Myeongdong Underground Shopping Center
명동 지하쇼핑센터
An underground arcade of 61 shops linking the Lotte Department Store main branch to Myeongdong's main street. The passage stays open around the clock even when the shops do not. Myeongdong has a second arcade with a near-identical name: the one attached to Myeongdong Station is the Myeongdong Station Underground Shopping Center, a separate 70-shop arcade under Toegye-ro.
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Place information
- Korean name
- 명동 지하쇼핑센터
- Address
- Jiha 72 Namdaemun-ro, Jung-gu, Seoul
- Nearest station
- Euljiro 1-ga Station (을지로입구역, Line 2) (Exit 7)
- Opening hours
- 09:00–22:00
- Closed
- Open year-round
- Hours notes
- These are the shops' hours. The passage itself is open 24 hours, so you can walk through after they close.
- Area
- 3,838 m²
Nearby
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Central Seoul's best-known shopping district for cosmetics, fashion and tax-refund shopping. Treat it as a neighborhood rather than a single mall because individual stores keep their own hours.
Hadongkwan
A gomtang house in Myeongdong. It opens at seven in the morning and closes at four in the afternoon.
Shinsegae Department Store Main Store
One address, four buildings, and the names changed in 2025 — so a page that still says "main building and annexe" is describing a layout that no longer exists. The reason to come without a shopping budget is on the fourth floor of The Heritage: a free museum of Korean retail history inside a 1935 bank.
Myeongdong Cathedral
It publishes no visiting hours, because it is a parish rather than an attraction — what it publishes is a Mass timetable. The one clock that does cover the site belongs to 1898 Plaza, the archdiocese-run arcade under the approach, open 09:00 to 22:00 every day but two.
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