Finally, A Toy Store

Toys-R-Us has finally opened a store in Guro (inside the Guro Lotte Mart) and it’s big and open for Christmas shopping.

5 Comments

  1. Posted December 13, 2007 at 3:25 pm | Permalink

    Are they moving into the basement space vacated by the BRIT DYI store for which Korea was, like many other foreign brands that had the temerity to try to operate here under their own aegis, a graveyard?

    Anybody want to make book? Or is it really basically a sort of Korean run franchise or licensee?

  2. R. Elgin your flag
    Posted December 13, 2007 at 4:42 pm | Permalink

    It is in the lower level. Apparently they have teamed up with Lotte so I would bet that Toys-R-us are here to stay.

    I checked it out and it is *so* much better than anything else around here except for the model kit store at Coex.

  3. Posted December 13, 2007 at 4:47 pm | Permalink

    Are you guessing on the TRU Lotte tie-up, or is it a fact? One could have imagined from the location that so did the Brit DIY outfit, B&G, but they apparently tried to float their boat on its own bottom and ended up on the bottom of the Han. I predict the same for TRU unless they have decided to bend-over for Lotte, in which case it’s the Korean consumer who will get screwed with prices at least double the world market’s.

  4. mins0306 your flag
    Posted December 13, 2007 at 5:29 pm | Permalink

    except for the model kit store at Coex

    You should try the one in Hongdae. More choices than Coex and cheaper prices to boot.

  5. R. Elgin your flag
    Posted December 13, 2007 at 9:02 pm | Permalink

    Cool.

    All I know about Toy-R-Us and Lotte is what I read.

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