9 April 2019
Wet mall
Escaping the rain at the Coex mall and Hyundai department store
Now it is raining, really raining. I got really wet, and went to the mall.
On the way there people looked at me like I was a special kind of idiot, walking along getting wet without an umbrella without even screaming a little bit.
Once I got to the mall, the security guy opening the door looked uncertain as to if he should even let me in. Seriously, I was only mildly saturated, no water running off me.
I had been to this mall before, maybe both times I have been to Korea previously, I think possibly when it was raining then also. I think its now contains a lot more shops and entertainment than on previous visits, and as you will see, theres a really really fancy Hyundai department store there now, as well as lots of hotels, a casino, aquarium, cinema, you get the idea.
When I went to walk home again, after an hour or so underground it was raining even harder, too hard even for this hardened rain fan to brave in the cold. So I took the subway most of the way leaving only a short dash to the hotel door. The hotel staff were not thrilled when I entered their lobby slightly drowned.
Behold, a photo of the rain! Everyone loves a random photo of the rain.
At each major intersection I crossed the street by going through the subway station. In this one I decided to take a mugshot, and WHAT A MUGSHOT IT IS!
This is quite an unusual mall. It is all underground, and very very spacious. You can really walk a long way in here.
I chose a noodle specialist place for dinner, they were making their own noodles. I chose spicy beef, and it was great! The game was find the beef, but that was ok, I enjoyed the noodles a lot.
The mall also has a large very flash free to use library. Too bad I cant read Korean.
How would you pronounce that?
As mentioned, I stumbled into the Hyundai department store. Yes, the same as the car company, in Korea they are everything, not just cars. This was probably the flashiest department store I have ever been in, fancier than anything I can think of in Japan, possibly because it is newer.
It had a truly epic supermarket. And lots of guards telling me no photo.
After exiting Hyundai world, I found a fancy food court area back in the mall. If its still raining tomorrow, I can come back here, hang out in the food court, go to the library, swim in the aquarium, drive a Hyundai around a supermarket.