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Star Hostel Seoul Dongdaemun

2.0 star property
Central hostel with a bar connected to a shopping center in Seoul

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Single Room, Ensuite | Free WiFi, bed sheets
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Located near Myeongdong Street, Star Hostel Seoul Dongdaemun provides convenient laundry facilities and an on-site convenience store. Guests can enjoy in-room WiFi, relax with drinks at the bar, and get personalized tour assistance from the helpful multilingual staff.

Reviews

5.4 out of 10

Popular amenities

  • Bar
  • Kitchen
  • Laundry
  • Air conditioning
  • Free WiFi
  • Business services

Room options

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Single Room, Ensuite | Free WiFi, bed sheets

Single Room, Ensuite

Highlights

Air conditioning
Full-sized refrigerator/freezer
Private bathroom
Hair dryer
Microwave
Shared/communal kitchen
Rice cooker
Cookware/dishes/utensils
  • Sleeps 1
  • 1 Twin Bed

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Single Room, Private Shower and Shared Toilet | Free WiFi, bed sheets

Single Room, Private Shower and Shared Toilet

Highlights

Air conditioning
Full-sized refrigerator/freezer
Hair dryer
Microwave
Shared/communal kitchen
Rice cooker
Cookware/dishes/utensils
  • Sleeps 1
  • 1 Twin Bed

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Double Room, Ensuite | Free WiFi, bed sheets

Double Room, Ensuite

Highlights

Air conditioning
Full-sized refrigerator/freezer
Private bathroom
Hair dryer
Microwave
Shared/communal kitchen
Rice cooker
Cookware/dishes/utensils
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Double Bed

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Twin Room, Ensuite | Free WiFi, bed sheets

Twin Room, Ensuite

Highlights

Air conditioning
Full-sized refrigerator/freezer
Private bathroom
Hair dryer
Microwave
Shared/communal kitchen
Rice cooker
Cookware/dishes/utensils
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Twin Bunk Bed

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Free WiFi, bed sheets

Twin Room, Shared Bathroom

Highlights

Air conditioning
Full-sized refrigerator/freezer
Hair dryer
Microwave
Shared/communal kitchen
Rice cooker
Cookware/dishes/utensils
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Twin Bunk Bed

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Free WiFi, bed sheets

Basic Shared Dormitory, Shared Bathroom (Men-Only / For 6 Persons)

Highlights

Air conditioning
Full-sized refrigerator/freezer
2 bathrooms
Hair dryer
Microwave
Shared/communal kitchen
Rice cooker
Cookware/dishes/utensils
  • Sleeps 1
  • 2 Twin Bunk Beds

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About the neighborhood

Located in Jongno-gu neighborhood, Star Hostel Seoul Dongdaemun is connected to a shopping center. Gyeongbokgung Palace and Myeongdong Cathedral are notable landmarks, and travelers looking to shop may want to visit Gwangjang Market and Myeongdong Street. Check out an event or a game at Gocheok Sky Dome, and consider making time for Lotte World, a top attraction not to be missed.
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243, Hyoje-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Seoul, 110851

What's nearby

  • Gwangjang Market - 4 min walk - 0.2 miles
  • Dongdaemun Market Mall - 6 min walk - 0.4 miles
  • Dongdaemun Design Plaza - 9 min walk - 0.5 miles
  • Dongdaemun History and Culture Park - 9 min walk - 0.5 miles
  • Myeongdong Street - 2 min drive - 1.4 miles

Getting around

  • Jongno 5-ga Station - 4 min walk
  • Seoul Station - 13 min drive
  • Gimpo Intl. Airport (GMP) - 56 min drive

Restaurants

  • ‪백제정육점 - ‬2 min walk
  • ‪EDIYA COFFEE - ‬3 min walk
  • ‪불타는 곱창 - ‬1 min walk
  • ‪류강현 커피집 - ‬4 min walk
  • ‪제주바다 - ‬1 min walk

