K-dramaPohang
When the Camellia Blooms
- Filming location
The Guryongpo Modern Culture History Street in Pohang, which served as the fictional 'Ongsan crab-stew alley' in KBS's 2019 drama 'When the Camellia Blooms.' A street of Japanese colonial-era houses, its entrance staircase is the main-poster spot.
Fan spots
Guryongpo Japanese-House Street
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The crab-stew alley of Ongsan in KBS's 2019 'When the Camellia Blooms' is this street. It is a modern-history district with some eighty Japanese-style houses from the colonial period still standing, and Camellia — where Dongbaek lived and ran her bar — now operates as a cafe and cultural space. The drama, which peaked at 23.8% viewership, turned an alley known for coach-tour groups into a street couples come to.
Camellia in Guryongpo
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This is Camellia, the bar Dong-baek keeps running through every sideways look the town gives her. It is now a cafe and gift shop; upstairs, the Japanese timber frame has been left exposed and you can sit quietly over tea. It stands inside the Guryongpo Japanese House Street, so a walk down the street brings you to it.