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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.
Edae (Korean: 이대) is a neighborhood in Seodaemun District, Seoul, South Korea. It is a popular shopping district for tourists and students of Ewha Womans University. Like Hongdae, the nearby university serves as a metonym for the area. Edae is full of budget-friendly shopping outlets and trendy clothing stores. [1] [2] [3]
On the first floor, is a four lane road and a market below. Above the shopping area, there are apartments. The second and third floors of the Nagwon building has a few hundred music stores clustered together. Various instruments and other music-related equipment such as amps, speakers and karaoke machines can be found there.
The shopping center has a number of clothing, accessory, and shoe stops, and is connected to the Daehyeon Free Mall Busan branch and the Lotte Underground Mall. The shopping area also continues to ground level, and an information desk at the center of the underground mall offers interpretation services in English, Chinese, and Japanese. [32]
During the Korean War, a tragic civil war initiated by Kim Il Sung five years after Korea's liberation, United States army sent to Korea began to call this area as Downtown Seoul. [9] Fortunately, though some of dongs (Korean unit of neighborhood) suffered huge destruction, major areas of Downtown Seoul could evade bombardments during the ...
Through the "Everybody's Buddy" program run by the Seoul Metropolitan Government, volunteers and social welfare workers tour neighborhoods, hanging goody bags with small gifts and a number to dial ...
Daehang-no (Korean: 대학로; lit. college street) is a area in Jongno District within Downtown Seoul.. Formerly known as Sunggyo-bang (숭교방; 崇敎坊; lit. high respect for teaching), it received its current name after the 1.1 km six lane road from Hyehwa-dong rotary to Ihwa-dong crossroad was designated as a "street of culture" on May 5, 1985.
Korea designated 41 cities as major cities for urban regeneration from 2006 to 2007. Among them were the area designated as Seoul's first metropolitan district, Jung-gu district, Dongseo shopping area, Daejeon, Korea's eastern district and the eastern part of the Subway Station. These pilot zones were targeted for the improvement of the ...