KMK: COEX Mall

COEX is a gigantic shopping complex located in the high priced gangnam area of Seoul. If you’re ready to do some extreme power shopping then COEX might just be the place for you to empty your wallet and leave your credit cards into burning twisted puddles of plastic from all the action.

The hundreds of clothing stores will fatten your wardrobe until it’s bursting. If you’re thinking of a new look COEX will be your playground. Want that latest hip hop video look? It can be yours. Feeling preppy? COEX can have you rubbing elbows with the Ivy league or at least looking like you do. COEX has it all, except size 16 shoes.

After your recovering from your shopping spree COEX has lots still to do. There is a huge aquarium. The fish range from fresh to salt water all the way to sharks and manta rays. There is a 16 screen cineplex playing the latest foreign and domestic films. Several themed cafeterias offer your choice of international foods. You might want to drop in the international bookstore or the the Kimchi museum if you just have to explore every nook and cranny.

COEX also has a few huge convention halls. These halls provide a space for things like the international Auto show, the Korean Design expo, and even a world wide DJ rave party.

I can’t forget to mention the hotel right inside of the mall. The grand COEX international hotel is the height of luxury and sensuousness. If you want to indulge yourself then that’s where you want to be. Gourmet food, silky sheets, and masseuses’ waiting to pound out every inch of that bad day all await you at the Grand. You will feel like royal, or maybe royalty’s concubine or royalty’s poor second cousin whose friend happened to be staying there.

In any case no matter how you get there it’s worth it just to see how the other half live. You know you’re in a stratospheric economic bracket when the women walk around in so much fur that they look like Wookie extras from Star Wars. Who could pass that up?

Go to COEX!