💯2024 Popular Seoul Star Hotels: 10 Best Accommodation Recommendations in Dongdaemun District

Dongdaemun in the center of Seoul is famous for its fashionable clothing wholesale market. It has become a favorite for those who like to dig treasures for cheap clothes or wholesale and retail. Dongdaemun Design Plaza and Dongdaemun History and Culture Park are landmark attractions. Seoul Metro Lines 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6 Lines converge here, becoming an accommodation area with convenient transportation.

Accommodation Choices in Dongdaemun District, Seoul

Dongdaemun star-rated hotels in Seoul are gathered in the surrounding area of ​​Dongdaemun History and Culture Park Station, with mid-level affordable design hotels as the mainstream. The well-known Dongdaemun is actually located at the intersection of Jung-gu and Jongno District in Seoul, and Dongdaemun is actually located in Dongmyo Subway. There are not many accommodation options in the area east of the station.

• Five-star hotels: Marriott, Accor, Wyndham and other groups have settled in Dongdaemun, with the best evaluationNovotel Ambassador Dongdaemun Hotel & Residences,JW Marriott Hotel Dongdaemun Plaza.
• Korean brands: Dongdaemun provides many Korean chain and independently operated mid-level hotels, with the best reviews.Nine Tree Hotel Dongdaemun,Sky Garden Hotel,IBC Hoteland so on.

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▲ Seoul’s Dongdaemun business district is located at the intersection of Jung-gu and Jongno-gu, where there are many mass-markets for affordable fashion. (source:Seoul Tourism Foundation)

Newly opened star design hotel

Nine Tree Hotel Dongdaemun

• Reservation:agoda discount rate|booking.com
• Star rating: 4 stars
• Total number of rooms: 219
• Opening year: 2020

The Nine Tree Hotel Dongdaemun Seoul opened on January 2020, 1. It provides affordable accommodation with fresh and tangible design that meets the needs of young people. It provides double rooms (14/16㎡), triple rooms (21㎡), family rooms ( 26㎡), four-person bunk bed room (21㎡) and other room types, there are self-service coin-operated laundry rooms and coin-operated luggage safes in the museum, providing services of the concept of backpackers.

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Newly opened affordable business hotel

DDK Hotel

• Reservation:agoda discount rate|booking.com
• Star rating: 3 stars
• Total number of rooms: 42
• Opening year: 2020

DDK Hotel is located next to Dongdaemun Market, adjacent to Dota Shopping Center, Dongdaemun Market and Peace Market. It mainly provides standard double rooms (16㎡), and only service counters and small bars are set up in the public space, which is a small business hotel.

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Novotel Ambassador Seoul Dongdaemun Hotel & Residences. Novotel Ambassador Seoul Dongdaemun Hotels & Residences

• Reservation:agoda discount rate|booking.com
• Star rating: 5 stars
• Total number of rooms: 523
• Opening year: 2018

Novotel is a mid-level hotel brand under the French Accor hotel group. It provides apartments and hotels in two buildings and room types. There is a large children's play room and an indoor heated swimming pool in the museum, which is absolutely the favorite of children. It is an amusement paradise, and it has the transportation advantage of being close to the subway station and the airport bus station.

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Arirang Hill Hotel Dongdaemun

• Reservation:agoda discount rate|booking.com
• Star rating: 4 stars
• Total number of rooms: 190
• Opening year: 2015

Arirang Hill Hotel Dongdaemun opened for business in September 2015. At the time of its opening, it was a soft franchise affiliated to Best Western International Hotel Group. It later withdrew from the franchise and was renamed Arirang Hill Hotel Dongdaemun. The hotel provides small facilities. The three-person room in the kitchen is equipped with restaurants, gyms, self-service laundry rooms and other facilities. It is located near Sungshin Women's University Station on Seoul Subway Line 9. It is quite far from the Dongdaemun shopping district, but it is also very convenient to get there by subway.

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