Seoul · Myeong-dong · Neighborhood · Two to three hours
Myeong-dong for beauty shops and noodles
Myeong-dong is beauty shops, a tax refund, and a fast bowl of noodles. The palaces are another morning.
Beauty shops, a quick bowl
- Best for
- A Myeongdong-gil stretch if you came to buy skincare and stamp the tax-free form.
- Start at
- Know what you want from Myeongdong-gil before you leave the station.
- Getting there
- Myeong-dong Station (Line 4). Stay on the main shopping street.
- Budget
- Shopping is the budget. Food should be a quick bowl.
Where you go
Shop
Olive Young Myeongdong
The large Olive Young and the downstairs beauty halls are why this stop exists. Decide, pay, leave. The main street of Myeong-dong is a crush of people, not a place to stroll.
Myeongdong 8-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul
Eat
Quick noodles or kalguksu
Sit for kalguksu or another fast noodle bowl so you can keep shopping. You are eating between stores, not booking a tasting menu.
Myeongdong 8-gil area, Jung-gu, Seoul
Shop
One more cosmetics shop
If something is still missing, one more drugstore. After that it is Namsan or the hotel — a third shopping street is more walking than shopping.
Myeongdong-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul
Good to know
- Know what you came to buy. When the bag is full, you are done.
- Eat between stores so you are not hungry in a beauty queue.