A dark, masculine cellar near Itaewon with close to 400 whiskies, cigars, and a steakhouse one floor up.
Published Mar 24, 2026 By Priya Nair Address 3 Daesagwan-ro 12-gil, Hannam-dong, Yongsan-gu, Seoul 04403 Nearest Transit Hangangjin Station, Line 6, about a 10 minute walk through Hannam-dong Hours Mon 8:00pm – 5:00am Tue 8:00pm – 5:00am Wed 8:00pm – 5:00am Thu 8:00pm – 5:00am Fri 8:00pm – 5:00am Sat 8:00pm – 5:00am Sun 8:00pm – 5:00am Good For Single-malt drinkers, late-night nightcaps, cigar and whisky pairings Single malt Speakeasy Cigars Late night Old Fashioned Visit Vault +82 Suggest an edit Ask the editors Reservations are handled by the bar directly. Tell them barsforKings sent you.
Vault +82 sits below street level in Hannam-dong, the foreigner-heavy stretch of Yongsan-gu just east of Itaewon, and it makes no attempt to be subtle about what it is. This is a whisky bar first. The back bar runs to close to 400 bottles, weighted heavily toward single malts, and the room is built around them: dark wood, low light, deep seating, and a cigar selection for anyone settling in for the long haul.
It is not cheap, and the reviews that knock it tend to land on price rather than the pour. What you are paying for is range and a room that takes whisky seriously. The Spirits Business named Vault +82 among its top five Seoul bars, which is the kind of trade endorsement that separates a serious cellar from a hotel lobby with a Macallan shelf.
Worth knowing before you go: the American-style Vault Steakhouse sits one floor up, dry-aging USDA beef, so the building works as a full evening rather than a single stop. For where Vault +82 lands among the city's serious pours, see our Seoul whisky bar guide and the wider Seoul whiskey bar roundup.
The space leans masculine and clubby: dark wood, dim amber light, and bottle-lined walls that double as the menu. Seating is comfortable and built for staying put, which suits a bar where the move is a slow flight rather than a quick round.
Because it opens at 8pm and runs until 5am, the character shifts across the night. Early on it reads as a quiet after-dinner room; later it fills with the Itaewon and Hannam late crowd looking for one more serious dram before last call.