Every gadget freak and computer buff’’s Shangrila: Seoul’s Yongsan electronics market, which claims to be bigger than the Tokyo and Hong Kong markets combined. As well as hundreds of businesses in this centre, the surrounding streets are full of electronics shops.
But for this New Zealander, it was a cornucopia of electronic delights to be ogled [...]
Monday, 15 June, 2009
Seoul’s enormous Yonsan electronics market
Monday, 15 June, 2009
Seoul’s throbbing heart
We arrived at Seoul’s new Incheon Airport at 7.30am Wednesday and flew out at 8.30am Saturday. Certainly not long enough to claim any real knowledge about the country, but I did learn a lot, partly because we had English-speaking Korean minders. In general I found the country more modern and sophisticated than I expected – [...]