Shopping in Incheon
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Apart from that, a lot of budget-friendly Korean goods and handicrafts items fill up the bags of the tourists while returning from shopping in Incheon.
Candies at Incheon are also quite tasty and addictive. Cigarettes are also quite cheap. With every four cartons of Marlboros, you'll get one for free. Even the beverages are quite cheap and affordable.
Shopping in Incheon starts from its airport. Incheon is more like a shopping mall where airliners happen to stop. There's an Asian food court and a Western food court. Four different banks offer currency exchange.
Shopping in Incheon covers a wide topic… liquor, cigarettes, brand electronics, cashmere wear, Tartan skirts, high quality Korean industrial products and souvenir. Traditional Korean food such as Kimchi, laver and rice cake is also shopped frequently.
Shopping in Incheon will also take in its count a wide variety of pickled food
and marine products including salted shrimps, salted octopus, salted herring
and salted crab.
Incheon is also famous for certain arts and crafts. Shopping in Incheon is enriched
with the local traditional items like the Danso-a short flute made from bamboo.
A special kind cow horn craft called the Hwagakjang is also popular. Things
such as book chests, ink stone chests, Korean sock chest, two-, three-, and
four-story wardrobes, rectangular tables, stationery cases, boxes for carrying
wedding gifts, needle cases, spools, push sticks, workbaskets, combs, pillow
sidepieces, brushes and fans are often made from this kind of craft.
You don't really need a heavy pocket to go out shopping in Incheon. All you
need is a desire to look through, a taste for nice things and a bag to put your
things into.
Shopping in Incheon is thus one of the major activities that adds to the tourist
attractions to the city of Incheon.
