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Artmonster Gangnam is the place where the intense first appearance of the Refund Sisters happened. Inspired by Hong Kong’s SoHo district, Artmonster is Korea’s first Hong Kong pub-inspired craft beer bar with Chinese signs and red and green neon lights. The exotic atmosphere starts at the entrance to the bar, which is popular as a photo zone. Artmonster operates a craft beer brewery of 2,300 meter squares in Gunpo for the delivery of fresh beer every day. The beer won 69 awards at the Korea International Beer Awards from 2018 to 2020 with its superior tastes and flavors as representative beer of Korea. The two-story bar offers ten types of craft beer and five imported guest beers in a self-pouring system where customers can serve themselves the beer of their choice in 10-milliliter units.

This is the place that was shown as Jimmy Yoo’s house in the episode where Jimmy Yoo (Yoo Jae-seok) invites Man-ok, Eun-bi, and Sil-bi to his house. Chairman House is a restaurant for antique dining where all customers are treated like chairpersons. The retro atmosphere of the mother-of-pearl designs that highlight the traditional beauty of Korea and the newtro atmosphere of the Western chandelier create a unique modernity. The “Chairman’s Serving” with the grilled pork shoulder topped with sweet potato mousse and the “mille-feuille” hot pot with thin slices of meat wrapped in fresh cabbage and perilla leaves boiled in stock and dipped with citron ponzu sauce are the restaurants main dishes. The “mille-feuille” is boiled with mung bean sprouts, cabbages, bok choy, oyster mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, and enoki mushrooms, making the soup even more savory. The tteokbokki with intestines is another popular dish. The restaurant is favored by customers who wish to enjoy a good time with food sold at reasonable prices.

Angmoosae Lewis was used as Jimmy Yoo’s office space. Although the café appeared as an old office on television, Angmoosae Lewis is actually a café with a retro city pop vibe in Seongsu-dong. The retro props laid out from the entrance and in all corners of the cafe remind customers of the 1990s. An analog television is left on for customers to experience the charms of the analog times. All props are placed under different lights for different daytime and nighttime moods. The café has grown popular on China’s Instagram, “Xiaohongshu,” which has brought many international students and foreigners to the café. The “homemade marmalade ade,” “highball,” and “homemade cheesecake” continue to be adored by visitors.

This is the place where the Refund Sisters members, Jimmy Yoo, and the managers first heard the final recording of their song and tried on outfits for the stage. The eye-catching venue with an interior design resembling a public bath is “Haenghwatang,” which was an actual public bath frequented by residents of Ahyeon-dong for over forty years starting in 1958. After its closure in 2008 due to redevelopments in its vicinity, the public bath was reborn as a complex culture and art space in 2016. The past of removing dirt from the body at the public bath was transformed into an art space where visitors can remove dirt from their souls as a café that sells coffee and beverages as well as a gallery and stage for concerts and exhibitions. The café fully preserved bath time with the faded crimson walls, broken square tiles, worn ceiling frames, etc. The Haenghwa Ade, made from homemade apricot preserves, and the Haenghwa Tea are the café’s signature menu items. There are also fun and popular drinks like the Banana Bath Milk and Lower-Body Bath Latte.