dress shoes in korea, low prices

[HanSoo417]

After shopping around for a bit I found that dresss shoes in korea are really cheap compared to the ones in the us. Is this simply from cheaper labor costs or is the quality also very inferior.

 

[acidboy]

Are you talking about Korean brands vs. American or European brands?

 

[Xenok]

Which shoes and where in particular have you been shopping? I have not been able to find *nice* dress shoes at a cheap price in Seoul.

 

[HanSoo417]

Well i don't know much about dress shoes. I just went to dong dae moon and saw that they were cheap. Perhaps they're aren't "nice" by SF standards.

 

[riotshield]

My experience with shoes in Korea: the apparel in Dongdaemun and other open market/shijang places is cheap but kind of disposable in terms of quality (made in China stuff, lots of fakes), and those at the department store/bekwajum stores are higher quality (often foreign designer label) but more than you'd expect to pay in the U.S. I didn't see any outlet or sales places (although I never tried the online marketplaces there).

Purchasing power for MTM clothing is much better in Korea than in the U.S., but it seems it's the opposite for shoes.

 

[Tarmac]

There are decent and even unique designs for fashion shoes in places like dongdaemun. If I lived in Korea I think I would buy a pair occasionally there. But they are more like disposable 1-2 year shoes rather than the type you keep forever and resole. If you like the design, buy it, just don't pay too much.

 

[skjung1]

Dress shoes are very cheap in Dong Dae Moon, but most of them are fake or low quality one.

Brand shoes (authentic) in a dept store are very expensive.

 

[dizzhizz]

no offense, but why would you ever buy dress shoes from dongdaemun? they would last no longer than one or two seasons at most, and the aesthetics would be just a rip off any dior type shoe and not to mention you would have hundreds of locals wearing the same design.

sorry man but NO to dongdaemun type clothing.

 

[Brian SD]

I did find a couple shoes in dongdaemun that looked alright, but they had a much higher price to match the quality.

Seems like 99% of what Koreans wear is cheap knock-offs of whatever was on the runway 4 or so years ago. Shoes are flashy, corrected grain leather, often patent, and cheaply constructed. Then again, they're cheap too.