Pungdong Anikol풍동 애니골

About

Pungdong Anikol is a food culture street designated by Gyeonggi-do Province, located in Goyang, a city of culture and the arts known for its beautiful lake and the scent of flowers. The origins of Anikol trace back to Baengma Station on the Gyeongui Line, remembered by those who were in their 20s in the 1970s and 80s as the place where they waited with their sweethearts, stamping their feet, for the train to Sinchon. When Ilsan New Town was developed in the early 1990s, most of the bars and cafés around Baengma Station disappeared. Within a few years, however, cafés and restaurants combining acoustic guitar performances with a variety of food opened one after another around Pungdong in Ilsan-gu, Goyang, about 2 km away, recreating the glory days of the Baengma café village and bringing back old memories. Anikol is also called Aehyeongol Street, after Aehyeon Village, the old name of the Pungdong area. According to village elders, the name Anikol came about as locals pronounced the name as it sounded, shifting from Aehyeongol to Aeingol and finally to Anikol.