Seoul, the capital of South Korea, is a global city in Asia with valuable cultural heritages and fascinating architectures. The perfect combination between the traditional and modern cultures created the obvious identity of Korean contemporary culture. The many case studies of Seoul architectures and urban designs were the good examples of city developments especially the livable shopping districts where were promoted to be the Seoul walkable city. Therefore, the research objectives were the Seoul contemporary shophouse analysis for studying the urban growth pattern in the capital city including the design guideline of contemporary shophouse in Thailand for the livable shopping districts and the study of Seoul universal design in the shopping districts for Thai urban development of the walkable city. To the research methods, they were the studies of Seoul architectural history and shophouse building regulations in the shopping centers for finding out the design concept of Seoul contemporary shophouse and the Thai urban design guideline of the walkable city. Moreover, this research was expected to present the international ideas of contemporary shopping districts for urban developments in the worldwide cities following the sustainable development goals which were established by the 2030 agenda for sustainable development of United Nations. According that a sustainable development goal of sustainable cities and communities was how to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable as a well-known framework in the urban developments globally.