Shopping in Jinju

Jinju (진주) is a 1 hour bus ride from the Goseong (고성읍) Express Bus Terminal.

Here are the bus schedules:

고성 --> 진주	진주 --> 고성
6:20	6:00	9:39	12:15	14:51	17:15	20:15
6:55	6:30	9:51	13:03	15:15	17:40	20:55
~	6:45	10:03	13:28	15:27	18:15
every 15-20 minutes	7:32	10:30	13:51	16:00	18:27
~	7:52	11:03	14:15	16:15	18:42
20:50	9:03	11:27	14:29	16:27	19:10
21:25	9:15	11:51	14:39	16:51	19:50

The bus from Goseong doesn't go to the main Jinju terminal. It goes to 시외버스터미널 and you can only get back to Goseong from this terminal. This terminal also serves Tongyeong (통영) and Geoje (거제). If you need the schedules for those cities, let me know and I can post them. This is the Jinju terminal you will arrive at:

To get to the underground shopping, walk to the right of the bus station. If you pass a Paris Baguette on your left, then you are heading in the right direction. You will need to walk to the next major intersection.

There are many cell phone shops and wig shops (though they don't have red colored wigs! only natural colors and purple and blue.) along this road. When you get to the other main intersection, you will need to cross the street to your right and at the corner you will see stairs leading underground. These stairs lead you to the beginning of the underground shopping.

The underground shopping, in my opinion, is more expensive than the shopping above ground. Their prices are around 50,000~100,000+ won. But if that doesn't bother you, there are some really nice shops for cocktail dresses, clubbing wear, baby clothes, socks/stockings, bags, jewelry, beauty products, and lingerie. This is what the underground shopping looks like:

The underground shopping doesn't extend for very long, but once you reach the end, take the stairs up and you will be where the "downtown shopping" area of Jinju is. The above ground shopping has great shoe shops like Puma, Nike, Converse, ABC mart, Les More. The shopping area isn't very big, though, so if you go looking for something in particular, you might not find it. They do have many cheap places for clothes and accessories. They also have western places like Baskin Robbins and Pizza Hut.

Across the main street from the shopping area (the main street is the street you came up the stairs to) is the traditional market area where you can find many household products and do grocery shopping. There are also many umbrella shops and cheap shoe shops there if you need to buy any.