After working all morning, we decided to spend the afternoon
at Shinsegae (pronounced "Shin-say-gay"), the world’s largest department store. This place is absolutely massive. It is over 500,000 m2, making it
nearly twice as big as the Mall of America.
It has 10 floors of merchandise, and like 4 floors just for a golf
driving range. It has absolutely everything.
There are clothes on every floor, including the brands Calvin Klein, The
North Face, H&M, Gap, Nike, Adidas, Puma, Crocs, Armani, etc. It also has 2 food courts, a grocery store, a
food market, and an entire E-Mart inside.
The food court has Burger King, Baskin Robbins, Dunkin Donuts, KFC, and
several other Korean/Chinese/Specialty restaurants. I think we went up and down the entire place
twice just making sure we covered everything.
There’s a mattress section, a bookstore, a movie theater, an ice rink,
appliances, accessories – basically, there’s everything you could ever think of
and more, including a Sky Garden on the 9th floor.
One of the best parts is that as a Foreigner you can take
your passport to the Information desk and they give you a coupon book. Then before you leave, you take back a
receipt, and they give you a free tote bag! There is no limit to how many you
can get as long as it is on different days.
And since Korean stores don’t give you bags with your purchases, these
tote bags come in handy pretty much every day.
There really isn’t a whole lot more to say about this place,
because the pictures really do say it all.
Enjoy!
Welcome to Shinsegae! This is just the entrance! There is an entire Subway stop that comes out in this store.
This shot is not even from the top floor!
Touch screen wall by the movies
View from the Garden on the roof
Other view from the garden
The Sky Garden
Our big purchase - two books that were wrapped like this by the cashier
Ice Skating Rink
Another view of a small portion of the store
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