Ch'onggye 5-ga Bag Wholesale Market
Subway Get off the No. 1 Line Subway at Chongno 5-ga Station.
Integrated Market parking lot is available.
Ch'onggye 5-, 6-ga Hat Market
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About 20 stores specializing in hats are gathered on the 1st floor of
P'yonghwa Market, Ch'onggyech'on 5-, 6-ga, and around the opposite side stores.
Most of these stores have been selling hats for more than ten years; some stores
have been here since the 1960s. Hats sold here include casual hats, leisure sports hats, hats for special events, fatigue caps, women's hats, and kindergarteners' hats. Most stores sell on large orders for picnics or other events; the prices here are 10-20 percent cheaper than in normal markets. The Segi Hat Store, located near Kwangjang Market, specializes in women's hats, having its own production factory. The store provides display hats for the fashion industry and sells (retail and wholesale) hats for formal dress. |
Subway Get off the No. 1 Line Subway at Chongno 5-ga Station.
Ch'onggye 7-ga Bag Wholesale Market
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Enter at the rear of the inexpensive restaurant alley at the Ch'onggyech'on 7-ga
Shinp'yonghwa Market and Hung-in Market, and come out at the Namp'yonghwa Market,
Togun Market, and Cheil P'yonghwa Market, where the bag wholesale stores are
established. The major item of the Namp'yonghwa Market and the Paris Arcade of T gun Market is women's handbags, while in the Cheil P'yonghwa Market, suitcases and student bags are the main items. The prices, 30-40 percent lower than in normal markets, are not fixed,therefore each store applies slightly different prices. |
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Subway
Get off the No. 1 or 4 Line Subway at Tongdaemun Station.
Get off the No. 2 or 4 Line Subway at Tongdaemun Stadium Station.
Car
Use the underground parking lot of the Tongdaemun Stadium or the parking
lot of the Tongdaemun Chonghap Market.
Ch'onggye 7-ga Shoe Wholesale
Subway
Get off the No. 1 or 4 Line Subway at Tongdaemun Station.
Get off the No. 2 or 4 Line Subway at Tongdaemun Stadium Station.
Car
Use the underground parking lot of the Tongdaemun Stadium or the parking lot of
the Tongdaemun Chonghap Market.
Namdaemun Accessories Business Blocks
| While the major product groups sold in Namdaemun Market are clothing and imported
goods, accessories distribution is another major business in the Market.
Accessaries business blocks are scattered throughout the Market. The Yonsei Business Block and Yusong Business Block are located between the left side of Namdaemun Market entrance on T'oegyero Street and Sowolgil Street. The Namdaemun Business Block, Namch'ang Business Block, Uju or Universe Business Block, Hanil Business Block, Olympic Business Block, and Samho Arcade are concentrated in an alley between Samik Shopping Town and Namdaemunno Street. |
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The size of each business block varies a lot. There are only a little over 10 shops
in the Hanil and Olympic Business Blocks, and eight shops, including shops selling
other miscellaneous items, in the Namch'ang Business Block.
About 30 to 40 shops are doing business in the Yusong, Samho, Namdaemun and Shilloam
Business Blocks.
Intermediate-sized blocks include Yonsei, with more than 130 shops, and Yongch'ang
with more than 100 shops.
Among large-scale blocks are the ones on the second floor of the Taedo Business Block
"E" Building with more than 250 shops, one on the second and third floors of the
Uju Integrated Business Block Building with over 200 shops, and the Changan Business
Block with over 260 shops, and one on the second and third floors of the
Namjong Business Block Building with over 200 shops.
The Namjong Business Block offers exclusively accessories and raw-materials for
accessories. There are accessories shops on the second and third floors, while the
fourth and fifth floors are occupied by accessories materials shops.
Around 50 to 80% of shops offering accessories manufacture products in their own
factories, mostly on a cottage-industry level.
Most shops deal in only one product line. Across from the Taedo Business Block
"E" Building located on the central passage of the Namdaemun Market are shops
specializing in accessories stones.
Most of the business blocks focus on wholesale. General customers, however, can
purchase what they want at wholesale prices or slightly higher.
Subway
Get off at Hoehyon Station on the No. 4 Line
Bus
Get off at the Namdaemun Market or former Seoul Metropolitan Police
Department Building.
Yejidong Jewelry and Watch Shops
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Entering the "watch street" opposite the Kwangjang (Plaza) Market in Chongno 4-ga
is starting a journey into a totally different world in the heart of downtown Seoul. The watch shops, which stand side by side along the narrow back alleys leading to Ch'onggyech'on 4-ga, number about 500. When the unauthorized street stalls and jewelry shops with small glass display boards on both sides of the street are added to the count, the number of jampacked shops reaches 1,000. |
Subway
Get off the No. 1 Line Subway at Chongno 3-ga
or Chongno 5-ga Station and walk for five minutes.
Car Use the Chongmyo underground parking lot.
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