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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 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 0Noryangjin Fish Market
A place where you can meet the sea in the middle of Seoul, far from the coast. Noryangjin Fish Market is located at Noryangjin Station on Subway Lines 1 and 9. Seafood from all over the country gathers here and is transp
0 0Itaewon Street
Itaewon is a place where people of different nationalities and ethnicities gather. You can taste foods from around the world and see an exotic mosque. As U.S. military bases were established in the past, this area develo
0 0Dongmyo Flea Market
Dongmyo Flea Market began in the late 1980s. Although it has shrunk considerably compared with its former reputation, it still gathers all kinds of rare items. It covers everything from clothing, shoes, and wallets to wa
0 0Hyundai Department Store Trade Center Branch
Connected to COEX Mall in Samseong-dong, Hyundai Department Store Trade Center Branch follows a sleek, urban concept and offers a wide variety of well-known Korean brands and overseas luxury brands. Overseas fashion bran
0 0Insadong-gil
Insadong remains one of Seoul’s signature streets. It is the street most visited by foreign tourists, and a neighborhood where tradition runs so deep that even Starbucks once changed its sign to Hangul. Antique shops hav
0 0Apgujeong Rodeo Street: how to shop Seoul's original luxury-fashion beauty district
Across the street from Galleria Department Store's Luxury Hall runs an L-shaped strip about 422 meters long: Apgujeong Rodeo Street. It got its name from Beverly Hills' Rodeo Drive, and it became Korea's first real fashi
0 0Staying in Jongno: Jongno 3-ga or 5-ga, and would you book a Korean motel?
A first-timer on the Tripadvisor Seoul forum had settled on Jongno and was choosing between two private-room stays, one near Jongno 3-ga station and one near Jongno 5-ga. The second had the nicer room, but they had read
0 0Bukchon Hunters Gourmet Outing Playlist
Bukchon is a neighborhood where the atmosphere of old alleys coexists with the individuality of small business owners. Only when you meet the small shops filled with Bukchon’s own craft, tastes, and stories do you see th
0 0I'PARK Mall
I'PARK Mall is Korea’s first mixed-use shopping mall, located in Yongsan, a mecca for shopping. It is fully equipped with shopping, cultural, and dining facilities. Because you can buy quality products at reasonable pric
0 0AK& Hongdae: a floor-by-floor guide to Seoul's youth mall by Hongik University
AK& Hongdae is the five-floor mall right at Exit 4 of Hongik University Station, the same corner K-pop fans, streetwear shoppers and late-night Hongdae crowds have used as a meeting point for years. Unlike the standalone
0 0Olive Young Hongdae Town: what's on each floor and what you can actually try
Olive Young Hongdae Town opened on April 26, 2024 at the entrance to Hongdae's "Walking Street," built as an experience-first store rather than a plain shelf-and-checkout shop. At three floors and roughly 991 square mete
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