Gentleman's Seoul Reviews 92

Great clothes, good fit

The clothes in the image and the ones delivered aren’t even in the same universe. The photo sells a product; the package contains cheap factory junk straight out of China.

The quality is so bad. Why would someone pay that much just to get aliexpress crap

Simple and easy process. Would recommend for future

I recently ordered two pairs of pants (same category, different colors) and two shirts from your website, and I’m quite disappointed.
First, the pants are labeled “Made in China,” which is not what I expected when ordering from your brand. Also, despite being the same category and size (L), the two pairs don’t have the same leg length at all this is unacceptable and should be clearly stated.
As for the shirts, the colors are much duller than shown on the website, which is misleading.
On top of that, the clothes are extremely static, which is unusual and unpleasant to wear.
Considering the price I paid (€241.80), the quality does not match at all. Very disappointing experience.

I really like the overall style and aesthetic of Gentleman’s Seoul. The designs are clean, minimal, and match the look I’ve been trying to build. A few of the pieces I received were especially nice in terms of fit and silhouette, and the brand’s design direction is strong. I appreciate the modern, Korean‑inspired styling and hope to see more from the brand in future collections.

I bought number 142, the shirt in the image seem to have better quality or thicker. Compare to the one deliver. But, the quality deliver is do able or not bad. Except the needle work is abit poor

Fast responsive, love the clothes

Really nice clothes and designs! The staff were helpful and friendly with the requests too.

Been trying to improve my daily wear for work. The clothes fit very well and I feel like are true to size on the measurements on the website. The fabric feels nice and is not itchy on my skin. My order arrived nicely packaged in a bag came in a reasonable amount of time.

This is my final review. The previous ones exposed the structural deception at the core of this operation. Since then, the store has continuously updated its FAQ, refined its language, and introduced a more polished version of the same script. But nothing essential has changed. The supply chain is still hidden. The pricing is still unjustifiable. And the so-called “curation” is still just strategic concealment, now exist in softer wording.

They don’t design. They don’t produce. They don’t own stock. They don’t inspect batches at scale. They don’t manufacture in-house. They don’t reveal their suppliers before checkout. But they still charge premium prices as if they do. That’s not transparency. That’s narrative control. And this time, it’s even more calculated.

They claim to source from Chinese brands like MRCYC, CHICERRO, DAZO, and HOZI. All of them are publicly accessible on wholesale platforms like 1688, Taobao, and Tmall. These are mass-manufactured products, available to anyone (including you) for a tiny fraction of the price. But the moment you land on their site, that supply chain is deliberately erased. This isn’t an oversight. It’s structural design. They style themselves as a “bridge between Eastern design and Western wardrobes,” but in truth, the translation is simple: “We hide the source so we can multiply the price.”

To justify their markups, they offer pre-packaged phrases like “we handpick,” “we sample,” “we do customer service,” “we pay for ads and logistics.” None of these explain a tenfold price increase. Real Taobao sellers- the same ones they secretly source from- do all of that already, at 1/10-1/20 of the price. Markups are only justified when genuine value is created: proprietary design, original production, ethical verification, tailored craftsmanship, or direct oversight of supply. This store offers none of that. What it does is filter, rename, reprice and hope you don’t trace the thread.

Let’s be honest. They will never link to the original listings. They will never show their inspection process. They will never disclose their cost breakdown. Because the profit only exists if the customer remains in the dark. The moment you trace the origin, the entire illusion collapses. That is the point. It is not about style. It is about what has been deliberately hidden. If they believed in real transparency, they’d link to the original listings. If they added actual value, they’d show you the inspection and QA process. If they stood behind their pricing, they’d disclose the cost structure. They don’t. Because the entire business depends on your ignorance of the source. They profit only if you never find where it really came from. That’s not a style operation. That’s a concealment mechanism.

Even their blog is part of the theater. The lifestyle advice, the identity-building content, the essays about masculinity and refinement. This is all designed to build emotional credibility around a hollow transaction. They sell aesthetics, not garments. They sell a feeling of curation, not actual curation. The blog functions as set dressing for a storefront that doesn’t control, design, or even physically inspect its inventory at scale. And here’s the unsettling part: the author might even believe it. They may have repeated the performance so often, dressed it up in so much poetic language, that he’s convinced himself it’s real. That’s how deception works at the highest level. It isn’t always malicious in tone. It’s self-hypnosis with a margin. The illusion becomes internalized. The story they tell customers is the same story they tell themselves that selection equals authorship, that repackaging equals creativity, that rerouting wholesale products equals high-value contribution. But no amount of self-styled taste can change structural truth.

This is not a business misunderstood by its critics. This is a business that survives by keeping its customers misinformed. The model depends on concealment. The margin lives in ambiguity. And every time that ambiguity is challenged, they adjust the surface but never the structure. That is not how honest businesses behave. That is how systems of deception adapt.

So here it is again, in plain logic, one last time. They know where it comes from. They know how much it costs. They know you don’t. Their job is to keep it that way. Everything else including the writing, the branding, the talk of curation all exists to maintain that gap - the margin.

This isn’t about taste. This isn’t about aesthetics. This is about intent. They are not just hiding the truth. They are doubling down on the act of hiding it. And calling that “style.”

I bought the Beige sweater for a date, looked pretty darn good if I may say so myself. I got complimented on it when I went to work, so I thought overall this is a great purchase! I didn't notice any defects in the fabric overall, and it was pretty much what was advertised.

Great Service

Love the styles. Very different from what you can get at an average apparel store.

Material is slightly lower quality than one would expect as in images. Other than that, good product. May be dropshipped.

Size wise the jeans are a perfect fit. Delivery was a little long, but due to the shipping origin it’s understandable. I read reviews prior to ordering so I wasn’t expecting speedy delivery. Quality and size of jeans are top notch!

I love the quality of the clothes, I will buy again

First time purchase and exceed my expectation, very nice trousers indeed, nice fitting and comfy, will definitely purchase from them again

I purchased the brown suede puffer jacket and I will say the material is the softest suede I have ever seen. The zipper was high quality and didnt get caught at all while I was messing with it. Will definitely buy more items in the future since it came relatively fast and the materials were all high quality for a cheap price.