My Name Filming Locations in Busan: Yeongdo and Haedong Yonggungsa
The four My Name locations the Korea Tourism Organization names, set out by scene, by what is there now, and by where they sit. Three are within 4 km of each other on Yeongdo; Haedong Yonggungsa is 20 km away and needs its own trip.
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If you are going after the My Name locations in Busan, the first thing to settle is whether all four can be done in one go. Three of the four the Korea Tourism Organization names are on Yeongdo, in the same stretch facing Busan Port. The reason the series could present the gang's world as one continuous place is that, on the ground, it very nearly is.
So the dividing question is simply Yeongdo or not. The three on the island are half a day on foot; Haedong Yonggungsa is 20 km east in Gijang and belongs to a different day.
Three that adjoin, one at the far end
The Yeongdo three — Busan Bridge is the way onto the island, Kangkangee Arts Village is in Daepyeong-dong beneath it, and the coast guard station is along Haeyang-ro on the same island. Under 4 km links all three.
The one in Gijang — Haedong Yonggungsa is at the opposite end of the city. It is 20 km from Yeongdo with no direct metro connection, so putting it in the same half-day means spending the half-day in transit.
The coast guard station is not an attraction
It is a working government office. The drama goes inside it; a visitor does not. What you can see is the outside of the building, and entering the premises or photographing staff is not on. Do not stand in the gateway.
The metro does not reach Yeongdo
No Busan metro line runs onto the island. You take a bus from around Nampo-dong or Jungang-dong, or you walk one of the bridges, so decide how you are getting there before you set out. Group the three Yeongdo locations in the order below, and keep Haedong Yonggungsa for a separate Gijang itinerary.
A half-day order around Yeongdo
Follow the three Yeongdo locations in the order below. The timetable and travel notes connect them in half a day.
| Start | Location | Stay | To the next location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00 | Busandaegyo Bridge | 30 min | Once across, 10 minutes on foot towards Daepyeong-dong |
| 10:40 | Kangkangee Arts Village | 80 min | City bus towards Haeyang-ro, roughly 20 to 25 minutes |
| 12:25 | Busan Coast Guard Station | 20 min | — |
For a full day linking Yeongdo’s shipyard lanes with Huinnyeoul and Taejongdae, use the one-day Yeongdo itinerary.
Whether you have watched the drama changes the list
If you are a fan of the series, take the Yeongdo three in the order Busan Bridge, Kangkangee Arts Village, coast guard station. You walk onto the island, drop into the quarter beneath the bridge and carry on out along Haeyang-ro, so nothing is doubled back. Keep Haedong Yonggungsa out of that sequence and give it a place on a Gijang day.
If you have not seen it, or are just passing through Busan, there is no reason to choose by the drama. Two of the four are worth the trip without it: Kangkangee Arts Village, where repair yards still run and small cafés share the lanes, and Haedong Yonggungsa, a temple built onto coastal rock above the sea. Busan Bridge is enough to walk across when you have reason to go over to Yeongdo, and the coast guard station, which you can only see from outside, is easy to drop if you are not a fan.
What you can go into, and when
Busan Bridge — not a site with an entrance, just a bridge with a footway you walk across.
Kangkangee Arts Village — The lanes of Kangkangee Arts Village do not have shared opening hours. Monday closures apply to some facilities and tours, so check the programme you plan to join. The Korea Tourism Organization lists a tour programme that runs at weekends, but that page was written a few years ago, so check the tour schedule again on the village's own site (kangkangee.com) before you go.
Busan Coast Guard Station — a working coast guard office with no visiting hours, no admission and no tour. Seeing the seafront building from outside is the whole of a visit.
Haedong Yonggungsa — visiting hours are in the table below. The site is reached down steps and over uneven rock, so wear shoes you can walk in and leave room for the people who have come to pray.
