COEX Mall, Seoul

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COEX Mall (코엑스몰) is an underground shopping in Gangnam, Seoul. The cinema, the aquarium and the Kimchi Field Museum are famous. The open air area are often use for promotional events.

COEX Mall has aquarium for those marine life lovers. This is huge being greatest theme aquarium in Korea. There's a tunnel with automatic walkway to view the diverse marine life including sharks. Educational concept is adopted wherein they developed "Lectures at Sea" for a learning & entertaining experience.

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COEX Mall is really huge. It has duty free, aquarium, restos, shops as well as convention facilities. More LV bags to choose from than in Lotte World branch. It also has excellent food court. Intercontinental Hotel is also within this complex beside the casino. There's also Hyundai Dept Store. This is the World Trade Center of Seoul.

If every one of you will go to Seoul with yours kids. One of the places you should visit is "COEX Mall". It is an underground shopping mall located in the Gangnam-gu of Seoul, South Korea, and is the largest shopping center in Seoul enclosed for all-weather fun. There is the usual shopping, and a food court with both Korean and “Western” food (pizza, burgers). There are interesting aquariums to explore at the COEX Mall. The aquarium is themed, meaning you explore different zones. For avoiding crowds I suggest you should go there in weekday. The place has a huge shark tank, different kinds of tropical fish. You can take Green subway line to SAMSUNG station. If you follow Korean word exit signs correctly, you get up into the mall without even going outside.

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Yes, you may get lost in this maze of a shopping centre. But there are so many information booths manned (more like "Womanned") by the helpful ladies, directing and giving you the information you need. Its best to get a map of all the stores in the shopping centre.

A little warning tho' , the prices here are a bit on the high side. Its not as cheap as Dondaemun and the other places and you definitely cannot bargain.

What to look out for :
(1) the Megabox Cinema ~ its huge
(2) the aquarium (cost about 15000 Won per adult but its worth it)
(3) a huge stationery warehouse!
(4) the bookstore (too bad most of the books are in korean)

Well if this is not your cup of tea, there is always the The War Memorial

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It was a rainy day and for some reason we really wanted to see a movie. We took the subway to the COEX Mall. People here dress up to go to the mall! The mall itself was huge. We found the movie theatre and bought tickets for Million Dollar Baby. The seats are assigned. Fortunately for us the movie was in English with Korean subtitles.

Coex is a very crowded, young, hip place to hang out at - it is basically an underground complex of shops, cafes, a biiig movie theater, and restaurants (the last of which i find mediocre). The prices really aren't that great, but it does have modern stuff. It's mostly about the hanging out.

COEX Mall is an integrated shopping, culture, education, and leisure complex in the heart of Seoul.

Convention and Exhibition Center (COEX) and World Trade Tower is connected to the Samseong subway station (line 2.

The area has underground dining, shopping, and family entertainment facilities.

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Formerly called the Korea Exhibition Center, the COEX. It was open in 1979,Since then, it has hosted numerous international conventions and exhibitions. Over 150 exhibitions, conventions, and special events are held at the COEX each year. In its spacious exhibition halls and various meeting rooms, the COEX accommodates everything from small company size conferences to world- class summit meetings and international conventions.
With Korea's best facilities and equipment for meeting and exhibitions, the COEX boasts its "state-of-the-art" simultaneous interpretation systems, audio-visual systems,
lighting capabilities, electrical infrastructure,
and telecommunications systems installed in all meeting rooms and exhibition halls.

Seoul's Convention & Exhibition Center offers far more than its convention halls.
There is a giant underground shopping mall, where you can literally spend days wihout being able to see everything and without the need to go outside, including dozens of restaurants, one of Seoul's most popular movie theatres (Megabox) as well as an aquarium, that displays all kind of fish above and beneath your walking path.
It's maybe not the best place to shop (in terms of price) but it's definitely an experience just to go down there. If you are able to find your way through without getting lost, you can be proud of yourself.