Remembering Seongsu only as the handmade shoe street means seeing only half of this neighborhood's industry.
The less visible trades
Throughout the alleys, small manufacturing such as print shops, auto repair garages, and various parts stores has settled in. These trades are less visible than the handmade shoe street, but they actually make up a considerable part of this neighborhood.
A gathering of diverse small-scale manufacturing
Seeing these trades together makes Seongsu's identity as a semi-industrial zone gathering diverse small-scale manufacturing clearer. Walk just one block outside the handmade shoe street and you meet a different face of this neighborhood.