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The Hyundai Seoul
The Hyundai Seoul is the largest shopping mall in Seoul, covering an area the size of 13 soccer fields. Built in 2021, this mall offers shoppers a spacious and diverse shopping experience, along with excellent rest areas
0 0Seoul's Climate Card for visitors: short passes stay, the 30-day one goes
Seoul is reshuffling its unlimited transit cards this autumn, and a lot of travellers have asked whether the tourist version is affected. According to the Seoul city site, the short-term passes remain. Short-term pass pr
0 0Dongdaemun Shopping Town
Dongdaemun Shopping Town is one of Seoul’s best shopping streets. Large shopping complexes lined up here cover both wholesale and retail. Shinpyeonghwa Fashion Town, Fashion Nam Pyeonghwa, Pyeonghwa Market, and Dongpyeon
0 0AMOREPACIFIC / K-Beauty Makeup Class
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0 0Landing in Seoul at dawn: where do you get breakfast and watch the city wake up?
A family arriving in Seoul around 7:30 in the morning, with small children tired from the flight, asked on the Tripadvisor Seoul forum: where is a good place to watch the city come to life, and is there a market known fo
0 0Seoul Forest Atelier-gil: the café and fashion street next to the park
Atelier-gil is the street running along the edge of Seoul Forest that's been reshaped since early 2026 into a fashion- and lifestyle-focused shopping strip, driven by a public-private project between Musinsa and Seongdon
0 0Seoul Yangnyeong Market
Seoul Yangnyeong Market is Korea’s largest comprehensive Korean medicine complex, with more than 800 herbal medicine-related shops. All kinds of medicinal ingredients from across the country gather here. Seoul Yangnyeong
0 0Shopping in Myeong-dong
Myeong-dong is regaining its former fame as major brands aggressively open key stores in the commercial district. The area becomes even busier when Japan’s Golden Week begins in late April and early May. Lotte Department
0 0How many days does a first trip to Seoul need? Vote
From Latin America or Spain, getting to Korea means long flights and often layovers. So on travel forums the big question is: how many days are worth it for a first trip? The positions you see most: Under a week: only if
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0 0First beauty shopping day in Seoul: Myeongdong, Seongsu or Hongdae?
Each Seoul neighbourhood has a very different feel for beauty shopping. Here's roughly what travel forums keep saying: Myeongdong: road shops and big stores packed together, so it's great for comparing a lot in one go. I
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0 0Ssamzigil
Ssamzigil was newly created in 2004 based on Insadong’s distinctive character, long known as one of Seoul’s representative traditional streets. Ssamzigil is a shopping mall with traditional and modern crafts, and a compl
0 02023 Seoul Hallyu Travel Guide “Person:able Seoul”
When deciding to travel and choosing a destination, the most common next step is gathering information about the place. Travelers search for what kind of city it is, must-see attractions, foods, and shopping items. Thoug
0 0Chasing viral Seoul food: worth the queue or a waste of trip time?
Every few months a new dessert or snack goes viral from Seoul, and travel threads fill up with the same debate: is it worth planning a day around it? The case for chasing it It is part of the fun of being in Seoul while
0 0Amore Flagship Store (Seongsu)
Amorepacific, a well-known cosmetics manufacturer, is headquartered in Seongsu. This three-story building, once used as an auto repair factory, has been reborn as more than a shop, into a complex cultural space. The area
0 0Seoul and Busan in one trip: how many days would you give each?
“Is Busan worth adding?” is one of the most common planning questions for a first Korea trip, followed straight away by how to split the days. What people usually weigh Travel time: the KTX makes it a comfortable train r
0 076.8% of Japanese visitors go to Seoul. Will "30 Small Cities" change that?
The Japan Association of Travel Agents (JATA) and the Korea Tourism Organization announced a joint plan to ease Seoul's pull on Japanese travellers. Key points from Travel Voice: Where things stand 76.8% of Japanese visi
0 0Yeonmujang-gil in Seongsu-dong | A Trendy Culture Street
Yeonmujang-gil in Seongsu-dong is a culture street in Seongdong-gu, Seoul, where the legacy of its industrial era, when shoe factories once stood close together, now meets a contemporary urban mood. The name “Yeonmujang”
0 0LCDC Seoul: what's on each floor of Seongsu's converted garage
LCDC Seoul is a four-floor culture and shopping complex built inside a former car repair garage, run by SJ Group and named after the fashion label LE CONTE DES CONTES, roughly "a story within a story." By July 2025 the s
0 0Seoul after midnight: what's actually open once the subway stops?
Seoul has a reputation as a city that never sleeps, but travellers often get caught out when the subway stops running around midnight. So what is really open late, and how do people get home? What people usually find ope
0 0Seoul beauty pop-ups: a checklist so you don't show up for nothing
Brand pop-up stores in Seongsu, Hannam or The Hyundai Seoul often run for a few days, a few weeks at most. That's why travellers so often post "it had already closed" or "the line was too long, I gave up." Here are the t
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