Vinyl & Plastic is a record store and bar in Yeonnam-dong, the tree-lined west-Seoul neighborhood that has become a hub for the city’s record-collector contingent. The concept is straightforward: browse and buy records, then stay for drinks and whatever the staff are playing. The execution is particularly good.
The shop stocks a carefully edited selection weighted toward electronic music (house, techno, ambient, experimental) plus Korean indie and jazz. The bar side runs adjacent, meaning an afternoon visit frequently turns into an evening one. The curation is consistently reliable, which is the most important thing you can say about a small record shop in a city where the competition is serious.
Vinyl & Plastic sits at the intersection of the Yeonnam-dong and Mangwon cluster that represents Seoul’s most interesting current development in nightlife-adjacent culture. A place where the music matters more than the occasion, and where the people browsing on a Saturday afternoon are often the same ones playing Cakeshop on Saturday night.
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