Haedong Yonggungsa visiting hours
| Every day | 04:30–19:20last entry 18:50 |
|---|
Source: Visit Busan (Busan Metropolitan City) — Haedong Yonggungsa ·
If something is shut or you are short of time
On a Monday, do not count on Kangkangee's visitor programme or tours. Cut the day down to walking Busan Bridge and seeing the coast guard station from outside, or move Yeongdo to another day.
If you are thinking of Haedong Yonggungsa late in the afternoon, look at the last-entry time in the table first. The Gijang coast is away from the metro and late buses are not frequent, so if the journey back looks uncertain, move the temple to another morning.
If you only have half a day, see the Yeongdo three and stop. If you had to keep just one of the four, keep Kangkangee Arts Village — it is the one you can actually go into and stay a while.
In this list
- Busan
Busandaegyo Bridge
Where Choi Mu-jin takes Yun Ji-woo into the gang and promises to help her get her revenge, the iron arch and the black water behind them. It has held its screen character better than anything else on this list, and there is a footway, so you can cross it on foot with the whole of Busan Port beside you.
- The scene
- Choi Mu-jin taking Ji-woo into the gang
- What is there now
- A white arch bridge you can walk across
- Where it is
- Yeongdo — the way onto the island
- Add it when
- You are starting the Yeongdo three
- Busan
Kangkangee Arts Village
Inchang, the gang's home ground. KTO writes that the village's own atmosphere fitted the story, and what that means on the ground is a dense old quarter of ship-repair yards that the series used as it found it. It is also the only one of the four with any visitor programme, and so the only location here you can genuinely go into.
- The scene
- Inchang, the gang's home ground
- What is there now
- A working ship-repair quarter, and murals
- Where it is
- Yeongdo — walking distance from the bridge
- Add it when
- You only have time for one of the four
BusanBusan Coast Guard Station
The station Yun Ji-woo infiltrates under a false identity. KTO writes that the scenes of her going there after her father's death were shot inside the real building as well. It is still a working government office, though, so there is no going in — what a visitor sees is the exterior.
- The scene
- The station Ji-woo infiltrates
- What is there now
- A working government office — exterior only
- Where it is
- Yeongdo — east along Haeyang-ro
- Add it when
- You are going round the island anyway
- Busan
Haedong Yonggungsa Temple
KTO records why it was chosen rather than which scene: it was picked, the page says, for the Buddhist idea that revenge goes round and round. It is the only one of the four that is not on Yeongdo — it sits at the opposite end of Busan, in Gijang, 20 km away — and it is a destination in its own right long before it is a filming location.
- The scene
- Revenge goes round and round — the reason, not a scene
- What is there now
- A temple built right on the sea
- Where it is
- Gijang — 20 km from Yeongdo
- Add it when
- You had reason to be in Haeundae or Gijang
04:30–19:20 (last entry 18:50)
Frequently asked questions
Can I see all four in one day?
The three on Yeongdo take about half a day. Busan Bridge and Kangkangee Arts Village connect on foot and the coast guard station is on the same island. Haedong Yonggungsa is in Gijang, 20 km away, so fitting all four into one day means spending close to two hours travelling. It sits much better on a Haeundae or Gijang day.
Can I go inside any of them?
Kangkangee Arts Village and Haedong Yonggungsa, yes. Busan Bridge is a bridge you walk across, and the coast guard station is a working government building, so there you stay outside. Do not enter the premises or photograph the staff.
Are any sets still standing?
No. All four are places in ordinary use and none of them was built for the production. Kangkangee is still a neighbourhood where people live and repair ships, and Haedong Yonggungsa is an active temple with services going on.
What does Kangkangee mean?
It comes from the sound of hammers knocking rust off ships' hulls. In this quarter of repair yards, the noise the work made became the name of the place. That accumulated character is part of why the series cast it as the gang's home ground.
How do I get to Yeongdo?
Yeongdo is an island, but it is bridged, so you reach it by bus. The Busan metro does not run onto it — you either take a bus from around Nampo-dong or Jungang-dong, or walk across Busan Bridge or Yeongdo Bridge. Busan Bridge, first on this list, is that entrance.
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