COEX Mall

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The COEX Mall is an underground shopping and entertainment center in the district of Gangnam in Seoul . It belongs to the World Trade Center Seoul, a large building complex that also includes the COEX Convention & Exhibition Center, the ASEM Tower, the Trade Tower (appears briefly in Psy's Gangnam Style music video), the Grand InterContinental Hotel, the Oakwood Premier Hotel , the InterContinental Seoul COEX, the Seven Luck Casino, the Millenium Plaza, and the Hyundai Department Store. The COEX Mall, which was renovated between 2012 and 2014 and is operated by the Korea International Trade Association (KITA), is the world's largest underground shopping center with 165,000 m² (equivalent to around 15 soccer fields). The shopping center includes 204 shops, 91 restaurants, a multiplex cinema and a show aquarium (COEX aquarium). In addition, spacious squares were built in the course of the renovation: Central Plaza, Live Plaza, Millenium Plaza, Asem Plaza and Airport Plaza. The COEX Mall is open between 10:30 am and 10:00 pm and is best reached via underground line 2.

COEX Mall (2007) before renovation (2012-2014)

The stores are fashion, outdoor, and sporting goods stores. But there are also shops where shoes, bags, jewelry, cosmetics, books and pictures are sold. The restaurants offer Korean, Asian and Western specialties. There are also cafes, desserts and bakeries.

There are critical voices saying that the expensive renovation (US $ 250 million) has led to rising rental prices and falling sales. 20 tenants, including Coffee Smith and shoe retailer Landrover, moved out within a year of opening. A daycare employee said that sales actually fell at the beginning of 2015, but are increasing again. The Kimchi Museum, which is particularly interesting for tourists, was closed in 2013.

Seoul's city planners want to build another gigantic underground shopping center in addition to the COEX Mall and turn it into a national center for meetings, conferences and events ( MICE industry). In addition, an underground six-storey transit zone the size of the COEX Mall is to be built next to it by 2021, through which 90 bus lines and six underground / KTX express train lines are to pass.

In 2016, the Shinsegae Group acquired the rights to operate the COEX Mall for the next ten years.

Web links

Commons : COEX Seoul  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About COEX Mall. (No longer available online.) COEX Mall, archived from the original on June 13, 2015 ; accessed on June 3, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.coexmall.com
  2. ↑ StoreInfo. (No longer available online.) COEX Mall, archived from the original on June 3, 2016 ; accessed on June 3, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.coexmall.com
  3. ^ Suk Gee-hyun: Coex slammed for wasting W300b in renewal. The Korea Herald, August 17, 2015, accessed June 3, 1016 .
  4. ↑ Goodbye Kimchi Museum ... * sniff sniff *. In: Derek versus Lonely Planet. August 14, 2013, accessed June 2, 2016 (blog).
  5. ↑ Park Si-soo: Seoul to build new underground shopping mall near COEX. The Korea Times, August 16, 2015, accessed June 3, 2016 .
  6. ^ Yoo Seong-woon: Vast underground transit complex planned for Gangnam. Korea Joongang Daily, May 5, 2016, accessed June 3, 2016 .
  7. ^ Son Il-seon: Shinsegae Group to run COEX Mall over next 10 years. Pulsenews, July 28, 2016, accessed September 29, 2016 .

Coordinates: 37 ° 30 ′ 43 ″  N , 127 ° 3 ′ 32 ″  E