Record stores in Seoul

Vinyl hunting in Seoul, Seoul? There are 15 record shops mapped here. That's 15 record shops mapped around Seoul. Every shop grades and prices differently, so the same record can be a bargain in one and a splurge in another — dig everywhere. The new-arrivals bin is always the first stop — that's where the good stuff lands before anyone else sees it.

This guide covers every record store we could verify in and around Seoul (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include 김밥레코즈 and 향음악사, plus 부루의 뜨락. If a record shop's missing from Seoul's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Seoul record lineup

15 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Seoul

3 of the 15 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — record shops keep shop hours, so the listed times are usually reliable.

6 have websites listed. Worth a look for new-arrival posts and want-list services.

The Seoul record crawl

Making a day of it in Seoul? Work this order: 김밥레코즈 on 22-8 신촌로4길, 향음악사, 부루의 뜨락 on 37-1 명동8나길, MusicKorea, 바이닐 앤 플라스틱 on 248 이태원로, 현대카드 뮤직 라이브러리, SMTOWN &STORE@DDP on 281 을지로, and 메이플립 on 22 봉화산로35길. That's the record crawl in one sensible loop, no backtracking. 7 more are listed below.

Record digging tips for Seoul

A few things worth knowing before you work through Seoul's record stores:

• Check for warps in the shop at 김밥레코즈. Hold the record at eye level and sight along it. Warps that look minor at home look obvious in the store.
• The listening station is the test at 향음악사. If a record looks questionable, play the loud passages. That's where surface noise shows up.
• Visit on restock days. Shops process collections on rhythms. Ask when new used stock hits the floor and time your visits.
• The dollar bin is honest work. Nobody's getting rich off the dollar bin, but the joy-per-dollar ratio is unbeatable. Flip through all of it.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Seoul — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new record store in Seoul can take a while to appear. Spotted a closure among the 15, or a record store we missed entirely? The map is the source of truth here — one OpenStreetMap edit corrects it for everyone.

We don't list prices or stock — both change by the day. What we list is the where: real shops, verified by real mappers.

If you run one of the 15 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.