Seoul Chaekbogo

서울책보고

A used-book maze of dozens of shops

⚠ Closed Mondays

Hours

Tue–Fri 11am–8pm, Sat–Sun 10am–8pm; closed Mondays

Address

1 Ogeum-ro, Songpa-gu, Seoul

Used bookshops run in rows between steel shelves, each stall stacked to its owner's taste. Out-of-print titles, yellowed magazines and old school textbooks fill the shelves, and a single lap swallows an hour. It is a good place to fold your umbrella on a rainy day and just read spines. There are seats inside if something catches you.