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Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Seoul travel guide_Gwangjang Market

If you’re a vintage junkie and in a habit of raiding your grandparents’ wardrobes, Gwangjang market is the place to go. It’s filled with millions of vintage items; from clothing, accessories and handicrafts.

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It is Korea’s first market and continues to thrive as a popular tourist destination today.
The market provides high-quality fabric including silk, satin, linen, bedding as well as imported vintage clothes and accessories and shoes, agricultural products, handicrafts and so on. It’s a vast sized market so you need to know the directions to find vintage clothing.

Gwangjang Market is next to Cheong Gye Cheon and close to the Dongdaemun Market area.
Starting from Gwanghwamun near City Hall and Kyungbok Palace, you can take a stroll along the Cheongyecheon stream walk path or take the subway. The traffic’s mad in this area so I strongly suggest you take the subway.

There are two stations nearby.
Jongro 5ga Station (blue line, line no. 1): exit no. 8
Euljiro 4ga Station (green, purple line, lines no. 2 and 5): exit no. 4

Coming from Jongro 5ga Station, find the entrance marked star in the map. This is the easiest way to find the vintage shops.

The narrow corridors

Stacks of vintage clothing.

Stacks of clothes and accessories.

Colorful !

It's a granny style knit cardigan but for a vintage junkie, it's the hottest item to mix and match.

Bags and shoes

You can also find fur jacket and coats at reasonable price range. Most of them are as good as new.

Leather jacket is always right.

Some stores reform the old vintage item themselves. This item used to be a jacket but now reformed into a vest. The Rolling Stones patch, studs and safety pins have been added.