Cafés in Suyeong & Mangmi-dong

F1963 and its Terarosa café

The F stands for factory and 1963 for the year the plant opened. After closing it served as a warehouse, then as an exhibition hall for the Busan Biennale in 2016.⁴ The Terarosa café at Gurak-ro 123beon-gil 20 is fitted out with pieces of the old plant, including wire-winding drums and iron-plate bars.⁴ The same complex holds Praha 993, a Czech beer restaurant.⁴

Yes24 runs its largest flagship bookstore in Korea here, selling used books, and the F1963 Library is a members-only art library of about 13,000 volumes.³ Kukje Gallery uses part of the building for larger exhibitions, the Moonlight Garden occupies a former shipping yard, and the Bamboo Sori Trail runs through a green strip outside.³

Getting to Mangmi-dong

F1963 is about five minutes by maeul bus (마을버스, neighborhood minibus) from Mangmi station on Line 3.⁵ Line 3 begins at Suyeong station, which is also on Line 2, the line that crosses Suyeong-gu from Millak to Namcheon.¹ The Suyeonggang river forms the district's northeastern edge.¹

Studios and galleries around Mangmi station

Artists' studios and small exhibition spaces have opened around Mangmi station.⁵ Kukje Gallery's Busan branch opened at F1963 in 2018, and Gallery May moved here from Seoul in 2019.⁵ The office of Art Busan, the international art fair, is a five-minute walk from F1963; the fair's previous edition had drawn more than 63,000 visitors when Weekly Kyunghyang reported on the area in February 2020.⁵ B-Con Ground (비콘그라운드), a complex built from containers under the Suyeong overpass, is run by the Busan Urban Regeneration Support Center.⁵

Cafés on Mangmibeonyeong-ro, Gwajeong-ro and Yeonsu-ro

The specialty roaster here is 고래커피로스터스 at Gwajeong-ro 16beon-gil 20, and Tata Espresso Bar is in Gwangan-dong. Gwajeong-ro also has 마이더치커피 on a second floor at no. 18-1, and 샐아웃 is on Gwajeong-ro 30beon-gil. Along the lanes of Mangmibeonyeong-ro sit Pause on 52beon-gil, the bakery café 꽃피는 4월 밀익는 5월 on 70beon-gil and 헬로커피하이허니 on 85beon-gil.

Hej.chez (헤이채즈) and 그앞 share Yeonsu-ro 357beon-gil, Deepsleepcoffee and Hio Coffee are on Suyeong-ro at nos. 663 and 675, and Owooker on Suyeong-ro 660beon-gil has Wi-Fi.

What remains of the Joseon fortress

The command post had moved twice before it came to Suyeong-dong just before the Imjin War, and after a spell at Gammanipo it returned here for good in 1652.² Most of the fortress fell into ruin during the Japanese colonial period; parts of the wall, the arched south gate and the drainage outlets survive.²