Foreigners Marketing

After the spa, I met up with my friends in Itaewon for overpriced Mexican food. It was pretty good mainly because the portions were massive. I was pleasently surprised, but not too happy about the cost. Food here is usually so inexpensive, this was a shock. Regardless, it was the start to a good night. Here they are in the subway station, as we moved from Itaewon to Dongdaemeun for another attempt at mastering the Night Market.

Once we got to Dongdaemeun and settled at the mall-based centre, we split up into a few groups. Some of us wanted to stick around the seemingly daylighted centre (these pictures were taken at around midnight without a flash. They keep this place hopping all night long), while others wanted to see the designer knockoff section. Here's a view of the street, market to the right, mall to the left. As you can see, even at midnight, there are a lot of humans ready to spend money.

Directly to the left of the sidewalk picture, this is the tower of food shoppes sandwiched between sections of Doota Department Store. However, it is mainly coffee shoppes that litter this area, few actually serving more than scones and muffins. It's so cute to me: this wicked tower equipped with a balcony on some levels, and all they serve is coffee. To think I can hardly find coffee in stores after seeing this apparent fascination just boggles my mind. I guess that's the allure of Korea, eh? Yeah, I said, "Korea, eh?"

I thought this was so hilarious (and quite random). I know it isn't nice to make fun of them for making an English sign that doesn't make sense, but it is pretty great. Socks Day? What does that even mean? There was no store to which this sign was adjacent, so I'm not sure what it was advertising, pointing out, or leading to. It was pretty funny.
This is what the night market looks like, for the most part. It is stall after stall of everything from gym socks to fake Marc Jacobs purses. It's pretty neat.

Nothing worth mentioning caught my eye. However, I had a pretty good time.