AK Plaza (Korean: AK플라자) is a South Korean department store franchise owned by the Aekyung Industrial Co. Ltd. Hyung-suk Chah (채형석) began construction of the first department store in March 1991 in Guro District, Seoul.

[1] The success of the Guro store was allegedly used as the basis for opening other branches.

[3] In July 2000, Aekyung Group was chosen to open a store in Incheon International Airport after Hotel Shilla gave up its subcontractor rights.

[5] In March 2007, the Aekyung Group took over ₩470 billion's ($461,596,000) worth of intermediary business from Samsung C&T Corporation, including the Samsung Plaza, the first department store in Bundang-gu[6] which had opened on November 1, 1997.

[7] On February 3, 2009, the Aekyung Group announced it will change its brand image to AK Plaza.