The Hyundai Seoul stands at 108 Yeouidae-ro in Yeongdeungpo-gu, inside the Parc.1 complex on Yeouido, and it opened on 26 February 2021. Eight levels are open to shoppers, each carrying a name rather than a department label: B2 Creative Ground, B1 Tasty Seoul, 1F Exclusive Label, 2F Modern Mood, 3F About Fashion, 4F Life & Balance, 5F Sounds Forest and 6F Dining & Art. Four further levels, B3 to B6, are parking. Shops trade 10:30 to 20:00 from Monday to Thursday and 10:30 to 20:30 from Friday to Sunday. The restaurants run on a separate clock and stay open until 22:00 every day, so the last ninety minutes to two hours of the building’s day belong to the food floors alone.

Three subway approaches exist and they do not deliver you to the same place. Yeouido Station, served by Lines 5 and 9, is the operator’s own reference point: Exit 3 leads to a moving walkway that brings you in at B2, while Exit 4 leaves roughly a 400-metre walk to the main entrance at street level. Yeouinaru Station on Line 5 is listed as the third, from Exit 1, with the operator’s directions running past Seoul Apartment and Gongjak Apartment to the rear entrance; Seoul’s official tourism site puts that walk at 312 metres. Which one you take decides whether you start in the young-fashion basement, in the ground-floor luxury hall, or at the back of the building.

There is no fixed weekly closure to memorise, which is what makes the closed dates worth looking up before travelling rather than on the day. The operator publishes them month by month on the branch page as a marked calendar. Checked on 2 September 2026, that calendar showed 24 and 25 September closed — two consecutive weekdays, a Thursday and a Friday, not a Monday. Seoul’s official tourism site, by contrast, lists the store’s days of operation as daily, so the operator’s calendar is the only reliable answer for a specific date. Visitor services are floor-bound too: the tax refund counter is in the Service Lounge on 6F, the Tourist Desk and concierge are on 1F, lockers are on B1, B3 and B4, the WOW Pass kiosk is on B2, and nursing rooms are on B1, 5F and 6F.

Exit 3 puts you in the basement, Exit 4 puts you at the front door

The moving walkway from Yeouido Station Exit 3 arrives at B2, which is Creative Ground — young contemporary and character brands, jeans and streetwear, editorial shops and SPA labels, sportswear, underwear, jewellery and watches, culture and lifestyle, and its own food and drink outlets. Arriving there is convenient in bad weather and it is the right entrance if Korean labels are the reason for the trip, but it means the ground floor, the waterfall and the concierge desk are two levels above you.

Exit 4 involves a walk of about 400 metres outdoors and puts you at the main entrance on 1F, which is where the Tourist Desk sits. If you are arriving with luggage, or want a map, or need multilingual help, the surface route reaches those first. Hyundai Department Store’s own newsroom describes a free suitcase storage service at that desk, along with English, Chinese and Japanese assistance, self-tour maps and QR-code navigation, and states that The Hyundai Seoul is the only branch in the chain that offers the storage. Stroller rental is listed at the same desk. That combination makes the 1F approach the practical one for anyone stopping in between a hotel checkout and a flight.

The two basements do completely different jobs

B2 and B1 are both reached directly from the subway and they have almost nothing else in common. Creative Ground on B2 is the youth-fashion floor, and the operator’s directory keeps it to clothing, accessories and lifestyle categories with cafés attached.

B1 is Tasty Seoul, and it is a food floor of a scale that does not fit the phrase “department store basement”. The operator’s directory divides it into named zones — a food street and deli park, a café, bakery and dessert section, a tea and health area, Wine Works, a Korean artisan-foods section and the 22 Food Truck Piazza — and it lists London Bagel Museum, Paris Croissant and Pierre Hermé among the bakery and café tenants. At opening the store reported about ninety food outlets across the building. Because this floor keeps the 22:00 dining hours rather than the 20:00 shop hours, it is the part of the building still working after the fashion floors have shut. The gift desk and the food service lounge are on B1 as well, and the lockers start here.

