Seoul’s nightlife runs on three districts: Hongdae for cheap, loud, student-driven chaos; Itaewon for international crowds and the underground rooms that grew up around Cakeshop; Gangnam for big-room spectacle and bottle service. Most nights out fit one of those three moods, and this guide walks each neighborhood venue by venue.
Seoul Nightlife in 60 Seconds
- Where: Hongdae for young, loud, cheap nights in every genre; Itaewon, with Haebangchon and Gyeongnidan up the hill, for international crowds and underground house and techno; Gangnam for big commercial clubs and table service. Euljiro, Jongno, Yeonnam-dong and Seongsu are for small bars, wine and listening rooms rather than big dance floors.
- When: Most clubs open between 10pm and midnight, fill up between 1am and 3am, and on weekends many run until 6am or later. Eat and drink first, then arrive after midnight.
- Getting home: The last subway, 막차 (makcha), reaches the end of most lines around 1am on weeknights and around midnight on weekends and holidays, and the first train, 첫차 (cheotcha), starts around 5:30am (as of 2026). In between, it is a Kakao T taxi, an N night bus, or staying out until the first train.
- Age and ID: Entry and drinking follow the Youth Protection Act’s birth-year rule, so you qualify from 1 January of the year you turn 19. In 2026 that means anyone born in 2007 or earlier. Foreign visitors should carry a physical passport, since most doors will not take a foreign driving licence or a photo of a passport.
- Cover: Roughly 10,000 to 30,000 won at most clubs, sometimes with a drink included, and more for big Gangnam nights. Carry some cash for smaller rooms. There is no tipping.
- Dress: Hongdae and Itaewon are relaxed. Gangnam and Apgujeong expect proper shoes and no streetwear.
- Dancing in bars: Whether customers may dance in a Korean bar depends on how that business is registered, so if in doubt, ask the venue (why some bars post a no dancing sign).
I have been DJing in Seoul since the early 2000s, which means I have watched this city rebuild its nightlife from scratch at least twice. Once after the Burning Sun scandal hollowed out Gangnam and sent its clubbers scattering to neighborhoods they would previously have ignored. And again after COVID cleared out Itaewon so completely that walking through it in 2021 felt like being on a film set after the crew had packed up and gone home.
Both times, what came back was more interesting than what it replaced. That is the thing about Seoul. It does not mourn its old nightlife scenes for very long. It cannibalises them and builds something stranger and better in the rubble.
I have played sets in basement rooms where the crowd was entirely Korean and entirely there for the music. I have headlined Chuseok events in rooftop venues where half the guest list arrived by chauffeured car. I have played to twelve people in a converted metalworking shop in Mullae-dong at 3am and to a couple of thousand in Hongdae on a summer Friday. Seoul has a different nightlife scene for every version of the night you are trying to have, and the trick is knowing which neighborhood to be in before you start.
This guide treats each district as the distinct thing it actually is, because Hongdae is not Itaewon is not Gangnam is not the unmarked techno spot near Euljiro that you only hear about through someone’s Kakao group chat. If you want to go out well in this city, geography is the first thing you need to understand. For the full picture of how the economics and politics of Seoul’s club scene have shifted in recent years, the Beats and Business piece goes considerably deeper than this guide can.
The Best Clubs in Seoul Right Now, Area by Area
These are the rooms with a real programme behind them, checked against their Resident Advisor listings in September 2026. Door times, covers and lineups change every week, so treat the listing for the night as the final word.
Itaewon (이태원): the underground core
Cakeshop is the basement that made Seoul a regular stop for touring DJs. It has been open since around 2012, holds about 200 people, and books international house, techno, bass and left field names alongside a deep bench of local residents. Soap reopened in a new room at 217 Itaewon-ro on 26 February 2026 and still does what it did from 2017: house and disco one night, bass or hip hop the next, with the same crowd coming to both.
For techno, Faust sits on the third floor at 7 Bogwang-ro 60-gil, a room for about 250 people that has been running its own nights since 2014. Volnost on Itaewon-ro has been open since April 2017, with a bar on the first floor and music only on the second, and a Martin Audio rig that punches well above the size of the room. Nyapi, on the third floor at 187 Itaewon-ro, opened in August 2022 and books a wide mix of local crews and touring DJs.
