Dongdaemun Market is one of South Korea’s largest wholesale and retail shopping districts. It has around 26 shopping malls, 30,000 specialty shops, and 50,000 manufacturers. Items range from textiles, clothes, shoes, and jewelry, to leather goods, toys, electronics, and office supplies.
Dongdaemun Market’s popularity is due to the fact that you can purchase practically everything you need at very reasonable prices, within 1 convenient location, and at any time of the day. Some of the most popular malls in Dongdaemun Market include Migliore, Designer’s Club, and the upmarket Lotte Fitin Mall.
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Doota (or Doosan Tower) has an outdoor concert hall, where fashion shows, concerts, modeling competitions, and classical Korean music performances take place year-round.
Book lovers and bargain hunters will also delight in Dongdaemun Market’s Secondhand Book Street. Many bookstores here have been operating for over 30 years, and you can find rare publication, novels, poetry, essays, magazines, and foreign language titles at affordable prices.
Korean street food are available at the Mukja Golmok food allet on Jong-ro 40-gil. Must-tries include gimbap (seaweed rice rolls), sundae (stuffed pig’s intestines), fish cakes, and Korean chicken soup. When the sun sets, various festivities, music and dance performances, fashion shows take place at Dongdaemun Night Market.
Dongdaemun Market
Location: Euljiro 6(yuk)-ga, Jung-gu, Seoul, South Korea
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