People often buy Korean clothes, and indeed because Korean clothes have their unique style, they fall deeply in love with them.
There are tens of thousands of online stores selling Korean clothes on FB and IG, with many styles and different prices. Everyone must have a question in their hearts, why are these clothes so cheap, and why are these clothes so expensive? Today, let's share with you the Korean clothes of Dongdaemun in Korea.
Dongdaemun
Dongdaemun in Seoul is a super popular spot for fashion and shopping. It’s got a bunch of big shopping centers and markets, including places like Doota, Migliore, and Hello APM. You can find all sorts of stuff there, from trendy clothes to accessories and shoes.
The shopping area in Dongdaemun is split into two parts: a retail area and a wholesale area. The retail area is mainly open during the day, while the wholesale area starts up around 8 PM and keeps going until about 4 or 5 in the morning. So whether you’re looking to buy some new fashion pieces or you want to buy in bulk, Dongdaemun has got you covered.
Plus, there’s this place in Dongdaemun called the “Dongdaemun Design Plaza” (or DDP), where they often hold various fashion and design-related exhibitions.
If you’re into Korean fashion, then Dongdaemun is definitely a place worth checking out. But keep in mind that the quality and prices of the products can vary, so it’s a good idea to shop around. According to some info online, Dongdaemun has a lot of different shopping malls, including APM, APM PLACE, Apm Luxe, DDP FASHION MALL (U:US), Queen’s Square, THEOT, OT, Cheongpyeongho, Team204, and more. These malls offer a variety of products in different styles and price ranges, so they cater to different consumer needs.
Fashion Wholesales Business in Dongdaemun
The wholesale market in Dongdaemun starts around 11 PM. There are tens of thousands of people here every day, and millions of goods are circulating everywhere. They are buyers from all over the world…
Dongdaemun in South Korea is a modern large-scale clothing wholesale market that leads fashion trends and has influence in South Korea and even Asia. The source of clothing for all clothing stores in South Korea, including many high-end fashion stores in Myeongdong and Gangnam, all come from here. It brings together tens of thousands of merchants from surrounding countries, fashion designers, and internet celebrities to wholesale and order clothes here.
Dongdaemun is divided into several areas:
High-end wholesale area - High-end clothing, bringing together all the powerful fashion wholesale brands in South Korea. The wholesalers who can settle in this mall are the original most powerful in Dongdaemun. Many high-end shop clothes in Seoul Gangnam are also ordered here or set up wholesale stalls here.
Middle-level wholesale area - Mostly based on the designer’s own ideas. Many independent designers’ paradise, the proportion of designers who personally take care of the store here is higher, so the style of each store is very different.
Affordable wholesale area - This area is all clothes manufactured by garment factories, some labels are MIC, sometimes even if it is sewn with a Korean label, it will make people doubt… The industrial level of such a progressive country, how can it produce such low-quality products, although it is not as cheap as Shenzhen, but the price of this area is indeed cheap. The quality is also uneven, many productions come from China, but although some are produced in China, the copyright design, materials and quality, and production supervision all belong to the Korean team.
Korean goods are the same, there are high-end and low-end, good and bad. Low-end affordable styles generally come from China.
Although the South Korean government does not have a hard rule that all brands must sew labels, but we have been in this industry for more than ten years, and the quality of Korean mid-to-high-end clothing has always been a guarantee of confidence.