Craft & Ateliers in Seoul
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Workshop and shop for traditional Korean crafts in Bukchon. Hands-on classes in pottery, knot-making, paper crafts, and hanji. Take home a piece you made yourself.
Hyein Seo is a Seoul-based fashion label whose clothing draws on streetwear while exploring more restrained cuts and handmade pieces. Its first physical shop also brought the label's atelier into the same setting, as described in an interview with its designers. The online collection and stockist list offer another way to explore the label before choosing where to shop.
Seoul's craft beer capital — dozens of microbreweries and bottle shops along Itaewon's hills. Korean craft brewers experiment with local ingredients like yuzu, omija, and Korean hops.
Korea Craft Gallery has anchored Insadong's craft district since opening its shop there in 2005, specializing in mother-of-pearl lacquerware, hanji paper crafts, and traditional fans made by its own workshop. The company runs a full online store alongside its physical Insadong location.
Saegimsori hand-carves personalized dojang seals from its Insadong storefront, offering everything from baby's-first-seal keepsakes to gold-embossed corporate stamps carved to order. The shop maintains both its physical Insadong location and an online store for custom orders shipped nationwide.
The Store from Tong-In has sold Korean antiques and craft at 32 Insadong-gil in Seoul since 1924. Its 1973 building by Kim Seok-jae is a designated Seoul Future Heritage site. The design echoes a long-necked Gaya and Silla earthenware vessel and keeps the upper floors nearly windowless to protect antique works. Ceramics and lacquerware fill the floors alongside metalwork and hanji paper. Minhwa painting is sold too, and the Tong-In Gallery shares the building.