Usadan-ro (우사단로): the hill above Itaewon
Walk up past the mosque and two more rooms are worth the climb. teller is a basement at 39 Usadan-ro that runs mostly on Fridays and Saturdays from 11pm to 6am. Kockiri, run by Maktoop on the fourth floor at 46 Usadan-ro, is open most nights from Wednesday to Sunday and mixes DJ nights with talks and listening sessions.
Hongdae and Mapo (홍대, 마포): rooftops and big weekends
Hongdae is mostly hip hop and commercial rooms that change names often, so pick by the lineup rather than the sign. The serious dance music room on this side of the river is Modeci, on the fifth floor and rooftop of the Henz Club building. It opened in 2017 and books disco, house and techno from local and international DJs, usually from 10pm until 4am or 5am.
Gangnam (강남): big rooms and table service
Gangnam clubs are large, polished and commercial, with EDM, hip hop and table service. Names and owners have changed a great deal since 2019, and why the megaclubs faded is its own story. Go for the production, dress up, and expect a higher cover than anywhere north of the river.
Euljiro and the listening bars (을지로)
For a quieter night built around records rather than a dance floor, start with the Hipjiro bars of Euljiro and the city’s vinyl listening bars. For every room on one page, the Seoul club map keeps the addresses together, and Hongdae vs Itaewon vs Gangnam helps you pick a district before you pick a club.
Hongdae: Where Seoul’s Youth Goes to Lose Itself
Hongdae takes its name from Hongik University, and the neighborhood grew up around the university’s art and design programs in a way that shaped everything that came after. In the 1990s, when Korea’s indie and underground music scenes were looking for somewhere to exist outside the commercial mainstream, this was where they ended up. The rents were cheap, the landlords were tolerant, and the alleyways were just disorganized enough that small clubs and rehearsal spaces could survive without attracting too much attention.
That energy is still there, even though the neighborhood has changed enormously. Hongdae today is one of the most densely packed nightlife zones in Asia. The streets between midnight and 4am on a Friday look like the footage you see from New Year’s Eve in other cities, except it looks like this every single week. Buskers set up on the main roads. Dance teams perform in the parks. K-pop tourists mix with university students mix with club kids who have been coming here since the early 2000s and will tell you, absolutely correctly, that it was better then.
The crowd is young, bold, and operating at full volume. The music policy depends entirely on the room. You will find hip-hop clubs, EDM rooms, indie live venues, electronic dance floors running deep house at 130bpm, and karaoke bars that shake the street outside with reverb. There is no single Hongdae sound because Hongdae has never had the attention span for that.
What Hongdae does have, consistently, is energy. Pure, slightly chaotic, unapologetic energy. If you are coming to Seoul for the first time and you want to understand what the city’s nightlife feels like at its most unfiltered, this is where you start. Just know that the doors at some venues enforce an unofficial age policy that skews younger than you might expect, and that cash is still king at many spots that have not updated their payment systems since 2015. The Partying Traveler’s Hongdae guide is a solid companion resource for specific venue recommendations if you want a curated shortlist before you arrive.
Yeonnam-dong: The Sophisticated Side of Student Territory
Yeonnam-dong sits just northwest of Hongdae’s main drag, separated from the chaos by a few blocks and an entirely different atmosphere. It found its identity in the 2010s when young professionals and creatives started looking for somewhere quieter, somewhere where the cocktail was made properly and you could actually hear the person sitting across from you.
The tree lined streets attracted independent bar owners and specialty coffee people who wanted to build something more considered than what was happening next door. What they built is exactly that. By day, Yeonnam-dong is specialty coffee and quiet brunches. By night, the same cozy spaces become intimate wine bars and craft cocktail lounges that attract a crowd in their late twenties and thirties, people who have outgrown Hongdae’s noise but have not signed up for Gangnam’s status games.
I used to end nights here after playing late sets in Hongdae. There is a particular pleasure in walking from a room where you have been running the sound for three hours into somewhere that is playing something at a volume that allows actual conversation. Yeonnam-dong is built for that transition. It is where the night slows down without ending.
