💈 Is This The Best Old Korean Barber Shop in Seoul For A Haircut? | 석조이발관 Stone Barbershop

During our time in South Korea, we met and filmed with a really awesome old school gentleman named Mr. Cho 💈❤️ He is the owner of the eclectic 석조이발관 Stone Barbershop in the 돈암동 Donam-dong neighborhood of Seoul 🇰🇷

While researching barbershops in Seoul, I found one photo online showing the exterior of a barbershop that looked interesting to me. When I visited the barbershop I immediately knew it was a one of a kind shop and the barber had a long interesting history.

Mr. Cho is 83 years old and is from a rural area in the southern part of Korea. Tragically, his parents passed away when he was 8 years old.

Alone in the world, he decided to travel to Seoul as he had heard people around him talking about there being work in the town.  He didn’t really comprehend where it was nor that it was the capital.

He smuggled himself onto a train he was told was going to Seoul and when the conductor came around asking for tickets, an older woman hid him under her long traditional Korean dress.

Once he arrived at Seoul Station, he was lost as he did not know anyone.  On his own and hungry, a man noticed him at the station and offered him a job.  It turned out the man had sold him to a local baker for labor and he had to work the debt off!

About a year later, not far from the bakery, he noticed a shop where men would enter with long messy hair and then reappear neatly groomed. It was a barbershop and it was this shop that first sparked his interest in barbering 💈

Stone Barbershop has been in business for over 50 years. It is actually a converted garage that was built into the side of an embankment. An underground staircase once connected the shop to a house above, and Mr Cho told us the owner of that house used to come down from his home for a haircut! 💇🏻‍♂️

The house has since been replaced by an apartment complex, and the staircase was blocked off.

Passionate about volunteer work, every week you will find Mr. Cho in the countryside giving free haircuts to senior citizens who are unable to travel to barbershops ❤️

Also, he enjoys recycling and reusing things. Mr. Cho finds things people throw away that still have use and he gives the items to people who need them or want them.

To see more of the videos we filmed in Korea, check out this playlist👇🏼
   • Barbershops of Korea 🇰🇷  

S P E C I A L T H A N K S

Mr Cho, Barber & Owner
석조이발관 - Stone Barbershop
30 Arirang-ro 6-gil, Seongbuk-gu,
Seoul, South Korea


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