Toy & Stationery Store Street — Local services in Seoul

I spent far longer than I had intended here shopping for presents for my young daughters while on a business trip - it is a fantastic experience (great atmosphere with excited kids everywhere on a Sunday) and there is an amazing variety of every toy you can imagine, however the prices are surprisingly high for everything except “pocket money” type toys, with a lot of obvious chinese knock offs mixed in. Be prepared to question the price labels to get a few thousand won off. If you don’t want to head out of central Seoul to toys r us or prefer to support the “mom and pop” stores rather than heading to the amazing Kids Floor of YongSan mall, go for it. There are some great street food vendors in the second hand/ vintage clothes market just one road on...

The majority of the boxed stuff is American, and buying it off Amazon back home is cheaper by 15-30%. So I happily bought a few things that were Korean / Japanese (Molang, Sanrio) only. The shopkeepers could barely keep their hostility in, and we couldn’t find any good restaurants / cafes in the area, even with the help of google / kakao maps. The neighborhood is generally rundown, and when we came out of the subway Exit 5, there was a store openly selling deteriorating fish in 85 degrees heat. My six-year-old however was happy to get some...

Dangerous place to bring your kids. They never want to leave 😂 The selection of toys is quite big, especially Pororo, Tayo the Bus, Super Wings and Pink Fong. Basically this is the one-stop location to get all types of South Korean toy brands. There’s also some China made “Lego”...