Seoul Book Bogo

Seoul Book Bogo (서울책보고, ―冊寶庫) is a book-culture space and secondhand bookstore in Sincheon-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul, South Korea. It is operated by the Seoul Metropolitan Government as a public complex cultural space. The venue was created by renovating a former Amway logistics warehouse that had stood empty for about ten years, and it opened on 27 March 2019. Its interior is known for a distinctive arrangement of 32 bookshelves and arched passageways. Through 2024 the space operated primarily as a used-book bookstore. After that period the original secondhand bookstore business was concluded, and from 2025 the venue shifted to a new format centered on 'pop-up bookshelves' and 'curated bookshelves.' The book cafe area is also slated to be made more comfortable, and a range of reading and cultural programs are being prepared so that citizens can enjoy a rich book-centered cultural experience. The official website presents two locations: Seoul Book Bogo in Jamsil, described with the tags secondhand books and book-culture space, and Seoul Art Book Bogo in Gocheok, described with the tags art books and complex cultural space. As a publicly run book-culture venue, Seoul Book Bogo functions less as a conventional commercial retailer and more as a municipal cultural facility dedicated to books, reading, and public programming.

Seoul Book Bogo occupies a building that was originally an Amway logistics warehouse. The warehouse had reportedly been empty for about ten years before it was selected for redevelopment into a book-culture space. The renovation transformed the structure into a distinctive interior featuring 32 bookshelves and arched passageways. The venue opened on 27 March 2019 as a book-culture space in Sincheon-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul, operated by the Seoul Metropolitan Government. From its opening through 2024, Seoul Book Bogo operated primarily as a secondhand bookstore, functioning as a used-book destination within the city. After that period, the original secondhand bookstore business was concluded, and from 2025 the venue transitioned to a new format centered on 'pop-up bookshelves' and 'curated bookshelves.' As part of this transition, the book cafe space was to be improved to be more comfortable, and various reading and cultural programs were planned so that citizens could enjoy a rich book-centered cultural experience. The official website also presents a second location, Seoul Art Book Bogo in Gocheok, described as an art-book and complex cultural space, alongside the Jamsil location. Together these reflect the Seoul Metropolitan Government's use of book-centered venues as public cultural infrastructure.

• 2025

  From 2025 the venue shifted to a new format centered on pop-up bookshelves and curated bookshelves, with improvements planned for the book cafe and reading and cultural programs.

• 2024

  The venue operated primarily as a secondhand bookstore through 2024, after which the original used-bookstore business was concluded.

• 2019

  Seoul Book Bogo opened on 27 March 2019 in a renovated former Amway logistics warehouse in Sincheon-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul.

A publicly operated book-culture space and secondhand bookstore, positioned as a municipal complex cultural venue rather than a purely commercial retailer.

• Secondhand books

• Curated bookshelves

• Pop-up bookshelves

• Book cafe

• Reading and cultural programs

1. 1서울책보고seoulbookbogo.kr
2. 2Seoul Book Bogowikidata.org
3. 3서울책보고ko.wikipedia.org