๐ฅLife in a Korean Company① ํฌ์ฅ๋ง์ฐจ : ์ ๋ ดํ๋ค, ์ข ๋ก, ์ ์ด, ์ฌ์๋
๐ฌ ๊ทน์ฌ์ค(Super real) ํ๊ตญํ์ฌ ์ํ ① ํฌ์ฅ๋ง์ฐจ
์๊ฐ: ์ด ๊ฒ์๊ธ์ ํ๊ตญ ํ์ฌ์๋ค์ ํ์ค์ ์ธ ์ผ์ ์ค ํ๋์ธ 'ํฌ์ฅ๋ง์ฐจ' ๋ฌธํ๋ฅผ ์ฟ๋ณผ ์ ์๋ ๋ํ ์คํฌ๋ฆฝํธ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ฑ์ฅ์ธ๋ฌผ๋ค์ ๋ํ๋ฅผ ํตํด ํ๊ตญ์ ํฌ์ฅ๋ง์ฐจ ๋ฌธํ, ์ง์ฅ์ธ๋ค์ ์ ํ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ ์ ์ธ๋์ ํธ๋ ๋๊น์ง ์์ฐ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ๋ฐฐ์ธ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ถ๊ฐ ์ ๋ณด๋ก ํฌ์ฅ๋ง์ฐจ ๋ฉ๋ด์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ, ์ ๋ช ํฌ์ฅ๋ง์ฐจ์ด ์ ๋ณด, K-์ฝํ ์ธ ์ ํฌ์ฅ๋ง์ฐจ ์ฌ๋ก๋ ํจ๊ป ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค.
Introduction: This post is a dialogue script offering a glimpse into 'Pojangmacha' culture, a realistic part of Korean office workers' daily lives. Through the characters' conversation, you can naturally learn about Korean pojangmacha culture, the joys and sorrows of office workers, and even the trends among the younger generation. Additional information on pojangmacha menus and prices, famous pojangmacha areas, and examples from K-content are also included.

ํ๊ตญ ๋๋ผ๋ง, ์ํ์ ๋จ๊ณจ์ฅ์ 'ํฌ์ฅ๋ง์ฐจ' | 'Pojangmacha', a frequent setting in Korean dramas and films
✨ ์ฅ์ & ๋ฑ์ฅ์ธ๋ฌผ | Setting & Characters
์ฅ์: ํ๊ตญ์ ํ ํฌ์ฅ๋ง์ฐจ, ๋ฆ์ ๋ฐค (์ฌ์๋ ํ๊ฐ๊ณต์ ๊ทผ์ฒ)
- Setting: A Korean pojangmacha (street tent bar) late at night, near Yeouido Hangang Park.
๋ฑ์ฅ์ธ๋ฌผ:
- Characters:
- Kim Supervisor (๊น ๊ณผ์ฅ): A veteran office worker with 10 years of experience in Korean workplaces.
- Lee Manager (์ด ๋๋ฆฌ): A hip, MZ generation office worker.
- Hipster (ํ์คํฐ): A person who follows the latest trends and styles
- MZ generation (MZ์ธ๋): People born between the early 1980s and early 2000s
✨ (ํฌ์ฅ๋ง์ฐจ ํ ์ด๋ธ์ ์์ ์์ฃผ์์ ๊ธฐ์ธ์ด๋ ์ธ ์ฌ๋. ์์ฃผ๋ ๊น์น์ฐ๊ฐ์ ํด๋ฌผํ์ ์ด๋ค. ๋ค๋ก๋ ์ฌ์๋ ํ๊ฐ๊ณต์์ ์ผ๊ฒฝ์ด ํผ์ณ์ ธ ์๋ค.)
(The three are sitting at a pojangmacha table, sipping soju. The side dishes are kimchi jjigae (kimchi stew) and haemul pajeon (seafood pancake). The night view of Yeouido Hangang Park stretches out behind them.)
'-๊ฐ ๋๋ค'๋ ๋ช ์ฌ ๋ค์ ๋ถ์ด '๋ฌด์์ด ๋๋ค'๋ผ๋ ์๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๋ํ๋ ๋๋ค. ์ฌ๊ธฐ์๋ '์๋ก'๋ผ๋ ๋ช ์ฌ ๋ค์ ๋ถ์ด '์๋ก๊ฐ ๋๋ค' ์ฆ, '์์์ด ๋๋ค', 'comfort becomes'๋ผ๋ ์๋ฏธ๋ก ์ฌ์ฉ๋์์ต๋๋ค.
