28 November 2022
OK now it is raining
COEX underground mall
It is raining properly now. First proper rain on my trip. This is update number 52 with probably 4 or 5 to go. I do not think any other update will be impacted by rain as it is due to stop at 5am tomorrow. So 1 out of 57 aint bad. I had a similar experience back in May when I was last here.
Because of the rain, I headed to the largest underground place I know of, so large it has a running track running through a shopping centre. It should be familiar to all as I have been there at least 4 times prior as I usually stay in a hotel quite near it.
The COEX mall has everything you could want, a roof, a running track, 150 places to eat your dinner, a subway station on the same line as my hotel on the completely other side of the city, an aquarium, a casino, an eggslut, everything.
Because of the rain, and because I have been here so many times prior, hardly any photos, and they are so poor I did not really even look at them before uploading.
Tomorrow is probably a mini hiking day...
I came up for air briefly, still raining.
I saw eggslut on my last trip to Korea in a different location. They are expanding rapidly.
The healthiest dinner of this trip. There isn't even any rice! Expensive though, I think it was over $10. Most of Korea had the same idea as me, it is raining, head to somewhere underground. I decided the best tactic was to eat right on 6pm as many places already had big lines. It was either here, eggslut or burger king.
I am still amused that this giant underground mall has a running track through it, people do run on it to be funny and take photos, and they do run into other people doing it.
Final pic is inside the giant bookshop. Last time they had a flower garden, this time, xmas obviously. Presumably they had a Halloween theme that was removed pretty quickly after the Itaewon tragedy.