About this property

Star Hostel Seoul Dongdaemun

Hostel near Gwangjang Market
Close to Dongdaemun Market Mall and Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Star Hostel Seoul Dongdaemun provides a grocery/convenience store, laundry facilities, and a bar. Guests can connect to free in-room WiFi.
Other perks at this hostel include:
  • Express check-out, express check-in, and tour/ticket assistance
  • Multilingual staff, luggage storage, and concierge services
  • A computer station, a water dispenser, and a TV in the lobby
Room features
All guestrooms at Star Hostel Seoul Dongdaemun have comforts such as air conditioning, in addition to amenities like free WiFi.
Other conveniences in all rooms include:
  • Showers and hair dryers
  • Communal kitchens, full-sized refrigerators/freezers, and microwaves

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Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

Parking and transportation

  • No onsite parking available

Food and drink

  • A bar/lounge

Things to do

  • TV in common areas

Family friendly

  • Grocery/convenience store
  • In-room full-sized refrigerator/freezer
  • In-room microwave
  • Laundry facilities

Conveniences

  • Grocery/convenience store
  • Laundry facilities
  • Luggage storage
  • Water dispenser

Guest services

  • Concierge services
  • Multilingual staff
  • Tour and ticket assistance

Business services

  • Computer station

Accessibility

  • No elevator

More

  • Designated smoking areas

Room amenities

Bedroom

  • Bedsheets provided

Bathroom

  • Hair dryer
  • Shower
  • Slippers
  • Towels provided

Food and drink

  • Cookware, dishware, and utensils
  • Full-sized refrigerator/freezer
  • Microwave
  • Rice cooker
  • Shared kitchen access

More

  • Air conditioning

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 3:00 PM; Check-in end time: 11:30 PM
Express check-in available
Minimum check-in age: 18

Check-out

Check-out before 10:00 AM
Express check-out available

Special check-in instructions

There is no front desk at this property
Guests planning to arrive outside of normal check-in hours will receive an email within 24 hours before arrival with check-in instructions and key retrieval information; access will be through a private entrance

Access methods

Key retrieval, private entrance

Pets

Pets not allowed

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome
Rollaway/extra beds are not available
Cribs (infant beds) are not available

Property payment types

Important information

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts credit cards; cash is not accepted

We should mention

This property does not have elevators

National rating

For the benefit of our customers, we have provided a rating based on our rating system.

Property is also known as

Star Dongdaemun
Star Dongdaemun Seoul
Star Hostel Dongdaemun
Star Hostel Dongdaemun Seoul
Star Hostel Seoul Dongdaemun
Star Seoul Dongdaemun
Star Hostel Seoul Dongdaemun Seoul
Star Hostel Seoul Dongdaemun Hostel/Backpacker accommodation

Frequently asked questions

Is Star Hostel Seoul Dongdaemun pet-friendly?

No, pets are not allowed at this property.

How much is parking at Star Hostel Seoul Dongdaemun?

This property doesn't offer parking.

What time is check-in at Star Hostel Seoul Dongdaemun?

Check-in start time: 3:00 PM; Check-in end time: 11:30 PM.

What time is check-out at Star Hostel Seoul Dongdaemun?

Check-out is at 10:00 AM.

Where is Star Hostel Seoul Dongdaemun located?

Located in Jongno-gu, this hostel is within a 10-minute walk of Gwangjang Market and Dongdaemun Market Mall. Dongdaemun Design Plaza and Dongdaemun History and Culture Park are also within 15 minutes. Jongno 5-ga Station is only a 4-minute walk and Dongdaemun Station is 7 minutes.

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Star Hostel Seoul Dongdaemun Reviews

Reviews

5.4
Rating 10 - Excellent. 5 out of 37 reviews
Rating 8 - Good. 4 out of 37 reviews
Rating 6 - Okay. 12 out of 37 reviews
Rating 4 - Poor. 5 out of 37 reviews
Rating 2 - Terrible. 12 out of 37 reviews

5.4/10

Cleanliness

6.0/10

Staff & service

6.8/10

Amenities

5.2/10

Property conditions & facilities

5.4/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

2/10 Terrible

Max Emil Kjaersgaard Snekloth

Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This hostel is a scam sharing the name of a nearby hotel deliberately to fool people. The place is dirty, AC doesn't work, wifi doesn't work, there's no breakfast obviously, floors/walls of soft plastic, dirty toilet, AC rain outside, the locks don't work, there's bugs and there's no reception. This hostel should be closed down by the city government, Seoul would be better without it and there are legal grounds to do so
Stayed 9 nights in Jul 2025

