5 Main Q&A's at Dongdaemun Wholesale Market! ?

Q&A

1: How big is the Dongdaemun lot?

A: The Dongdaemun lot is divided into 3 areas, the affordable area, the middle-priced area, and the high-priced area. Each area has at least 2 or more batches like a department store. A building with several floors has at least 300-500 stores on each floor, and each store has an area of less than 1-3 pings. The goods are densely placed, and the variety is quite complete.

2: Holidays in Dongdaemun Batchchang?

A: Dongdaemun Market is always closed every Saturday and only opens at 8 pm on Sunday. In addition, there are two fixed holidays every year, one is the summer vacation in August, and the other is the Chinese Lunar New Year. These two transfer holidays are longer, about 1 to 2 weeks. The summer vacation is usually set on 4/8~12/8, and the new year usually starts on the 26th of the lunar year. However, according to past experience, many manufacturers start their vacation about a week earlier. goods. In addition, because Korea and China are similar in history and culture, there are many festivals that are the same, such as Mid-Autumn Festival, New Year's Day, etc., and the batches will also take a few days off to celebrate.

3: What are the opening hours of the Dongdaemun Market?

A: The opening hours of batches in South Korea are somewhat different from those in other countries. Dongdaemun is retail in the morning, and the opening hours of batches in the evening are from 20pm to 00am. One thing to note is that the batches in the shoe city are open for business. The time is 2am ~ 15pm, so before you arrive in Korea, you must arrange and plan the time.

4: Can you successfully distribute goods even if you don’t understand Korean?

A: In fact, the wholesale market belongs to the commercial area. Those Korean shop assistants face batches of customers coming and going from various countries every day, especially mainland China. Therefore, they will know some simple Chinese or English vocabulary more or less. In addition, some stores in Dongdaemun also employ Chinese students as employees. Therefore, language is not too much of a factor to worry about.

5: Where to live in Dongdaemun wholesale?

A: If you are mainly dealing with Dongdaemun, the editor still recommends living in Dongdaemun, because the work of batching is very labor-intensive, so you must take a minute and a second of rest time. In addition, the batching starts in the evening. Generally, if the batch is approved to a certain extent, you can rush back to the place of accommodation to put down the first round of purchases and then fight for the second round, so try to be as close to the batching area as possible.

The above editors have shared some experience in purchasing in person in the batch, hoping to help everyone.

Article information: Orangbox