Itaewon: International, Inclusive, and Still Standing
Itaewon grew up around the US Army base after the Korean War, and that military proximity shaped it into the most deliberately multicultural neighborhood in Seoul. International food, global fashion, and progressive values settled here early and stayed. The result is a neighborhood that has always felt slightly outside the mainstream of Seoul social life, which for a long time was exactly what made it interesting.
The 2022 crowd crush changed the neighborhood in ways that are still being processed. A lot of the venues that survived COVID did not survive the aftermath of October 29th. The foot traffic dropped sharply in the months that followed, and some of the businesses that had been anchoring the area for years made quiet decisions to close or relocate. What is there now is smaller and different, but the spirit of the place remains. Itaewon is still the go-to district for expats, tourists, queer communities, and anyone looking for something beyond the commercial mainstream.
The practical thing to know is timing. Itaewon clubs do not reach peak until well after midnight, often closer to 1am. If you arrive at 10pm you will be standing in a room that is at about twenty percent capacity and wondering what all the fuss is about. The standard move is to start the evening somewhere in Gyeongnidan or Haebangchon, eat something proper, work through a couple of cocktails at places where the bar staff actually know what they are doing, and then descend into the Itaewon main strip once the night has built up properly underneath you. Resident Advisor’s Seoul guide keeps a regularly updated list of the underground electronic venues worth tracking in this part of the city, including rooms like Faust and Paper that define what Seoul’s club culture looks like at its most serious.
Gyeongnidan and Haebangchon: Where Good Nights Actually Begin
These two neighborhoods sit tucked behind Itaewon’s main strip, climbing toward Namsan Mountain, and they have quietly become some of the best early evening destinations in the city. Gyeongnidan in particular has the kind of density of good independent bars that you usually only find in cities with much longer histories of craft cocktail culture.
Expat bartenders who trained abroad and came to Seoul to build something opened here because the rents made sense and the clientele was curious. The result is a cluster of bars where the whisky selection is serious, the Korean spirit experimentation is genuine, and nobody is playing music at a volume that prevents the drinks from being appreciated properly. Come here for dinner, come here to start the evening, come here for the kind of conversation that is impossible once a room gets past a certain decibel level. Then, when the city has warmed up properly, walk down the hill toward Itaewon and let the night get louder.
Gangnam: Sleek, Status Driven, and Worth Understanding
Gangnam is several different neighborhoods wearing the same designer label, and it is important to understand the difference between them before you arrive.
The district became Korea’s symbol of wealth and aspiration during the 1970s and 80s development boom, when the government relocated offices south of the Han River and the money followed. PSY’s Gangnam Style in 2012 gave the outside world a shorthand for everything the area represents, but the actual experience of going out here is more nuanced than any pop culture reference can capture.
The nightlife is polished, expensive, and operating according to a set of unspoken social rules that can be disorienting if you do not know them. Table service is the norm in most of the serious venues. Being seen matters as much as what you are drinking. The music tends toward the commercial and the accessible. Understanding Gangnam is not about enjoying it the way you would enjoy Hongdae or Euljiro. It is about watching one version of Seoul’s social machinery in motion. The Beats and Business analysis covers how the economics of table service and minimum spend transformed Gangnam’s nightlife in the years after the Burning Sun era, if you want the full context behind what you are walking into.
Apgujeong: Where Looks Do the Heavy Lifting
Apgujeong Rodeo Street has become Seoul’s most design conscious drinking neighborhood over the last few years. What started as a luxury shopping and plastic surgery corridor has evolved into something stranger and more interesting: a row of speakeasies, concept bars, and designer cafes that transform into cocktail lounges after dark. The aesthetic is minimal and expensive. The clientele dresses accordingly.
If you are going to Apgujeong, you are going somewhere that requires looking like you belong. That means clean lines, nothing loud, and no streetwear. The door policies at the better venues are partly about what you are wearing and partly about whether you have made a reservation. Some of the most interesting spots in this strip are intentionally unlisted. You find them through local contacts or through the kind of Seoul Instagram account that posts locations three months after everyone who matters has already been.
Cheongdam: Seoul’s VIP Room
Cheongdam is where the Apgujeong ethos reaches its logical endpoint. Fewer clubs, smaller crowds, significantly higher minimums. This is where celebrities, executives, and K-pop industry figures disappear into private rooms with imported spirit menus and lighting that has been engineered to make everyone look better than they actually do.
