For a pleasant shopping in Seoul, all conditions have been created. The range of goods offered in local shopping centers is very wide, and the price categories will arrange almost any buyer.
Sentral City Shopping Center is a full-fledged family shopping and entertainment center. It is located almost in the city center and is connected by the covered gallery with the "Seoul Express" bus station. The complex includes various, most advanced institutions: JW Marriott hotel, a large conference center of the international level "Millennium Hall", the largest health center "Thermal Sources" with the Fitness Club "Markiz", several cinemas. Finally, the Central Element of the Complex is the shopping center "Sentral Machine". In addition to the many boutiques of world-famous trademarks, there are car dealerships selling Korean and national production. Here is the largest multi-level bookstore in the country. A local restaurant courtyard is at your service numerous restaurants and snack bars with dishes of national Korean cuisine, as well as Fast Fudi enterprises. You can get to this shopping center on the subway (line 3 or 7).
Coex Mall Shopping Center is located on the underground level of the Center for International Trade Seoul. It covers an area of more than 12 hectares and is considered one of the largest in the country and stretches from the Metro station "Samsung" to the buildings "Asem Tower". In this underground maze, many institutions and leisure activities are concentrated. Here is the whole restaurant area "Lake Food Court" with restaurants of national cuisines around the world, the view area on which various concerts are held and theatrical productions are set, Arcade "Champion Games" with dozens of the most modern slot machines, a cinema - multiplex, in which 16 rooms . It will be interesting to be here in the oceanarium "Koex Aquarium", where more than 40 thousand species of sea fauna are presented. And on the second underground floor "Koeks Mol" there is a Kimchi Museum, where you can not only visit the excursion that tells about the history of this dish of national cuisine, but also to purchase all the necessary ingredients for further home cooking at competitive prices. This shopping center has been running from 10 to 20 hours (on Saturdays - up to 21 hours). You can get here on the subway, going through the output number 6 at the station "Samsung".
Shopping center Sky City. He harmoniously entered the airport airport complex Kimho, who, after opening an international airport in Incheon, turned from a major international hub in the domestic transport center. In the new, but dynamically developing shopping center there are all sorts of shops, restaurants, cinemas and fitness rooms. There is here and a separate division called "Techno Sky City". This is a major retail electronics center, where 700 stores from all regions of the country offer computers, home equipment and much more. Skye City Shopping Center is located on the metro line 5.
Shopping center Warld Cap. This representative shopping and entertainment center is located inside the Sanaam World Cup Stadium, which was built in Seoul for the 2002 World Cup. The center combines a large discount trade market, a multi-screen cinema and over hundreds of all kinds of clothing and accessories. The cinema for 1800 places has ten viewed rooms, among which the "Golden Class Theater" is particularly popular with 30 VIP seats for couples. Resting, buyers can stroll in nearby thematic parks located along the bank of the Hangan River. The shopping center is located at the release of the station "Stadium of the World Championship Cup Stadium" Metro Line 6.
Among the most popular fashion store stores, we can separately single out those located on Mokton Street. In total, there are more than 150 outlets, which traded the clothes of domestic and foreign manufacturers. The price level is low enough, since almost all the goods are sold here with permanent discounts reaching 70%. And therefore, even on weekdays there is no penalty from buyers. You can find this shopping street at the output number 2 of the metro station "Mokton" Line 5.
The length of Mundzondon Street is only 300 meters, but it has already gained great popularity among tourists, because all types of fashionable clothes are sold here: evening dresses, sports suits and accessories from more than 200 manufacturers. You can find vintage samples of past decades in specialized stores, located on this street. Shops are open here from 11 am to 21 hours. You can get to Mundzondon, coming out through the output number 1 of the seulting station of the Seoul Metro 8 lines and go through for about five minutes.
The focus of discount trade stores with clothing near the Caribon metro station (metro lines 1 and 7) is unique in that most establishments are focused on male buyers. The complex of fashion stores "Mario Outlet" unites over 200 enterprises trading the most diverse products of famous firms - from the costumes for newborns to adult clothes, and with large discounts. On the first floor there is a cafeteria. Stores are open here daily from 10.30 am to 20.30 pm, except the main Korean holidays (New Year in the lunar calendar and Thanksgiving Day Chusok). You can reach here in just 10 minutes from the exits of 1 or 3 Metro Station "Caribon".
Advanced antiques I recommend to visit the market in the Changanphene area. About 100 stores selling antique products are located on its territory. The thin fragrance of ancient objects of art and crafts seems to be intertwined here with a weak smell of dust and patina, which cover items that have passed the test. Smells come from openwork wooden furniture, oil lamps, molds of rails for rice cookies, jugs, millstone and various other items. Here you can admire terracotta figures or clay vessels of Silla kingdom and white porcelain of the Coson period. There are also copies of ancient objects and new works of art and crafts at very affordable prices. The market only works in the first and third Sunday of each month at the outlet number 3 of the station "Tapsimni" line 5.