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Shopping
MILLIMETRE MILLIGRAM
spot to pick up quirky stationery and bags, including the Austrian brand Freitag. There's a
cafe as well as a basement gallery/furniture store and, on the 3rd floor, the boutique art
There are also MMG shops near Anguk station in Insadong and on Garosugil.
STATIONERY, BAGS
YONGSAN ELECTRONICS MARKET
(Yongsan; 9.30am-7.30pm, partly closed 1st & 3rd Sun; Line 1 Yongsan, Exit 3)
If it plugs in you can
find it at this geeky universe of high-tech marvels. Computer prices are usually marked but
prices on other goods are lacking, so do what the locals do - check out the prices online be-
fore arriving. Leave the train station plaza via Exit 3, turn right, then right again and walk
through the pedestrian overpass to enter the first building of Yongsan Electronics Town on
the 3rd floor. If all this is too much try discount electronics chain E-Mart in the nearby
I'Park Mall.
ELECTRONICS
WHAT THE TOPIC
BOOKS
(
www.whatthebook.com
;
Itaewon-ro; 10am-8pm Mon-Sat, from noon Sun; Line 6 to Itaewon, Exit 3)
Itae-
won's best bookshop sells new and secondhand English-language books as well as a wide
range of American magazines.
HANGING OUT IN HBC WITH SAM HAMMINGTON
Australian Sam Hammington is a comedian who regularly appears on the TV comedy show Gag Concert and co-
hosts the Drive Time show on radio TBS 101.3FM in Seoul. Since arriving in Seoul in 2002 he has lived in Hae-
bangchon (HBC).
'It used to be called the Ghetto,' says Hammington about HBC, which means 'liberation village' and was one
of Seoul's original
daldongne
- a hillside tent village where Korean refugees lived in the 1950s and '60s. 'To-