Walking into Cheongdam’s best venues without a Korean contact who can vouch for you is an exercise in optimism that usually ends at the door. If you do get in, do not take photos. Privacy is treated as seriously as the bill, and both will arrive faster than you expect.
Gangnam Station: The Commercial Pulse
The area around Gangnam Station is Gangnam’s most accessible face. The venues are bigger, louder, and more willing to admit foreigners without an introduction. The music leans toward EDM and commercial house. The crowd is younger office workers unwinding alongside university students and the kind of tourists who came to Seoul specifically to say they went clubbing in Gangnam. It is a good time. It is just a different good time than the one Apgujeong offers.
Seongsu: Seoul’s Creative Quarter
Seongsu earned the Brooklyn of Seoul comparison by doing exactly what Brooklyn did: taking a formerly industrial neighborhood full of disused factory space and turning it into a canvas for the city’s creative class. Shoe factories and auto repair shops became design studios, coffee laboratories, and gallery spaces across the 2010s. The result is a neighborhood that pulses with a particular kind of self-conscious cool.
The nightlife here is not about dancing until 5am. Seongsu is wine bars and listening rooms and concept spaces where the playlist is curated as carefully as the furniture. The crowd is design conscious, digitally connected, and generally more interested in the aesthetic of the evening than its duration. It is somewhere to come before a proper night out, or as the quieter half of a night that started somewhere more intense.
Want to know what Seoul’s next trend is before it arrives? Walk around Seongsu on a Saturday afternoon. There is a line outside an unmarked shop you have never heard of. You will want to know what is inside it. Wander Seoul’s Seongsu guide breaks down the neighborhood’s current bar and cafe landscape well if you want a shortlist before you go.
Konkuk University: The Anti-Seongsu
Just east of Seongsu, the area around Konkuk University operates at an entirely different frequency. This is where university students go for cheap beer, grilled chicken skewers, arcade games, and the particular kind of noise that happens when a lot of young people are releasing a week of pressure simultaneously. The drinks are affordable, the bars are rarely subtle, and nobody is thinking about the playlist.
If Seongsu is a carefully considered Tuesday, Konkuk is an unplanned Friday that ends with tteokbokki at 4am and a story you did not see coming. Both have their place.
Euljiro and Jongno: Retro Seoul Meets Something Harder to Name
Euljiro was Seoul’s printing and metalwork district for most of the twentieth century. The neon signs advertising welding shops and print houses are still there, layered now under a new generation of small bars that young Seoulites opened precisely because of that industrial texture. The old is not being erased here. It is being drunk next to.
The natural wine bars and makgeolli spots that opened in Euljiro’s alleys over the last decade made deliberate choices about their surroundings. The aesthetic is analog and deliberately rough. Vinyl spins on proper decks. The cocktail menus reference Korean food culture instead of borrowing from New York or Tokyo. It feels like Seoul drinking in its own language rather than translating from somewhere else.
The practical warning is that these places are genuinely difficult to find. No signs. Naver Maps rather than Google. Sometimes a door code. The smallness is part of the point. Get there early or be prepared to wait outside in an alley listening to the music bleeding through the door, deciding that the wait is probably worth it. It usually is.
Jongno runs alongside Euljiro and carries different histories. This is the heart of Joseon era Seoul and the home of Korea’s LGBTQ+ club scene, centered around Jongno 3-ga. The venues here are unpretentious, affordable, and run on community loyalty. If Cheongdam is Seoul showing off its money, Jongno 3-ga is Seoul showing off something rarer: a neighborhood that belongs to the people who need it.
Mullae-dong: Industrial Grit and the Underground Art Scene
The two queer scenes have long worked differently. Han Yu-seok’s 2013 study in Seoul Studies (서울도시연구) found the bars of Itaewon’s fire station alley unusually open, with owners running gay and trans bars in plain view, and contrasted them with the more closed male queer spaces around Nakwon-dong in Jongno.
Both are also on the way up after dark. A 2025 study of Seoul’s night-time economy in the Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea, using business and living population data, named the Konkuk University area and Seongsu among the commercial districts growing at night, while Sinchon, Dongdaemun and Sindang were relatively declining.
