Coex Mall

Because summer is around, the weather is getting hot. People started to wear sleeveless, shorts, and sandals! But even though weather is giving you hard time to walk around, there are still places that you can fulfill your needs inside with nice air conditioning :P

This place is called Coex Mall (코엑스몰, Coex for short form). Pretty much it has everything such as theater (Megabox), bookstore (Bandi & Luni's), museum, shopping mall, and aquarium that all the landmarks must have!

Also many exhibitions and fairs are going on all year around such as Character Fair, Design Fair, etc. from exhibition hall.

The location of Coex Mall at line 2 (green line) Samsung Station. From Hongik Univ. Station, take line 2 and get off at Samsung Station. You don't need to transfer so it's very easy to get here. And take exit 6 at Samsung Station.

Entertain yourself at one-stop and try to see the fair if the time period allows :)


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Daehak-ro

Near Hongdae, there is also a place where great amount of artists are gathered together.  It is "Daehak-ro" (대학로) and this place is known for plays from little theaters. But not only the play, they also have comedies or other smaller scaled concerts :) And for the positive side of this is that you can encounter the high quality cultural art, and the sitting is very close with the stage so you can even hear their breathes!

Daehak-ro has many little theaters, so you can find the play or concert or whatever you want to see; but also they have many place to eat. Since Daehak-ro was and still is the center of cultural art for long long time, there are restaurants with long history. Have a date with your loved one with a play then a restaurant - what a perfect date course!

Also Marronnier Park is near by. Marronnier Park is like a symbol of Daehak-ro. The park is included with children's playground, outdoor stage, pond, fountain, convenient stores, etc. For the outdoor stage, mainly many amateur singers are performing their music. 

Marronnier Park was also featured in <MBC We Got Married>, where Jo Jeongchi and Jung In met for first time in from the show. 

You can also see the street artists often in the area :) 

Daehak-ro is located in subway line 4 Hyehwa Station (혜화역). So take subway at line 2 (green line) at Hongik Univ. Station (홍대입구역), then transfer to line 4 (light blue line) at Dongdaemun History & Culture Park Station (동대문역사문화공원역). Off at Hyehwa Station (혜화역) then exit 1. Then you'll see Daehak-ro. 

So how about a walk in Marronnier Park and see some interesting performances?

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Hongdae Sangsang Madang

It's Friday afternoon in Korea and Hongdae area is getting crowded because everywhere in Hongdae area, there are full of things to see, eat, and have fun! 

One of place I'll talk about today is KT&G Sangsang Madang (상상마당, literally: Sangsang garden). It is a multi-culture complex that provides movie theater, live hall for concert, gallery, academy, studio, cafe and art shops with great amount of design/art products. 

The entrance of Sangsang Madang. Somewhat creative looking building from outside.

Located in basement floor (B4), where you can see the indie films and all the hidden film works you'd never seen from the theater. 

Art shop with bunch of creative products in first floor. Because of this, I get to spend all my money from it! :P

And the place to read books in different contents.

Or the art gallery! This image is the exhibit from a while ago. But can you see that little photo right next to the frame? That's a photo of a baby sleeping. Isn't it such a joyful art work where the artist described the baby as a sleeping animal?

The location of Sangsang Madang is shown in the map below:

Address: 65 Eoulmadang-ro (367-5 Seogyo-dong), Mapo-gu, Seoul
Hours: 12-11pm

It's about 10 min walk from Trick Eye Museum, but it doesn't mean that it's that far - because of all those shopping and food places, it takes about that long until you reach at Sangsang Madang from Trick Eye Museum.

Personally, I would say that Sangsang Madang is good for friends but also for the family. Parents are watch film together and children are reading the books, then at lastly, buy souvenir from art shop :)

I'll keep post more places of the area around our museum to show you around of this area. Until then, have great weekend!


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