✨ Grammar Note: '-ga doeda' (be/become)
'-ga doeda' is attached after a noun to mean 'to become something'. Here, it is attached after the noun '์๋ก' (wiro, comfort) to mean '์๋ก๊ฐ ๋๋ค', which means 'to be a comfort' or 'comfort becomes'.
Example: ๊ณต๋ถ๊ฐ ์ทจ๋ฏธ๊ฐ ๋์์ด์. (Studying became my hobby.)

๋๋ผ๋ง ์ ํ ์ฅ๋ฉด ๊ฐ์ ํฌ์ฅ๋ง์ฐจ | A pojangmacha scene like one from a drama
๐ ํฌ์ฅ๋ง์ฐจ์ ๋งค๋ ฅ / Attraction of Pojangmacha
ํฌ์ฅ๋ง์ฐจ๋ ๋จ์ํ ์์์ ํ๋ ๊ณณ์ ๋์ด, ํ๊ตญ์ธ์ ๋ฌธํ์ ์ ์๊ฐ ๋ด๊ธด ํน๋ณํ ๊ณต๊ฐ์ ๋๋ค.
Pojangmacha is more than just a place to sell food; it is a special space that contains Korean culture and emotions.
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ํนํ ๋ถ์๊ธฐ: ํ๊ตญ ๋๋ผ๋ง๋ ์ํ์์ ์์ฃผ ๋ฑ์ฅํ๋ ํฌ์ฅ๋ง์ฐจ๋ ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋ค์๊ฒ ํ๊ตญ ๋ฌธํ์ ๋ํ ํธ๊ธฐ์ฌ์ ์๊ทนํ๋ค.
- Unique atmosphere: Pojangmacha, which often appears in Korean dramas and movies, stimulates foreigners’ curiosity about Korean culture.
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์ ๋ ดํ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ: ํฌ์ฅ๋ง์ฐจ๋ ์ ๋ ดํ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ผ๋ก ๋ค์ํ ํ๊ตญ ์์์ ๋ง๋ณผ ์ ์๋ ๊ณณ์
๋๋ค. ํนํ ๊ธธ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ์์์ ์ ๋ ดํ๋ฉด์๋ ํธ์งํ ์์ ์๋ํ๋ค.
์ ๋ ดํ (jeoryeomhan): Affordable, Not expensive = "๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ด ์ธ๋ค"
- Affordable prices: Pojangmacha is a place where you can taste various Korean foods at affordable prices. Especially street food boasts cheap and generous portions.
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์ง์ํ ๋ํ: ๊ฒฉ์ ์๋ ๋ถ์๊ธฐ์์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ์์งํ๊ณ ์ง์ํ ๋ํ๋ฅผ ๋๋ ์ ์๋ค.
- Candid conversations: In an informal atmosphere, people can have honest and candid conversations.
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๋ค์ํ ์์: ๋ก๋ณถ์ด, ์๋, ์ด๋ฌต ๋ฑ ๋ํ์ ์ธ ๊ธธ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ์์๋ถํฐ ๋ญ๋ฅ์ง, ๊ผผ์ฅ์ด ๋ฑ ํน์ ์๋ ์์ฃผ๊น์ง ๋ค์ํ ๋ฉ๋ด๋ฅผ ์ฆ๊ธธ ์ ์๋ค.
- Diverse food: From representative street foods like tteokbokki, sundae, and eomuk to unique side dishes like dakttongjip and kkomjangeo, you can enjoy a variety of menus.
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์ ๊ทผ์ฑ: ๊ธธ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ณณ๊ณณ์์ ์ฝ๊ฒ ์ฐพ์๋ณผ ์ ์์ด ์ ๊ทผ์ฑ์ด ๋ฐ์ด๋๋ค.
- Accessibility: They can be easily found throughout the streets, offering excellent accessibility.