Ground floor to fourth: luxury at the bottom, sport and home at the top

1F is Exclusive Label — luxury boutiques and cosmetics — and it also holds the Waterfall Garden, an indoor waterfall dropping twelve metres. 2F, Modern Mood, carries global fashion, luxury menswear, watches, accessories and lifestyle goods, and it is where most of the repair work is handled: bag and shoe repair, watch repair and the Cool White laundry service are all listed on 2F. 3F, About Fashion, is the broadest clothing floor — women’s and men’s fashion, shoes and bags, lingerie and fashion accessories — and the clothing alteration counter is here rather than on 2F, which is the detail to have straight if you are carrying something in to be altered.

4F, Life & Balance, moves away from clothing altogether into sports and outdoor wear, golf, furniture and bedding, kitchenware and home décor, with cafés among them. It is the level where the building stops reading as a fashion store. Apart from those repair counters on 2F and 3F and the concierge and Tourist Desk on 1F, these four floors carry no visitor services at all: the tax refund counter, the lockers, the nursing rooms and the infant lounge are all above or below them.

The fifth floor is a garden with shops arranged around it

Sounds Forest occupies 5F: an indoor park with real planting — grass, flowers and some thirty real trees at the time it opened — sitting under the store’s glass roof, which lets daylight down through the upper levels. A large open space of this kind inside a commercial building is not unique in Seoul; the Starfield Library in COEX Mall works on the same principle, opening and closing with the mall around it rather than on a schedule of its own.

What surrounds the garden is the family floor. The operator’s directory puts children’s and infant apparel and home electronics on the same level, and the Petit Lounge is here, with nursing facilities and a rest area. Stroller rental is listed on 5F as well as at the 1F Tourist Desk. A visitor coming to photograph the garden and a family coming for the nursing room are therefore sent to the same floor by two entirely unrelated parts of the directory.

The sixth floor holds the restaurants, the tax refund desk and a ticketed gallery

6F is labelled Dining & Art, and it is where the building’s loose ends are gathered. The fine dining restaurants, cafés and bakeries are here, and they keep the 22:00 closing time rather than the shop hours. So is the Service Lounge, and with it the tax refund counter, which sits on the top retail floor and not near either subway entrance — worth building into the order of the day, in the way that the refund counters at Olive Young in Myeongdong are concentrated in particular branches rather than available at every till. The lounge also holds gift certificate and store card services, and the CH 1985 cultural space, a nursing room and phone charger rental are on the same floor.

ALT.1 is also on 6F, and it is the part of the building that charges admission. The operator lists it at 250 pyeong, about 826 square metres, and it programmes ticketed exhibitions; the one listed in early September 2026 is Banksy: Still Here, running from 22 July to 3 November 2026. Its hours track the store’s — 10:30 to 20:00 Monday to Thursday, 10:30 to 20:30 Friday to Sunday — but ticket sales and entry both stop an hour before closing, at 19:00 and 19:30 respectively. ALT.1’s own page states that it closes on The Hyundai Seoul’s designated closure days.

Three closing times, and closed dates that move each month

Working backwards from 22:00 is the most reliable way to plan a visit. The shop floors — B2 through 5F, and the retail parts of 1F — stop at 20:00 Monday to Thursday and 20:30 Friday to Sunday. The restaurants on B1 and 6F continue to 22:00 seven days a week. Arriving at 19:30 on a Tuesday leaves half an hour of shopping and two and a half hours of eating; the same arrival on a Saturday adds thirty minutes upstairs.

The monthly closed dates are the harder constraint, and no rule of thumb substitutes for checking. They are not a fixed weekday and they can fall on consecutive days, and the English-language sources do not agree that they exist at all: Seoul’s official tourism site lists the store as operating daily, while the operator’s own English branch calendar carries the marked dates given above. ALT.1’s page, which refers to the store’s designated closure days, is consistent with the calendar rather than with the “daily” listing. Seoul rewards this kind of checking generally — the buildings in Dongdaemun run retail and wholesale clocks that differ by twelve hours and close on different days of the week — but here the differences are all inside one building.

The reason the floors read the way they do is that a little under half the building is not selling anything. At opening the store reported roughly 89,100 square metres of operating space with about 49 per cent of it given over to rest and recreational areas rather than retail, and corridors widened to as much as eight metres against the two to three metres normal in a Korean department store. That is why the waterfall gets a place on the ground floor and the garden takes the whole of the fifth.

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