South Korea: Seoul - What is in MyeongDong?

This post is dedicated for SHOPPER:

4 main districts for shopping in Seoul Korea, you can spend as long as one whole day in those 4 districts.
1. MyeongDong
2. DongDaeMun
3. Sinchon, Ewha Womans Uni and Hongik Uni
4. InsaDong

All 4 districts is reachable by subway, just get a subway map and find out the station that named with those districts.

Let me go a little detail on the above districts.

1. MyeongDong
What's there?
The heaven of women, the street that full with cosmetic and clothes. And those shop usually given out free cosmetic sample, so even you don't so keen on buying, you can get something (or i would say a lot) of thing to go back with you.
What else there?
Coffee shop and restaurant of course. If you're guys and not a shopper, theater of korean musical show is there (RM150 per ticket, detail in other post), a beautiful church or if your female travel mate decided to sink herself in the place for whole day and not goin anywhere, you can go to N-Seoul Tower.

2. DongDaeMun
What's there?
Clothes, and clothes, and clothes.

What else there?Clothes, and clothes, and clothes. 

P/s: Well my advice on DOngDaeMun might not neutral, because i was there for only few hours and i decided to go back. Nothing fresh that attract my eyes. Plus i dislike the environment, the malls' are doing wholesales and retail at the same time, so you can imagine la.

3. Sinchon, Ewha Womans Uni and Hongik Uni

What's there?

Cheap clothes (because of uni area), cheap and big portion food (buffet BBQ, post later).
What else there?
Ewha Womans Uni, called the most beautiful university in Korea,

P/s: Sinchon, Ewha and Hongik are different district but not far from each other, people usually plan to visit this 3 places in one day. Suggest to visit Hongik or Sinchon in night time, full of cheap beer store and night market, i think mostly because of full of uni student there. 

4. InsaDongWhat's there?

Artistic street, less clothes (less a lot!) but more nice souvenir, with street performance too.
What else there?

The street is nearby the palace, if you believe you can done visiting the palace in half day, you might could spend another half day here, which like me do.

For the post, i go for MyeongDong first.

Elaine and i like MyeongDong the best although the fashion choice wasn't the best and price wasn't the cheapest, but we both like the atmosphere of the street.

If you know cantonese 行街买野, which Malaysia define it in action as "shop in the mall", in MyeongDong define different.

People mountain people sea. 

Don't worry about language, most of the shop keeper do speak fluently English and Chinese. 

Night time still sibeh crowded. 

More bar and restaurant open in night time too. 

In Myeong Dong, you're really 行街 (walk on the street, not mall) and shop from the beginning of the street till the end, unlike DongDaeMun, you might get lost in the huge and complicated malls.

If you're goin to shop in MyeongDong with none shopper, you can let them...

1. Enjoy coffee
in very comfortable cafe, and play the game of "guess which nose is fake" game.

Very Korean style Starbucks

These 3 men (one behind the cam) decided to let Lynn and I go crazy shopping and chill in cafe.

See ppl pass by and talk about girls, sigh 

2. Sweep the street 
The language of John, means eat every single stall on the street. Give them the map of MyeongDong and ask them to eat stall by stall.

Sweep the street-ing, John loves it.  

Dunno what but good to have it during cold weather. 

Rice cake,

Handroll and snack.

3. Visit the church

If your partner is not a eater or coffee addicted, let them go walk around to the church, from MyeongDong station across the shopping street to this church is just 10 minutes (If you manage to hold yourself to not go into any shop), just get the map in the station for this very beautiful place's location.  

Beautiful church.

Feel like in western country. 

Lynn, Ah Sui and I

Praying

Love the atmosphere 

4. Eat 

Few famous restaurants are located in MyeongDong, including the restaurant that created bibimbap and for non spicy eater, MyeongDong has Chinese cuisine restaurant named MyeongDong Dumpling. 

Famous restaurant in MyeongDong

And taste good as you have it in China

100% not spicy for those cannot take spicy food.

Bibimbap founder

See this uncle and you know you're not too far away from the shop. 

Lynn thinking when to come back for shop again yet the guys thinking how to not let us back and shop again. haha

I'd say impressive but taste good. 

5. The Rest...

N Seoul Tower is not too far away from MyeongDong, if you plan to make Myeong Dong one day trip then you can slot in this attraction during night for the laser show (Detail in next post)

Namsan Park too nearby MyeongDong
Theater with famous Korean musical show eg Jump and Nanta.

For us, we go back and sleep after shop and eat and everything, we make N-Seoul Tower in the next day. 

Advice for reader, if you didn't get any travel pass and dont wanna return to MyeongDong area for transport fees saving, you may arrange the plan so..

10am: Reach Myeong Dong and explore

12nn: Lunch
1pm: Shop for shopper, Church / Theather / Eat / Cafe Namsan Park for non shopper.
6pm: Dinner
8pm: N Seoul Tower
10pm: Supper and back.

So you just need to drop in MyeongDong station and get all these attractions / shopping done.

But for us, we got 20 rides / day travel pass, we actually return to MyeongDong in the other day for dinner and N Seoul Tower.

Wanna know what's the travel pass about?? Click me, scroll down for the travel pass comparison~.  

we 5. 

Okies next will be N Seoul Tower's detail like entrances fees and how to go. If i'm not lazy i might update in this weekend.

Oh, the rest of the district i might blog or might not blog later, see if i got enough infor or not la~

Okay bai bai!



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