Cheongna optician: light travel sunglasses for Mom, Hwangseonsaeng

I visited Hwangseonsaeng Angyeong Lensme Ruwon City Branch (황선생안경 렌즈미 루원시티점), an optical shop in Cheongna, Incheon.

• Address: 437 Gajeong-ro, Seohae-gu, Incheon
• Hours: daily 10:00-20:00
• Parking: free in the shopping-arcade car park

Parking and how to find Hwangseonsaeng near Gajeong Station

Hwangseonsaeng Angyeong Lensme Ruwon City Branch is close to Gajeong Station, and if you drive, you can park in the building's underground car park for free. Enter through the car park entrance by the convenience store, park, walk out and turn right. Easy to find!

Mom is going on a trip to Vietnam, and since it's her first time abroad she's super excited and wanted to buy good sunglasses as a travel fashion item. So we rushed over to this Cheongna optician to shop for sunglasses.

Eyeglass and sunglass brands at Hwangseonsaeng

At Hwangseonsaeng Angyeong Lensme Ruwon City Branch you can buy both glasses and contact lenses. It carries a wide range of imported brands: Tom Ford, Lunor, Anne et Valentin, Thom Browne, Mykita, Cutler and Gross, Kamemannen, Ivan, Masunaga, Geumja Angyeong (금자안경), Moscot, Hamann Optical, Garrett Leight, Julius Tart, Oakley and Rudy Project. It's a great place to shop for glasses as a fashion item.

The shop has a classy feel, and the friendly staff guided us, so it was easy to choose designs in a relaxed way.

If you book through Naver before visiting and write a receipt review, you get an extra 5% off, which is nice. Besides the imported brands, there are Korean house brands too: Rawrow, Public Beacon, Lapis Sensible, Tetsuo and Specs Montana. It's a vision-specialist optical shop that designs around the customer's lifestyle.

How much was the Tom Ford sunglasses flat-price sale?

When we visited, Hwangseonsaeng Angyeong Lensme Ruwon City Branch was running a Tom Ford sunglasses flat-price event, so you could snag a pair for ₩389,000. That's much cheaper than a department store.

Want light sunglasses? Fit sunglass lenses into an eyeglass frame

If sunglasses feel heavy, Hwangseonsaeng Angyeong Lensme Ruwon City Branch can fit sunglass lenses into an eyeglass frame for you. Mom, while browsing sunglasses, knew exactly the style she wanted: light, slim and clean in design. Fashion sunglasses tend to have some weight, so when I said she wanted a light sunglasses frame, the staff suggested this method.

I worried it might be too expensive, but the frames come at ₩30,000, ₩50,000, ₩70,000 and ₩90,000, so choosing was easy.

High myopia and progressive lens consultation, plus precise exams

Hwangseonsaeng Angyeong Lensme Ruwon City Branch is a Cheongna optician specializing in high myopia, and everything from the far more precise exam to fitting the glasses was good, much more than at other shops. They also specialize in progressive lenses, so it was a good place to ask all my questions.

The waiting area is totally neat too, with a cushy sofa that made waiting comfortable.

Are there kids' glasses and colored contact lenses too?

Hwangseonsaeng Angyeong Lensme Ruwon City Branch has glasses for kids too. I've worn glasses since I was little, and wow, there's so much more variety in designs than back in my day (haha, "라떼" as we say).

I wear contact lenses when I go out. The colored lenses came in a variety of designs and the prices weren't scary, so they're perfect as one-month lenses.

This is a Cheongna optician in Incheon where you can get a precise eye exam: Hwangseonsaeng Angyeong Lensme Ruwon City Branch.

Mom's exam after eye surgery and how to wear sunglasses

Until last year Mom had to wear hard lenses and glasses. She had eye surgery in winter and no longer needs lenses, but she still got another careful exam at Hwangseonsaeng Angyeong Lensme Ruwon City Branch, and we double-checked how to wear sunglasses too.

Mom kept pushing her sunglasses up to her eyebrows, so I told her two, three times that they look prettier worn slightly slipping down the nose. Then she scored the pair she wanted!

If you're a Cheongna glasses nomad, Hwangseonsaeng Angyeong Lensme Ruwon City Branch is worth a visit. The wide range of brands, Geumja Angyeong frames and careful exams all left me satisfied.