2/10 Terrible

Lea

New furnitures and an update of the bathroom would be necessary.
Stayed 7 nights in Apr 2024

2/10 Terrible

Asahi

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Dirty, smelly, loud annoying roommates that didn’t let me sleep
Stayed 17 nights in Sep 2024

2/10 Terrible

NAOKI

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
I stayed private room. I stayed for 3 nights and found 3 roaches and 1 bug. My body was itchy all the time because of dirty bed. Sound deadening does not exist in this facility. No towel and body soap(just shampoo) No amenities. I will not recommend to stay here.
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2023

6/10 Okay

Ella

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
No reception, I went to the wrong hostel (there’s the same one down the street) and wasn’t told there were two different ones! Only way to contact someone was via WhatsApp Wasn’t communicated what room I was in Bed sheets aren’t washed properly, mine were stained and also the towels smelt really bad
Stayed 7 nights in Apr 2024

4/10 Poor

Timmy

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The lock to our room didn’t work, so you could just pull the door open even when it was locked. The locks to the bathrooms didn’t work either. The wifi we were supposed to be using did’nt even exist, so we had to use another one from one of the other rooms (every room had its own). There was mould in the aircondition. There were cockroaches in some of the rooms. Sometimes there weren’t any staff at the reception even when there was supposed to be. Information at the hostel told us there would be breakfast, but there was none. Only good thing was a relatively low price and quite centrally placed.
Stayed 5 nights in Sep 2024

4/10 Poor

EIHI

Stayed 7 nights in Jun 2025

6/10 Okay

yin yee

Stayed 6 nights in Mar 2025

6/10 Okay

Atsuko

Stayed 5 nights in Dec 2024

6/10 Okay

Mathilde

Auberge qui fait l’affaire pour quelques jours seulement. Seulement deux wc/salles d’eau pour une dizaine ou quinzaine de chambres…. Dans une ruelle au calme proche de la station Jongno 5 ga (ligne1 du métro de Séoul). Proche du marché avec pas mal de street food et commerçants en tout genre. Literie un peu dure.
Stayed 7 nights in Oct 2024

2/10 Terrible

MOEKA

Stayed 7 nights in Oct 2024

2/10 Terrible

Furkan

Her yerde kocaman hamam böcekleri vardı ve fotoğraflardaki gibi değildi.
Stayed 5 nights in Aug 2024

2/10 Terrible

Claudia

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 6 nights in Apr 2024

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveler

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

清潔感は期待しないでください。

不潔です。チェックインするとすでに虫の死骸がおり、部屋にゴキブリもいます。 シーツはカビのような黒いシミがあり、臭いです。とにかく不潔です。タオルも雑巾のようなタオルが置かれていました。
Stayed 28 nights in Jan 2024

6/10 Okay

Ka Po

Disliked: Staff & service, amenities
首先必須承認此價格住宿～為非常性價比高之選擇🙂 位置：離鍾路5街站步行幾分鐘就到👍而且可以一直步行至東大門區域(尤其適合深夜想要購物及食宵夜之旅客)；雖然附近有紅燈區事業但並無嘈吵/騷擾情況發生～僻靜但未致於感覺危險～ 服務：住宿了六天～由check in至check out～未有見過任何工作人員～可說是全自助形式～ 房間：房內無異味～有地暖及小暖爐保溫～沐浴水溫平穩又水速充足～床鋪都瞓得舒適～唯獨床單及毛巾有污漬(建議使用自備的) 環境：裝潢較殘舊～但安静～以旅館價格而言不應要求太多～個人覺得可以接受～
Stayed 5 nights in Feb 2024

2/10 Terrible

hiromu

Liked: Amenities
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
暖房も効かないのでお陰で風邪をひきました。はっきり言って最悪でした。 安い宿は選ばないようにします
Stayed 5 nights in Dec 2023

