Sewoon Plaza (Sewoon Sangga)

Sewoon Plaza (Sewoon Sangga) is Korea's first all-in-one electronics arcade. It opened in 1968, and shops selling electrical and electronic parts, audio equipment and lighting, along with craftsmen who work on the equipment, are still gathered here. It is about 1.2 km east of Euljiro 1-ga Station in a straight line, between Jongno and Cheonggyecheon Stream.

The site of today's Sewoon Plaza was an evacuation clearance zone that Japan left empty in 1945 in case of Allied bombing. After the Korean War, people who had lost their homes built shacks and lived here.

In 1966 the area became South Korea's first urban redevelopment project zone. It was designed by architect Kim Swoo-geun, and Sewoon Plaza was completed just two years later, in 1968. Companies such as TG Sambo Computer, Hancom and Commax are known to have started here.

The building has four floors. According to the official materials, they are divided as follows.

• Home appliance distribution shops
• Household appliance wholesale shops
• Electrical and electronic parts specialists
• Electronic parts and product repair shops

Goods on sale range from electrical and electronic parts, electrical materials and computer semiconductors to audio equipment, electronics, CCTV, game machines, karaoke machines and lighting.

In the drama Vincenzo, "Geumga Plaza", the building that the main character protects together with its tenants, is Sewoon Plaza. Its retro atmosphere makes the scenes in the drama all the more memorable.

Each shop has its own opening hours and days off, so if you want to visit a particular shop, it is best to contact it in advance. Information about the arcade is on the Sewoon Plaza website. To combine it with other sights in Euljiro, see our Euljiro attractions map.