During the second week of my vacation, I have been sleeping in late, going to the gym and generally just chilling out.
Last night, I decided to go and check out Coex Mall. I was told by a lot of people that it is quite an impressive place and they were not wrong at all!
Double locking doors on the subway, to stop the 'jumpers' who occassionally want to commit suicide.......weird eh.
It is massive. There are so many shops and especially food courts. It has a cinema inside of it as well as an aquarium. Most of the stores were either shut or shutting when I got there.
Check out the price of gas. 1670 won, is the equivalent of 2 dollars. That is a litre!!!!!
I got there about 8pm or so. The amount of detail in some of the stores and the floors of the mall and the overall detail to design of the columns and different areas, was impressive.
There were some really neat advertising banners and pictures as well as some really 'funky' looking stores. The pictures that I have on here, are of all different kinds of stuff, but most of them, I hope, capture the money that has been put in to building this kind of mall.
There is every kind of store that you could imagine, as well as a huge library that features a full-on english section. You can buy any kind of novel there or history book and the prices are in the middle range. If anyone ever wants to buy an english book, new that is, then the book store at Coex is the place to go.
There is a bookstore in Haebongchon, which is just around the corner from Itaewon and it is a second-hand bookstore that is full of all kinds of books. It is worth checking out and the prices are really reasonable.
There is a hotel in the Coex Mall as well as a trade tower. I didn't go and look at the trade tower, but stepped outside the mall for a moment and encountered the "Lucky 7 Casino." Again, a very impressive building, but I didn't go inside, of course. Anyone that knows me, knows that one thing I am definitely not, is a gambler.......haha.
Met up with the fella that I work with, Isaiah, at Geckos. Isaiah is off to the Philipines on Wednesday. The poor guy got his motorcycle stolen from our school! He had the thing about 1 week!!!! There is no way that he will get it back. That is one thing here in Korea that happenes a lot; motorcycles and scooters getting stolen. The only way to prevent them from doing it, is to buy a really good chain-lock, which is a big deterrernt because they can't roll the bike down the street then. They would have to lift it onto a truck or something and they wouldn't be able to do that with the weight of a motorcycle. Needless to say, Isaiah didn't have a lock!
Entrance to the 'Megabox' cinema. Quite flashy, I would say!
No plan for today, other than going to the gym and working out. Finished reading the book, 'The Face.' I am now working on finished the other book, "Rose Madder." I am not reading as much now as I am not on the subway going to work back and forth. It is funny how you get into a habit and out of a habit, so quickly.
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