The bootmaker works from a plastic hut on the street. The hut is quite well equipped with his tools, a small stove for heating the glue and warming his customers like me, and all the bits of his trade, and it could be easily broken into, but in Korea, this just does not happen.

He charged me $3.00 for new heels, and $10 for an entire sole and heel for my boots. Then he charged me $3 to polish my boots, so worked out that that is his basic charge for most jobs.

He is very skilled at what he does, and works very efficiently and quickly. You give him your shoes, and he gives you some slippers to wear, and you sit there and watch him work.

He is rather fascinating...he is a little person.