Hizine

A free guide that connects filming locations from films, dramas and music videos to photos, maps and what you need to visit. All filming-location content is public, so nothing needs a login. Start from a title, see where each scene was shot, check the restaurants nearby, and save the places you want to go.

What It Is

Hizine is a filming-location magazine where you find out, with photos and maps, where a scene from a film, drama or music video was actually shot. It widens the fan experience beyond watching into a flow of "finding where it is, understanding why it matters, and deciding whether you can actually go". All filming-location content is public, with no locked pages.

The Problem

Many fans want to visit the place where a favorite scene was filmed. But the information is scattered and often inaccurate. Title information, location information and travel information live apart, which makes it hard to turn interest into a real trip.

Hizine was planned to keep the fan's emotional thread intact and connect finding a location to preparing a trip in one flow.

Who It Is For

Film and drama fans: people who want to find the real place where a favorite scene was shot
Travelers who like trips with a story: people who want visits with context rather than famous sights
Overseas fans who enjoy content and travel together: people who need to read in their own language and plan routes on a map

Core Flow

Start from a title: pick a film, drama or music video.
Understand the scene: photos and notes on each scene explain why the place is memorable.
Compare on a map: check the locations on a map and work out whether the route is doable.
Look around: check restaurants and places to rest near the location.
Save places to go: save titles and places on this device without signing in and come back to them later.

Key Features

Scene-level locations: each scene has photos, notes and a map, plus a fixed link that points straight to it.
Map exploration: a map for each title, and a full map showing every scene with confirmed coordinates.
Nearby food and rest: restaurants near the location sorted by rating, and nearby wellness spots from Korea Tourism Organization data.
Saved places: save to this browser without signing up, and filter the explore view to what you saved.
Magazine articles: articles that go beyond lists to explain titles and places.
People pages: filmographies of actors and directors credited on two or more titles.
Eight languages: Korean, English, Japanese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Thai, Indonesian and Malay.

Product Decisions

Turn fan immersion into travel action: maps and visit information sit right at the most emotional moment, when the fan revisits the scene.
Keep story and geography together: the page explains why the scene matters, not only where it is.
Remove the cost of saving: saving a place requires no sign-up. Nothing should come between the moment interest sparks and the moment you save it.
Say only what is known: map coordinates point to a place; they are neither proof that filming happened there nor permission to visit. The page separates what was confirmed from what was estimated.
Treat overseas fans as core users: so that overseas fans looking for Korean filming locations can read in their own language, the service runs in eight languages, including Southeast Asian ones.

Revenue Model

All filming-location content is free. The revenue slot is one ad in the notice shown once when leaving for an external site. That slot is connected to the family's shared ad sales (ads.mrlatte.net), so selling an ad never requires changing the page.

Next Hypotheses

Which language's fans use the map and saved places most deeply, so content in that language grows first.
Whether nearby food and wellness information keeps people on location pages longer.
Whether location pages gather enough visits for travel advertisers to buy the ad slot.