Kim Young-cheol's Neighborhood Tour [I Want to Climb the Hillside Village - Heukseok-dong, Sangdo-dong, Dongjak-gu, Seoul] □ The first place I visited was Hyosajeong, a pavilion located in the center of Heukseok-dong, which offers a panoramic view of the Hangang River, Bukhansan Mountain, Namsan Mountain, Dongjak Bridge, and Olympic Road. Hyosajeong, built with the spirit of filial piety during the Joseon Dynasty, also has a bitter history of being used as a Hangang shrine during the Japanese colonial period because of its beautiful scenery. Perhaps that is why. On the way up to Hyosajeong, there is a monument and a statue of Sim Hun, an independence activist and writer during the Japanese colonial period, who wrote about the sorrow of losing his country. I began my journey through the neighborhood by quietly looking into the stories behind Hyosajeong, a hidden attraction in Heukseok-dong that I had not known about. As I walked up the hill, I heard a lively cheer from the entrance of the mountain. Following the sound, I entered a place where actor Kim Young-cheol was greeted by elderly people with an average age of nearly 80. The secret to the youthful appearance of seniors who look 10 years younger than their peers is playing badminton with a smile every morning. Playing badminton with cheerful seniors, he starts the morning lively. After passing the hillside, he comes down to Daehak-ro, located in the center of Heukseok-dong. On the way out, he stops by a restaurant where food is being prepared to welcome students from early in the morning. The place where actor Kim Young-chul’s eyes linger is a teahouse that looks old at first glance. When he goes inside after passing the creaky old wooden stairs, the interior looks like a time travel to 1983. The signature menu here is ‘siphon coffee’, brewed with tools that would be used in science classes. He fills the walls of the teahouse with college students’ graffiti, and takes the time to look back on his youth while drinking a cup of fragrant coffee brewed with a novel tool filled with generosity. On his way from Heukseok-dong to Sangdo-dong, actor Kim Young-chul encounters two jangseung standing guard on the road. This place, named Jangseungbaegi, is said to be where King Jeongjo of the Joseon Dynasty stopped by on his way to Hwaseong Hyeonreungwon to pay his respects because he couldn’t forget his father, Crown Prince Sado. While looking into the story of Jangseungbaegi and cooling off, he meets an elder from the neighborhood and chats with him for a while before continuing on his way. At the entrance of Sangdo-dong, there is a place that catches the attention of actor Kim Young-cheol. It is an old used bookstore that is only about two pyeong in size and has a door that is so small that you have to bend down to enter. The old bookshelves are filled with used books. Among them, the owner’s most treasured items are an elementary school album made right after the Korean War and a 400-year-old book. The owner says that he can’t close the bookstore because there are even a single customer visiting. The books he sells are filled with old memories filled with people’s nostalgia. As you walk up the hill of Sangdo-dong, two things catch your eye: people climbing the steep road and a vegetable garden that has been carefully cultivated on every scrap of land. Among them, we met an old couple who cultivated a vegetable garden on a sunny rooftop. They personally grew over 10 kinds of vegetables, including carrots, tomatoes, and peppers, and created their own small farm on the rooftop. The grandfather’s deep feelings about installing solar panels to save even a little money after retirement are also buried inside. We take a look into the daily life of an old couple who have lived their entire lives in a house full of sunlight, Sangdo-dong. Just as he was about to set off again, actor Kim Young-cheol stopped in his tracks at the sound of children’s laughter filling the neighborhood. He approached the children who were laughing and pedaling their bicycles in the yard of a daycare center. It turned out that they were giving an easy-to-understand energy lesson by generating electricity by pedaling their bicycles along with the electricity stored in the solar panels. He pedaled his bicycle vigorously on behalf of the children, creating a refreshing fountain, and made cotton candy to give the children a very special summer vacation time before setting off again. As I climbed the steep hill again, actor Kim Young-chul was already out of breath and sweat was dripping down his forehead. At that moment, when I desperately wanted a spot of shade, I noticed a sign that said “Unmanned Cafe” in front of a seemingly ordinary house. I carefully went inside and found out that it was a place like a village spring where anyone who got tired of climbing the hill could come in and have a sip of water or a cup of tea for free and rest comfortably. In a world where it was scary to even open