Tag Archives: Cheonggyecheon

Building B has an entire floor, running half the length of Cheonggyecheon, with arcade game restoration shops. There were buttons and replacement part shops, repair shops, and old arcade games everywhere. This isn’t a retail outlet like Super Potato in Akihabara. You can definitely pick up spare parts for your own restoration, but there’s no […]

Retail is only a small part of Cheonggyecheon, there’s a ton of work going on too. On one block there’s a dozen laser cutting shops. In another area there’s metal working, and even a cluster of glass blowers making neon and lab glass.

Kwang Jang Market is at the far end of the Cheonggyecheon area. It’s the perfect place to take a break from your tour and grab some lunch. We included this on the Cheonggyecheon map and our Google Map layer.

Materials and tools for making are everywhere in Cheonggyecheon. This shop sells hand tools and light equipment like air compressors. We also spotted a dozen stands selling nothing but rivets, bolts, washers, or other fasteners. More materials shops below.

The northwest quarter is primarily through-hole electronics parts, switches, probes and sensors – all our favorite market stuff. Pathways snake by stands and shops the size of garages. Like at Yongsan, most shops have a product display in the window, and orders are filled from big bags. We guess this part is bigger than the […]

Yongsan was cool, but if that was the end of the trip we’d go home disappointed. There were some good component stores, and a world-class computer market, but it was mostly cameras, TVs, netbooks, cellphones, and other consumer electronics. Thankfully Hacker Space Seoul and a few commenters turned us onto Cheonggyecheon, Seoul’s hidden geek paradise. […]