.
El Seúl de «Parásitos» es una ciudad de escaleras: Dwaeji Super en Ahyeon-dong, Sky Pizza en Noryangjin, el camino a la villa de los Park en Seongbuk y el túnel de Jahamun. El semisótano de los Kim era un decorado en Goyang, hoy demolido.
La ruta va de una tienda de barrio en Ahyeon-dong al túnel de Jahamun y al decorado de inundación de Goyang. Las dos casas de las familias eran decorados, así que las casas en sí no figuran en el mapa.
Slam Dunk sigue a Hanamichi Sakuragi, que entra en el equipo de baloncesto del instituto Shohoku para impresionar a una chica y resulta ser un talento natural. Su costa de Shōnan es real: un paso a nivel de la apertura del anime, una estación junto al mar rebautizada con el nombre de un instituto rival y la playa donde termina la película.
La ruta va del paso a nivel de Kamakurakōkōmae a la playa de Kugenuma, en Fujisawa, pasando por el instituto que sirvió de modelo para Ryonan y el gimnasio de Hiratsuka.
Sunja crece en la pensión de su madre en Yeongdo, una isla en el puerto de Busan, bajo el dominio japonés. Embarazada de un hombre casado, se casa en cambio con un pastor amable y se va con él a Osaka, donde los coreanos viven pobres y despreciados en un barrio llamado Ikaino. La serie de Apple TV+ (2022–2024), basada en la novela de Min Jin Lee de 2017, sigue a cuatro generaciones de su familia de 1915 a 1989.
La ruta sigue a la familia por lugares reales de Corea y Japón, en el orden de la historia. Las casas, tiendas y oficinas de la serie son ficticias, así que los marcadores señalan los barrios y ciudades donde se ambienta la historia, no los lugares de rodaje.
En noviembre de 1274, una flota mongola y coreana desembarcó en Tsushima, una isla japonesa montañosa a medio camino de Corea, y arrolló a sus escasos defensores. El juego de Sucker Punch de 2020 sitúa en esa invasión a un samurái ficticio, Jin Sakai: sobrevive a la matanza en la playa y se convierte en «el Fantasma», un guerrillero que rompe el código samurái para expulsar a los invasores.
Los diseñadores visitaron Tsushima dos veces, pero no la copiaron fielmente. Esta ruta recorre los lugares reales que hay detrás de la batalla inicial del juego, su castillo y sus santuarios, la mayoría incluidos en la propia guía de la isla para jugadores. Jin, su clan y sus batallas son ficción; el desembarco, la fortaleza y las montañas no.