๐ ํฌ์ฅ๋ง์ฐจ ๋ฉ๋ด & ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ (์์) / Pojangmacha Menu & Prices (Examples)
ํฌ์ฅ๋ง์ฐจ ๋ฉ๋ด์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ ์ฅ์์ ์๊ธฐ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ๋ค๋ฅผ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์๋๋ ์ผ๋ฐ์ ์ธ ์์์ ๋๋ค.
Pojangmacha menus and prices can vary depending on the location and time. Below are typical examples.
๋ฉ๋ด (Korean) | Menu (English) | ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ๋ (Price Range) |
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๋ก๋ณถ์ด | Tteokbokki (Spicy rice cakes) | ₩3,000 - ₩5,000 |
์๋ | Sundae (Korean blood sausage) | ₩3,000 - ₩5,000 |
ํ๊น | Twigim (Fried snacks) | ₩3,000 - ₩5,000 |
์ด๋ฌต/์ค๋ | Eomuk/Odeng (Fish cake skewers) | ₩1,000 - ₩2,000 (per skewer) |
๊น์น์ฐ๊ฐ | Kimchi Jjigae (Kimchi stew) | ₩10,000 - ₩15,000 |
ํด๋ฌผํ์ | Haemul Pajeon (Seafood pancake) | ₩15,000 - ₩20,000+ |
๋ญ๋ฅ์ง | Dakttongjip (Chicken gizzard) | ₩15,000 - ₩20,000 |
๊ผผ์ฅ์ด | Kkomjangeo (Baby eel) | ₩20,000 - ₩30,000+ |
์์ฃผ | Soju | ₩4,000 - ₩6,000 |
๋ง๊ฑธ๋ฆฌ | Makgeolli (Korean rice wine) | ₩5,000 - ₩7,000 |
๐ ์ ๋ช ํฌ์ฅ๋ง์ฐจ์ด / Famous Pojangmacha Areas
ํ๊ตญ์๋ ํฌ์ฅ๋ง์ฐจ๊ฐ ๋ชจ์ฌ ์๋ 'ํฌ์ฅ๋ง์ฐจ์ด'๋ค์ด ์ฌ๋ฌ ๊ณณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ฐ๊ธฐ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋ถ์๊ธฐ์ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ์๋ํฉ๋๋ค.
There are several 'Pojangmacha Villages' where pojangmacha are gathered in Korea. Each boasts a different atmosphere and charm.
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๋ก3๊ฐ (Jongno 3-ga): ์์ธ์ ๋ํ์ ์ธ ํฌ์ฅ๋ง์ฐจ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ก, ์ ํต์ ์ธ ๋ถ์๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋ ์ ์๋ค. ๋
ธํฌ๋ค์ด ๋ง์ ์ค๋ ์ญ์ฌ๋ฅผ ์๋ํ๋ฉฐ, ์๋ฏผ์ ์ธ ๋ถ์๊ธฐ์์ ์ ํ์ ๊ธฐ์ธ์ด๊ธฐ ์ข๋ค.
- Jongno 3-ga: A representative pojangmacha street in Seoul, where you can feel a traditional atmosphere. There are many old establishments boasting a long history, making it a good place to have a drink in a commoner's atmosphere.
- ์์ง๋ก ๋
ธ๊ฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ณจ๋ชฉ (Euljiro Nogari Alley): ๋
ธ๊ฐ๋ฆฌ(ํฉํํฌ)์ ๋งฅ์ฃผ๋ฅผ ์ ๋ ดํ๊ฒ ์ฆ๊ธธ ์ ์๋ ๊ณณ์ผ๋ก ์ ๋ช
ํ๋ค. ๋ ํธ๋ก ๊ฐ์ฑ์ ์ข์ํ๋ ์ ์ ์ธ๋์๊ฒ ํนํ ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋ง๋ค.
- Euljiro Nogari Alley: Famous for enjoying dried pollack (nogari) and beer at affordable prices. It is particularly popular among the younger generation who love retro vibes.
- ์ฌ์๋ ํ๊ฐ๊ณต์ (Yeouido Hangang Park): ๋ณธ๋ฌธ์์ ์ธ๊ธ๋ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ, ํ๊ฐ์ ์ผ๊ฒฝ์ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์ผ๋ก ๋ญ๋ง์ ์ธ ๋ถ์๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ฆ๊ธธ ์ ์๋ ๊ณณ์ด๋ค. ํด๊ทผ ํ ์ง์ฅ์ธ๋ค์ด ๋ง์ด ์ฐพ๋๋ค.
