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[Rediscover Seoul (80)] Fashion bargains at Gasan Digital Complex

 

2010-05-28

 

Economic growth was once considered the top priority of Korea. In the ’70s and ’80s, the national slogan was “exporting is the only way to survive,” and factory building was in full swing in Korea.

In the areas around Guro-dong and Garibong-dong, in southern Seoul, the Guro Industrial Complex was built. The Garibong-dong five-way intersection served as the border that divided the complex. To the north of the intersection, electronics assembly factories moved in while clothes and sewing factories gathered in the south. The most famous outlet street, the Gasan Digital Complex area, grew from discount outlets situated at the corner of the clothing factories in the southern part of the industrial complex.

 

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