6 stores · curated ORBIS register
Busan Station, Dong-gu, Busan
A souvenir shop gathering products from Busan-based small companies, including stationery, handmade goods, cosmetics, food, and daily-use items. The shop opened at the Busan Eurasia Platform in November 2020.
Best for Stationery, handmade goods, and food from Busan small companies at the Eurasia
Hongdae, Mapo-gu, Seoul
ÅLAND's Hongdae shop presents fashion and lifestyle goods from emerging Korean designers within a multi-brand retail format. Clothing sits alongside smaller items such as stationery, giving shoppers more than one route into the range. Its Hongdae address is on Yanghwa-ro 16-gil, distinct from the company's other shops in Seoul and elsewhere.
Best for Emerging Korean fashion and lifestyle brands
Insadong, Seoul
A concept store and online magazine selling Korean-made natural cosmetics, home decor, stationery, accessories, handbags and socks from independent Korean artisans and small businesses, with worldwide shipping.
Best for Korean artisan lifestyle goods and cosmetics
Myeongdong, Jung-gu, Seoul
Korea's thousand-won shop, where the rule is that nothing goes over a dollar. Household goods, stationery, cosmetics and snacks in quantities that stop making sense. Myeongdong runs to four floors of it.
Best for Korea's 1,000-won shop (everything under $1)
Hongdae, Mapo-gu, Seoul
Object's Seogyo main store is in Seoul's Hongdae area on Wausan-ro 35-gil. It brings stationery together with small accessories and design goods, including work by independent creators. Browsing the collection offers a way to compare illustrated paper goods and gifts rather than search for one large brand.
Best for Illustrated stationery and independent design gifts in Hongdae
Object Hongdae is the Seogyo main store of Object, a Korean retailer that presents small design goods alongside temporary exhibitions. Its official store guide identifies the branch at 13 Wausan-ro 35-gil in Mapo-gu. The online catalogue shows the breadth of the selection. Stationery and living objects share space with character-led accessories and work sold under individual maker names. That range frames the shop as a survey of contemporary Korean character design rather than a single-brand store. The branch also treats retail space as an exhibition platform. Object's programme has used its second floor for maker pop-ups and project-led displays. A 2026 presentation by Next Design School paired a new publication with goods designed by Hongik University students and material documenting the course process. Another project, Check-in Seoul, brought together work by 46 artist teams around views of the city, with new drawings and branch-exclusive stickers. These programmes show the store's editorial role: products are grouped around a maker, process or theme, giving context to the objects on the shelves.
Hongdae, Mapo-gu, Seoul
Korea's most popular stationery and lifestyle chain. Cute, clever Korean-designed goods at impulse-buy prices. Everything from novelty socks to desk organizers to phone cases.
Best for Korean stationery, desk goods and novelty accessories
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