Ximxim (심심) is a DJ studio bar on the third floor of SFactory B in Seongsu-dong, the east-Seoul neighborhood that has become one of the city’s most interesting newer creative zones. The name means bored or listless in Korean — 심심 — which is either an ironic description of a bar that definitely is not boring, or an honest one about the emotional state the venue is designed to address. Either reading works. The space runs on the formula that the best small music bars in any city run on: good DJs, drinks, and a crowd that came because of the former.
The programming covers the house and electronic end of the DJ-bar spectrum, with events ranging from the intimate DJ-and-friends format that the space is built for to occasional larger events that use the SFactory complex’s broader capacity. Ximxim hosted a Mar Vista lifestream event in 2025, which locates it within the more internationally connected end of Seongsu’s music scene rather than the purely local bar circuit. The RA listing (ra.co/clubs/228419) gives a sense of the kind of programming the venue reaches for: electronic music that takes itself seriously without requiring a 400-capacity dancefloor to deliver it.
Seongsu as a context matters. The neighborhood has developed rapidly over the past five years into one of Seoul’s most interesting zones for the overlap between creative industries, food, and nightlife-adjacent culture — the equivalent of what Yeonnam-dong and Mangwon represented five years earlier. Ximxim is part of the wave of small, music-serious venues that have opened in Seongsu as the neighborhood’s creative identity has consolidated. It is not a club in the Itaewon sense, and it does not try to be: it is a DJ bar where the music is the point, the room is comfortable, and the nights run earlier and lighter than the underground circuit across the river.
Practically: hours run Wednesday and Thursday 7pm to midnight, Friday and Saturday 7pm to 1am. Find it at SFactory B, 3F, 성동구 연무장15길 11. Follow @ximxim_seoul and the RA listing for upcoming events.
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