Mullae-dong is in Yeongdeungpo-gu, southwest Seoul, and it is genuinely the least polished neighborhood on this list. Welding shops still operate during the day. The smell of hot metal is still present on the air. And somewhere in between those working spaces are some of the most interesting bars and performance venues in the city.
Artists and musicians started moving into Mullae-dong in the late 2000s because the rent was low enough to make experimentation affordable. What they built is still there, operating in deliberate contrast to everywhere else on this list. If Gangnam is where you go to be seen, Mullae-dong is where you go to disappear into something that is still being figured out. The best nights here feel like accidents that turned out better than anything planned.
Cash only at most spots. Get lost in the alleys deliberately. Respect that people still weld and fabricate things in this neighborhood during daylight hours, and the bars that exist here are guests in a working district rather than the reason for its existence. For a sense of the full team that makes any good Seoul night possible, from the DJs running the room to the sound engineers and promoters working behind the scenes, the Unsung Heroes post gives you the picture that most nightlife guides skip entirely.
Practical Things Nobody Tells You Before You Go Out in Seoul
Peak hours run late. Most serious clubs do not reach capacity until 1am or later. Arriving at 10pm means paying the cover for a room that has not started yet. The standard approach is to eat well, drink slowly somewhere in your neighborhood of choice, and arrive at the actual club around midnight or after.
Cash is still relevant in ways that catch people off guard. Many smaller venues, particularly in Euljiro, Mullae-dong, and parts of Hongdae, operate cash only at the door. Having twenty to thirty thousand won in your pocket before you start the evening saves the specific awkwardness of standing at a booth while the person behind you waits. And there is no tipping culture in Korea at bars or clubs, which comes as a pleasant surprise the first time you realize it.
Kakao T is the taxi app you want. Foreigners can register with an international card. It works properly and avoids the communication problems that can arise when you are trying to explain an address at 3am to a driver who speaks no English and you speak no Korean. Taxis in Seoul are genuinely affordable even late at night, and splitting one between three or four people between districts barely registers on the bill.
Bring your passport, not your driving license. Seoul clubs are strict about ID and most will not accept anything other than a passport from a foreign visitor. Leave the driving license in the hotel.
The language gap is real but navigable. Seoul has improved considerably in terms of English-speaking staff at international venues, but in local spots across Euljiro, Jongno, and Mullae-dong you should expect to manage with a translation app and good manners. Learning a few words of Korean does a disproportionate amount of work in terms of how you are received. Thank you is 감사합니다 (gamsahamnida). Excuse me is 실례합니다 (sillyehamnida). Use both freely.
Door policies vary widely and are not always rational. Age limits, dress codes, and foreigner policies exist on a spectrum from clearly posted to entirely arbitrary. The venues that cater primarily to Korean clientele are entitled to those preferences, and arguing at the door is both useless and rude. Move on. Seoul has enough options that no single door matters.
If you are visiting during festival season and want to extend the experience beyond the city’s club circuit, the Korea DJ Festival guide covers everything from World DJ Festival and EDC Korea through to the smaller boutique events that are worth the trip even if you have never heard of them. And if you are a DJ thinking about protecting your hearing in rooms that run loud, the Sound Advice post is the most thorough thing on this site on that specific subject.
For anyone arriving as a DJ looking to play rather than just attend, the complete guide to South Korea’s club scene on Resident Advisor is the best single external resource for understanding the booking landscape, the venues, and the producers shaping the underground right now.
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Frequently Asked Questions About Going Out in Seoul
What are the best neighborhoods for nightlife in Seoul?
It depends entirely on what kind of night you are looking for. Hongdae is best for high energy clubbing with a young crowd across multiple genres. Itaewon is the most international and inclusive district and home to the city’s strongest underground electronic scene. Gangnam offers polished, status conscious experiences ranging from Gangnam Station’s accessible clubs through to Cheongdam’s private rooms. Euljiro and Jongno are for smaller, more local venues rooted in the city’s actual character. Seongsu is wine bar culture rather than dancing. Mullae-dong is for the genuinely underground. Most good Seoul nights involve at least two of these districts across the course of an evening.
When do Seoul clubs open and what time do they get busy?
Most clubs open between 10pm and midnight, but peak hours are reliably between 1am and 3am. The standard Seoul night starts with food and drinks before midnight, then transitions to a club after midnight. Many rooms run until 6am or beyond on weekends. Plan accordingly and do not burn your energy early.
