Shopping
Department stores
Customers will find anything their hearts can possibly desire in Seoul's department stores. These stores deal in a huge number of products, ranging from haute couture to inexpensive clothes, and from electronic goods to furniture
Assistance from English and Japanese-speaking sales representatives is available, major credit card are accepted and foreigner-friendly exchange counters are available
Markets & street stalls
Popular items at the markets and street stalls include silks, traditional Korean dress, fabrics, womens wear, kitchen equipment, fruits, dried fish, Korean food, etc
The markets offer almost everything you might be looking for at very reasonable prices
Duty free shops
Duty-free shops are where you can purchase high-quality, luxury and imported goods without tax. Some stores have special discount periods for the purchase of duty free goods so you can buy items are at even better prices
Shop assistants in the duty-free stores speak foreign languages such as English, Japanese and Chinese. You can use dollars, won, yen as well as credit cards such as AMEX, JCB, MasterCard and VISA
Images courtesy of Ji-Hoon Li Park