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Dongdaemun 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 0Incheon Airport duty-free beauty: where to pick up what you pre-ordered
If you pre-ordered cosmetics or perfume from a Korean duty-free operator before your flight out of Incheon, this is the practical guide to actually collecting it: which pickup counter, on which floor, in which terminal,
0 0Seongsu Kuoca | A Fresh Handmade Skincare Experience
Kuoca draws its name from the Italian word for chef, cuoca, and reflects the idea of conveying refined flavors with a chef’s sincerity, much like fine dining, to delight all five senses. Instead of mass-produced goods, t
0 0Musinsa Terrace Seongsu
Musinsa Terrace Seongsu is a fashion and culture space where you can experience brands carried on Musinsa, Korea’s leading online fashion platform, up close. Blending fashion with culture, the venue stages a range of bra
0 0Dongdaemun General Market
Opened in 1970, Dongdaemun General Market has shared the joys and sorrows of Dongdaemun Market for more than 40 years. It is a large specialty market selling fabric for clothing, clothing notions, accessories, and some b
0 0Monami Store Seongsu: DIY Stationery and Ink Lab in Seongsu-dong
Monami FACTORY, which first opened in Seongsu-dong in 1963, has now been transformed into Monami Store Seongsu. Here, you can get hands-on with Monami products and enjoy a more personal experience by making your own DIY
0 0Olive Young N Seongsu: what's inside and how to shop it
Olive Young N Seongsu is the chain's biggest single store and its test bed for what a K-beauty flagship can be, according to https://www.glowolive.net/ko/oliveyoung-n-seongsu/. Set inside the Factorial Seongsu building,
0 1Centre Pompidou Hanwha Seoul at 63 Square: a museum where the aquarium used to be
The aquarium that ran inside Seoul's 63 Building for nearly 39 years closed for good in June 2024, and that space has now been rebuilt into a brand-new museum: Centre Pompidou Hanwha, opening June 4, 2026, inside 63 Squa
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 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 0Amorepacific Museum of Art (APMA) in Yongsan: what's on and how to get in
Inside Amorepacific's headquarters in Yongsan sits APMA, the Amorepacific Museum of Art — a serious contemporary-art space that happens to share a building with a cosmetics giant. It's an easy add-on to a Seoul beauty or
0 0K-beauty is No. 1 in Japan’s cosmetics imports for a 4th year, but growth fell from 40% to 5.6%
Korean cosmetics held the top spot in Japan's imported cosmetics market for a fourth straight year, but the pace cooled sharply. Japan's imported cosmetics market in 2025 Korea's share: 30.8%, about ¥141.77B (up 0.5 poin
0 0National Museum of Korea's own gift shop: what Muds is and where to find it
The National Museum of Korea is the country's largest museum, with free permanent-collection admission and Yongsan Family Park right next door, so many visitors pair it with the nearby Amorepacific Museum of Art in one d
0 0Enjoy Myeongdong, where K-beauty and K-pop meet
Norazo, the male duo loved for their unique style, and GHOST9, the nine-member boy group, rewrote Norazo’s signature song “Superman” for Play with Seoul, a promotional video for the Seoul Tourism Special Zone. Here are t
0 0Seochon and Tongui-dong: wandering Seoul’s quietest historic alleys
Seochon, tucked against the western wall of Gyeongbokgung, is one of Seoul's oldest neighborhoods, and unlike Bukchon it hasn't turned into a tourist set piece. People still shop and walk their dogs among low hanok house
0 0How to Find an Unscented Lip Balm: Check One Line in the Ingredient List, Not the Box
Lip balm is applied right above the mouth, so its scent can seem stronger than you might expect. If the scent bothers you or your lips are sensitive, you may look for an unscented lip balm. “Unscented” and “fragrance-fre
0 0Euljiro's 'Hipjiro' alleys: printing shops by day, hidden bars by night
Euljiro doesn't look like a nightlife district at first glance. By day it's still full of small printing shops and metal workshops that have operated there since the late 1960s — paper stacked on the pavement, delivery c
0 0Hongdae's photo booth street: how to work a strip of Life4cuts, Photoism and the rest
Hongdae stopped being just a shopping-and-clubbing neighbourhood a while ago. Around the alleys near Exit 9 of Hongik University Station, the last couple of years have packed in a dense run of self-photo studios — Life4c
0 0China NMPA Announcement No. 70: registering imported cosmetics gets lighter
China's NMPA issued Announcement No. 70 of 2026 on July 29, 2026, effective the same day. It trims cosmetic registration and filing steps, which directly affects imported brands. What changes for imported cosmetics China
0 0Biblioteca Musical de Hyundai Card en Hannam-dong: cómo se entra realmente
Along Itaewon-ro, between Hannam-dong and Itaewon, Hyundai Card runs one of its themed "libraries": the Music Library, entirely devoted to vinyl. It's not a shop or a record bar, but a curated space run by the credit-car
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