12 April 2026
Roof garden dinosaurs
Shinsegae department store
Obviously, since it is my last night in Daejeon, there was only one place to go, the Shinsegae department store to hang out with the dinosaurs in the roof garden! This is one of the greatest bucket list experiences of top 10 roof gardens to do before you die that involve dinosaurs or fomo.
Actually I have been to the roof garden before, during the day, and it is indeed one of the best roof gardens I know of. Around the world many are closing due to too many people jumping or being thrown off, or throwing things at the traffic below, or crashing drones into incoming aircraft or shining lasers at girls to impress them etc. But here in Daejeon, you can still get up to the roof and do all of those things.
Other than that, I had dinner in the basement, which was ok, walked over the bridge, walked around the store and mall above the store, but mainly it was all about the roof garden.
Right out the front of city hall, a legoland protest (closed on Sunday). They LOVE a protest in Korea.
This ladder goes to the roof of the crab house, for no reason at all. There are oversized human figurines playing on the ladder and the roof. The plastic guard to stop drunken idiots from climbing it is unlikely to stop too many drunken idiots from climbing it.
My destination is on the left.
It looks like a giant box. The woman in the ad appears to be wearing a leather smock.
The basement is as always, the casual dining area. The lighting is really interesting, it makes it appear as though it is daylight, quite surreal, no shadows.
My dinner is an eggplant rice bowl. It needed Gochujang, but none was on offer. Still it was ok.
Now for the roof, and the sunset. You can see in all directions. That is the science museum down there, been there before.
It is a large multi level roof garden.
With dinosaurs! Also check out the sunset.
Still the roof garden. It bothers me that the hotel is not lined up with the walkway. Move the hotel!
Below the roof again, and the upper levels are basically a normal mall, lower levels are all department store.
Tomorrow I go to Jeonju, I have not been there before, it is a tourist town for playing dress ups. Perhaps I will wear a strange Korean ancient cowboy hat?