Oppa Gangham Style

Today, I was the one that planned the activities for the day.  So, today we spent the day in Gangham-gu (yes that Gangham).  We started the day off in the COEX mall which is the biggest mall in Seoul.

This mall is huge.  Its has 4 atrium and plazas, so many stores, a cinema, and an aquarium (in a mall).  The reason we were here was the aquarium.  We started out by wandering up one side of the mall on our way to the aquarium and maybe finding a place to eat lunch.  We ended up in the food court, and it was pretty interesting how it worked.  The food court has about 10 restaurants, and the food court is closed off and the only entrances have these huge touch screens. 

 You order and pay at the touch screen.  

After paying, you get a ticket that has your order on it.  

Then, you get a text alert saying your meal is ready, go turn in your ticket, and you have your food.  

After lunch, we headed off to the aquarium.  

It was a pretty standard aquarium, but they did have the largest individual tank in the world or Asia.  Sorry, I didn't get any pictures of it. I was not thinking about it.  Next, we walked back past the other side of the mall before going to the Hyundai Department Store.  

This is a 9 story tall department store full of everything and anything you can think of.  This place was absolutely unbelievable.  

After this, we went to Samsung headquarters and played around in their "Samsung d'light" which is a place they have that lets you mess around with all of the stuff they are making and developing there.  

The coolest thing they had there was a prototype virtual reality headset to try on.  

The program I did was a city tour of some of the world's most famous cities, and it was pretty realistic for the most part.  Exciting to see where they take this in the future.  I did buy something at the store they had because I could help myself.  

It only cost me 5,000 won ($4.60).  

It is actually a 8 GB flash drive.  I though this thing was pretty cool.