The popular U.S. burger chain In-N-Out held a one day pop-up store in Gangnam where people waited up to five hours for a burger:
![In-N-Out pop-up store in southern Seoul on Oct. 15. [CHO YONG-JUN]](https://i0.wp.com/koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/data/photo/2025/10/15/1fe7c6fb-5541-44ff-af77-ac06eea0053e.jpg?w=640&ssl=1)
In-N-Out pop-up store in southern Seoul on Oct. 15. [CHO YONG-JUN]
The customer first in line arrived at 3 a.m., according to the restaurant manager of Schedule Cheongdam.
They lined up in Apgujeong in southern Gangnam on Wednesday, not for some boutique store, a K-pop pop-up event or a Michelin-starred restaurant, but for In-N-Out.
However, there were only 500-or-so burgers prepared and by the time this reporter visited the restaurant, five minutes before 2 p.m., they were all long gone.
In-N-Out returned to Korea — for just a half a day — on Wednesday as a half-day pop-up store. Despite being the fifth time the popular American hamburger chain has opened a pop-up store in the country, it still didn’t stop Koreans from lining up for the burgers.“I’ve tasted many different burger brands, but I never had In-N-Out until today, and they are really good,” Cho Ha-young, a 22-year-old customer who waited for almost five hours for the In-N-Out pop-up on Wednesday, told the Korea JoongAng Daily.
You can read more at the link, but In-N-Out hosts one day pop-up stores every 2-3 years in order to maintain their trademark in Korea. If they didn’t do this some other restaurant could use the name In-N-Out in Korea.
It did not take long for these new water buses to break:
Seoul city will suspend passenger services on its new waterborne public transportation system from Monday, just 10 days after its official launch, following a series of technical malfunctions.
The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced Sunday that the Hangang Bus will switch to trial runs from Monday until at least the end of October, aiming to enhance stability and safety for its passengers. Throughout the trial period, buses will run according to their timetables, but without passengers on board.
You can read more at the link.
For those living in Seoul there is a civil defense drill scheduled for this week:
An anti–air raid evacuation exercise will take place across Seoul at 2 p.m. on Wednesday as part of civil defense drills designed to strengthen public response capabilities in the event of missile launches or other national emergencies.
When the air raid siren sounds at 2 p.m., citizens will be required to evacuate to the nearest shelter or underground safe facility and remain there for 15 minutes.
Vehicles traveling in restricted traffic zones, including Sejong-daero in central Seoul, must stop and pull over to the side of the road, remaining stationary for five minutes.
The air raid warning will be lifted at 2:20 p.m.
You can read more at the link.
I think the article meant Mt. Surak not Mt. Seorak. Mt. Surak is the large mountain that the old Camp Stanley in Uijeongbu is located at the base of. Mt. Surak is definitely a great place to escape the hustle and bustle of Seoul:
A new forest retreat has opened on the slopes of Seoraksan in northern Seoul, offering city dwellers a rare chance to unplug in nature without leaving the city.
Surak Hue, which officially opens Thursday, is Seoul’s first public forest lodge built within city limits. The 23.1 billion won project ($16.7 million) was jointly developed by the Seoul Metropolitan Government and Nowon-gu over seven years.
Located in Nowon-gu’s Sanggye-dong neighborhood, Surak Hue is built across 9,800 square meters of woodland and features 25 rooms in 18 buildings.
You can read more at the link.