- Yeouido Hangang Park: As mentioned in the main text, it's a place where you can enjoy a romantic atmosphere with the night view of the Hangang River in the background. Many office workers visit after work.
- ๊ฐ๋จ์ญ (Gangnam Station): ํธ๋ ๋ํ๊ณ ํ๋์ ์ธ ๋ถ์๊ธฐ์ ํฌ์ฅ๋ง์ฐจ๊ฐ ๋ง๋ค. ์ ์ ์ธต์ด ์ฃผ๋ก ์ฐพ๋ ๊ณณ์ผ๋ก, ๋ค์ํ ํจ์ ์์ฃผ์ ๊น๋ํ ์ธํ
๋ฆฌ์ด๊ฐ ํน์ง์ด๋ค.
- Gangnam Station: There are many trendy and modern pojangmacha here. It's a place mainly frequented by young people, characterized by various fusion side dishes and neat interiors.

์ธ๊ตญ์ธ์ด K-๋๋ผ๋ง์ฒ๋ผ ํ๊ตญ ํฌ์ฅ๋ง์ฐจ์์ ์ฌ์ง์ ์ฐ๋ ๋ชจ์ต | A foreigner taking a photo at a Korean pojangmacha like in a K-drama
๐บ K-์ฝํ ์ธ ์ ํฌ์ฅ๋ง์ฐจ / Pojangmacha in K-Content
ํฌ์ฅ๋ง์ฐจ๋ ํ๊ตญ ๋๋ผ๋ง์ ์ํ์์ ์์ฃผ ๋ฑ์ฅํ๋ ์์ง์ ์ธ ๊ณต๊ฐ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ฑ์ฅ์ธ๋ฌผ๋ค์ด ์๋ง์์ ํธ์ด๋๊ฑฐ๋, ์ค์ํ ๊ฒฐ์ ์ ๋ด๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ฑ ๊ทน์ ์ธ ์ฅ๋ฉด์ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์ด ๋๊ณค ํฉ๋๋ค.
Pojangmacha is an iconic space that frequently appears in Korean dramas and films. It often serves as a backdrop for dramatic scenes where characters reveal their true feelings or make important decisions.
- ๋๋ผ๋ง '์ดํ์ ํด๋ผ์ฐ (Itaewon Class)': ์ฃผ์ธ๊ณต ๋ฐ์๋ก์ด๊ฐ ์ด๋ ค์ด ์ํฉ ์์์๋ ํฌ์ฅ๋ง์ฐจ๋ฅผ ์ด์ํ๋ฉฐ ๊ฟ์ ํค์๋๊ฐ๋ ๋ชจ์ต์ด ์ธ์์ ์ด์๋ค.
- Drama 'Itaewon Class': The protagonist, Park Saeroyi, impressively runs a pojangmacha and nurtures his dreams even in difficult circumstances.
- ๋๋ผ๋ง '์, ๋ง์ด์จ์ด (Fight For My Way)': ํ์ค์ ์ธ ์ฒญ์ถ๋ค์ ์ถ์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๋ฉฐ, ํฌ์ฅ๋ง์ฐจ์์ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ์๋กํ๊ณ ์์ํ๋ ์ฅ๋ฉด๋ค์ด ๋ง์ด ๋ฑ์ฅํ๋ค.
- Drama 'Fight For My Way': Showing the realistic lives of young adults, many scenes featured friends comforting and cheering each other on at pojangmacha.
- ๋๋ผ๋ง '์ ์ฌ ์
๊ณ ํ์ด (Lovely Runner)': ์ฃผ์ธ๊ณต๋ค์ด ํ๋ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ณด๋ผ ๋ ํฌ์ฅ๋ง์ฐจ์์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋๋ฉฐ ์๋ก์๊ฒ ํ์ด ๋์ด์ฃผ๋ ์ฅ๋ฉด์ด ์์ฒญ์๋ค์๊ฒ ๊น์ ์ธ์์ ๋จ๊ฒผ๋ค.
- Drama 'Lovely Runner': The scene where the protagonists talk and support each other at a pojangmacha during tough times left a deep impression on viewers.
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