Do Seoul clubs have cover charges and do they take cards?
Cover charges range from around 10,000 won at smaller underground venues to 30,000 won or more at larger Gangnam clubs. Many venues in Hongdae and the underground circuit still operate cash only at the door. Larger Gangnam venues generally accept cards. Carry cash regardless, and remember there is no tipping culture at Korean bars or clubs.
Is Seoul nightlife safe for foreigners?
Seoul is genuinely one of the safer cities in the world for going out. The risks are standard ones: keeping track of your belongings in crowded spaces, staying with your group late at night, being aware of how much you are drinking. The city’s subway stops running around midnight and restarts around 5:30am, so late nights either end with taxis or continue all the way through to morning. Use Kakao T for taxis. It is reliable, affordable, and available in English.
What is the dress code for Seoul clubs?
It depends on the neighborhood. Hongdae is relaxed and expressive. Itaewon is generally tolerant of most styles. Gangnam and Apgujeong require proper shoes and nothing that reads as streetwear. Cheongdam has expectations that some Western clubbers find alarming. The rule of thumb is simple: the further south of the Han River you are, the more your appearance is being assessed before you reach the door.
What is Seoul’s underground electronic music scene like?
It is genuinely strong and has been for longer than most international coverage acknowledges. The underground scene across Itaewon, Euljiro, and Mullae-dong runs deep house, techno, and experimental electronic music with a community of local DJs and producers who are world class but largely unknown outside Korea. Venues like Faust and Paper are the benchmarks. The crowds are serious about the music, the rooms are small, and the experience is entirely different from the commercial circuit in Gangnam. For the full picture of how Seoul’s club culture developed economically and culturally, the Beats and Business piece is the most thorough thing I have written on the subject.
How does Seoul nightlife compare to other Asian cities?
Seoul sits alongside Tokyo, Shanghai, and Bangkok as one of Asia’s genuinely world class nightlife cities, but with a character distinct from all of them. Tokyo runs deeper and more technically serious in its underground scenes. Bangkok and Bali have exploded as festival destinations. Shanghai’s commercial club scene is larger and more international. What Seoul has that the others do not is a specific tension between the commercial and the underground that produces interesting things in the friction zone between them. Resident Advisor’s full South Korea guide is the best external resource for tracking what is happening in the underground right now, and their Seoul club listings are updated regularly.
Do I need to bring a passport to get into Seoul clubs?
Yes. Most Seoul clubs will not accept a driving license or any form of ID other than a passport from a foreign visitor. Keep it on you for the night.
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Seoul Nightlife: Quick Answers
Is Seoul safe for a night out? Yes, Seoul is one of the safest big cities in the world to go out in. Petty crime is rare, streets stay busy until dawn, and the main risks are the ordinary ones: your own soju intake and the taxi queue at 4am.
Do you need to speak Korean? No. In Hongdae and Itaewon you can get through a whole night in English, door staff, bartenders and lineups are used to it. A polite annyeonghaseyo goes a long way, but nobody expects fluency.
Can you drink in public in Seoul? Yes, drinking outdoors is legal, which is why the convenience-store table is a genuine Seoul nightlife institution. Pre-drink at a GS25, then head in.
Which area should you stay in for nightlife? Stay in Hongdae if you want to stumble home from student bars and clubs; Itaewon or Haebangchon if your night ends at Cakeshop or Soap; Gangnam only if bottle service is the plan. All three are on the subway, but trains stop around midnight and restart at 5:30am, plan the gap.
Does Uber work in Seoul? Use Kakao T instead. It is the app every taxi actually runs on. Uber exists here as UT but pulls from the same taxi fleet. Cards work almost everywhere, but I still carry some cash for small bars and cover charges at the door.
Sources
- Shin Ji-min, Hong Chan-young, Lee Ga-in and Woo Young-jin, Regional demand for Seoul’s night-time economy, Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea 28(1), 2025
- Han Yu-seok (한유석), Sexual minorities and community making in Itaewon’s fire station street, Seoul Studies 14(1), 2013
Written from Seoul, by someone who has been in the booth for more than twenty years. More on the site, or book a DJ.
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