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Hyundai Department Store (Korean: 현대백화점) is a major department store chain in South Korea. Its parent company is the Hyundai Department Store Group . [ 1 ] It, Lotte Department Store , and Shinsegae are the three largest chains in the country.
Hyundai Department Store Group (Korean: 현대백화점그룹) is a South Korean retail conglomerate that spun off from Hyundai Group in 1999. [1] The company began as Keumgang Development Industries established in 1971. [2] It opened its first store in Ulsan in 1977.
Dongdaemun District (Korean: 동대문구; RR: Dongdaemun-gu) is one of the 25 districts of Seoul, South Korea. It has a population of 346,770 (2010) and has a geographic area of 14.22 km 2 (5.49 sq mi ), and is divided into 14 dong (administrative neighborhoods).
Dongdaemun Market (Korean: 동대문시장) or Dongdaemun (abbreviated DDM) is a large commercial district in Jongno District, Seoul, South Korea. [1] With traditional markets and shopping centers, it is a popular shopping and tourist destination that has been designated a "Special Tourism Zone" ( 관광특구 ) since 2002.
Myeong-dong at night, Missha store on the right. The Yongsan Electronics Market of Seoul is the largest electronics market in Asia.The market specializes in electronic goods as well as computer parts, of which South Korea is a major world producer of and it contains approximately 5,000 stores housed in 22 buildings.
The area flourished as city renovations took place and highrise buildings were built. Many department stores, shopping centers, restaurants, upscale shops and boutiques set up their businesses in Myeongdong and it became popular with the young and trendy in the 1970s.
Jangan-dong is situated in Dongdaemun District in East-Central Seoul. It is a rapidly modernizing neighborhood with an old city feel. By day, it is a bustling residential area of Seoul with several apartment complexes visible, including those built by Hillstate, SM, Samsung Ramien, and Hyundai.
The Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) was designed by British-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid, winner of the 2004 Pritzker Prize, with the concept of "Metonymic Landscape".Metonymy refers to a method of describing a specific object indirectly, and Hadid integrated historical, cultural, urban, social, and economic aspects of Seoul deduced from this method in order to create a scene of the landscape.