2/10 Terrible

Laetitia Peña

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 14 nights in Aug 2023

4/10 Poor

Verified traveler

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities

ゴキブリは確実に出るので覚悟してください

8月の下旬に5泊で利用しました。韓国は慣れており、女性1名です。 【良かった点】 ・基本的にセルフチェックインセルフチェックアウト、荷物もフロント横に自分で預けておけば自由に出入り可能なので楽 ・冷蔵庫は共同ですが大きいサイズなので自分の物を保管できる余裕はあります ・洗濯機が使えるので洗剤もあったようですが私は自分の洗剤を持っていきました。操作方法は翻訳機を使って意外と簡単に使えました、1時間ほどかかります。 【悪かった点】 ・セルフチェックインですが自分の名前がなかったのでメールで問い合わせをした、すぐに返答があったので良かったが、これが返答なかったらどの部屋に入れば良いかわからなかった ・シャワーの排水溝がすぐに詰まって2日目以降から毎日浸水しながらシャワーをした ・排水溝からたくさんの小さなゴキブリや虫がうじゃうじゃ出てきた ・ちょうど良い気温だったのでクーラーをせずに寝ていたら自分の体にゴキブリが這い上がって来て夜中に何度も目が覚めた ・毎日ゴキブリとの戦いだった。最終日に巨大なゴキブリ登場です ・共用スペースのテーブルでご飯を食べていたら目の前にゴキブリがいた ・ゴキジェットスプレーが共用スペースに用意されていたのでそれを使いましたが、やはり出ます、苦手な方は来ないほうが良い ・滞在中、メールを送っても無視される ・各部屋に用意されたTVは普通のテレビが電波がありませんとなりどの電源を入れても見れない。bビデオ？みたいな有料で番組や映画やドラマが見れる機器につながっており、基本テレビは消したままでした。テレビっ子なのでこれはさすがに残念。現地のテレビが見たかった。 ・各個人部屋は共用スペースを囲むように位置しているので、夜遅くに他の宿泊者の話し声や動画を見ている音量などでうるさくて眠れない ・冷蔵庫に入れたものが誰かに飲まれていた、名前は書く必要がある ・入り口から共用スペースまでの匂いがキツイ、独特の匂いでちょっと吐き気がする、部屋に入るとマシになる ・エアコンのクーラーはちょうど良い温度にはなりません、寒すぎるか、消すと暑い、除湿にしても寒い ・トイレは共同です。たまにそのトイレでシャワーをされる人がいるので、2台とも埋まっていたら待たないといけない 以上のことから、それなりに覚悟を持ってきたほうが良いです。もしくはすぐ近隣にある同系列の「スイート」の方がまだ綺麗そうでした。
最終日に出てきた巨大なゴキブリ
排水溝から出てきて息絶えたゴキブリ、ナメクジ？虫たち
排水溝がすぐに詰まります。長期連絡はおすすめしません
Stayed 5 nights in Aug 2023

8/10 Good

Christine

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Good environment and a great stay
Stayed 13 nights in Jul 2023

6/10 Okay

Julian

Stayed 16 nights in Jun 2023

8/10 Good

hiro

Liked: Staff & service
居室の目の前が共用部の部屋に宿泊。 夜中早朝かんけい確実に目が覚める。 スタッフは良い方でした。
Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2023

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveler

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

非常恐怖的旅館

這輩子住過最髒最恐怖的旅館，預定四個晚上，只住了一晚就受不換別間住宿了
Stayed 4 nights in Jun 2023

2/10 Terrible

ByAmmy

Stayed 13 nights in Mar 2023

10/10 Excellent

Phra Itthiyawat

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

6/10 Okay

Verified traveler

Liked: Staff & service, room comfort
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities

Needs a clean

Not sure if it's because of the pandemic or if it's always been like this, but the place really seemed to need a cleaner. Stayed for several days (out of which we stayed two in the hostel the entire day due to having online classes to attend) and didn't see anyone clean any part of the hostel even once, and the bathroom and hallways seemed permanently stained with mud. It also smelled liked cup-ramen in the whole place and me (natural blonde) and my friend (pink haired latina) found black, asian looking hair in one of the beds. Now the place was CHEAP so I wasn't exactly expecting a five star experience, but given that my friend prefered using the public subway bathrooms over the ones in the hostel I think it's fair to be a bit critical.
Stayed 4 nights in Dec 2020

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