#sm coex artium

[jaehyun-updates]

200606 NCT Jaehyun at SM COEX Artium‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ © chocolate do not edit, crop, or remove the watermark

[dreamingintherain39]

150718 Taeyeon @ SM Coex artium

[periwinklegirls]

160110 ❀ At the SM Coex Artium © LUNARIAN l do not edit

[ohsehun-exo]

191212 EXO Sehun at SM COEX Artium © windy side do not edit, crop, or remove the watermark

[nct-leetaeyong]

200606 NCT Lee Taeyong at SM Coex Artium‬‬‬‬‬ © centricity do not edit, crop, or remove the watermark

[ultrakdramamama]

Message board outside SM COEX Artium: 

"Dear. SHINee World Thank you for this precious time that we walked together. I love you. From. SHINee 

✨ We LOVE YOU TOO ✨

cr: keyandmery

[sm-lucas]

180214 NCT Lucas at SM COEX Artium © double trouble do not edit, crop, or remove the watermark

[minyo129]

180528 MINHO at SM Coex for it Live

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[kristis28]

180413 South Korea (Day 13)

Today was, my in humble opinion, the best day of the trip so far. We woke up ridiculously early, in my case because I was so excited. We chatted with the parents who are 13h behind us in time difference. A little after 9am we left for destination 1 on my kpop tour. Cofioca. On our way there we walked K-Star road and I had my brother take pictures of me. I also discovered SM identity experience building which opens at 11am. We arrived at Cofioca and I was amazed the place is filled with signatures but also notably filled with exo stickers. I noticed more Sehun stickers and posters than other members. I tried finding Baekhyun’s signature but I wasn’t able to, simply too many! But I found just about every other members signature. I asked the lady what Baekhyun’s favourite drink is and he likes the Taro bubble tea. Only the lord knows what Taro is (I’ll google it later). I wanted baekhyuns drink but I also really wanted he chocolate one sehun likes, been dreaming about it for at least a year. One of my brothers got mango bubble tea and the other didn’t order any so I just ordered two for me. My brother and I kind of shared the chocolate one cause man those things are filling. Also turns our Taro is absolutely delicious and I can see why baekhyun likes it. All in all I’m forever ruined for bubble tea in Canada back home nothing will ever compare.

After this we wandered over to SUM cafe, but decided to actually stop there on the way back from COEX. So off to COEX it was. Literally such a heaven. Not only were they playing CBX’s new album the entire time but they also had corgi merchandise and I live corgis. We spent hours at SMTOWN COEX and I easily spent 150$ and that was controlling myself. Would have bought the baekhyun pillow case but it was sold out. So was CBX’s Album but really who is surprised. Not me. I bought this water bottle where you pick the colour and then when you purchase it you pick the hashtag you want. I picked #weareone and the way the guy applied the hashtag I don’t have much faith in it staying on the bottle for too long. SUM market has an area where you can buy personalized phone cases but the process was too difficult and took too long to do. So I opted to not do that. Then we wandered up to the 5th floor where they have the trick eye stuff and the hands. The hand reading compatibility thing was so extremely cheesy but also really fun and funny. Apparently I’m a 91% match with baekhyun but my best match is Seulgi and then Lay. I didn’t manage to find Jonghyuns wall cause I couldn’t really figure out how to go upstairs. Probably best though I would have been an emotional mess likely and gotten really sad. In other news, the idols hands are all so small if their hand moulds are to be believed. Outside they also had an engraved wall with their hand prints. I was shocked Chanyeols hand is basically the same size as mine and everyone else was pretty small. Also something was going on with xiumin’s finger in the hand mould it was like popping out. In SUM market they had cakes on display that you could not buy and I really should have taken a picture cause damn those cakes looked good. 3D exo stage cake! I want one! After spending loads of time at SMTOWN, even though I could definitely spend more time there, we checked out the gangnam style statue and took some pics there.

Then we explored the actual COEX mall for a bit. We got some paper clips - to switch out our SIM cards at the airport tomorrow, and then we got lunch. Had a struggle cause we went to a western inspired place but naturally they put cheese into everything and my brother is lactose intolerant. After that we went to find a bookstore cause I wanted to buy books in korean to practice. I didn’t want something too too hard but also not something too easy. I got Winnie the Pooh as a started and then bought Le Petit Prince. Honestly Koreans love that book they had it in at least 5 different versions. They even had a mini pocket sized one. Which oddly enough was the first one we found. Then we wandered back to SUM cafe, I wanted an exo cap cupcake but they were all sold out as they typically are. Instead I got an “exo shake” which was really good. I’m not sure who decided exo’s stuff who basically be chocolate and Oreos but they made a good call. The exo shake was a chocolate Milk shake like thing with whip cream and then topped with chocolate crumbs.

We turned to our Airbnb for a bit to rest up, and get some post cards to send off. Then we went to see SM ENT main office. There were actually girls chilling around. I always wondered what these girls did but there’s like a cute park outside on the other side of the they chill at. While we were there some random chick left the building so I got a tiny glimpse inside. It was surreal to be seeing it in the flesh I’ve seen the place so many times online. The. We went to the post office, and then to the SM identity exhibition. It’s basically a place that has an SM timeline, it’s free entrance. If you download the app and collect all the pictures in the game you get a free drink at SUM. You can also pick a random box on a wall and get a “business card” but it’s a guessing game you don’t know who you will pick.

After this we were pretty tired and we went to scope out areas to eat supper. While doing so we saw JYP which is literally right across from a Dunkin Donuts and there were tons of girls sitting at it. That dunkin donuts must make lots of money. We returned to the Airbnb again for a little rest and then we decided to go to Nongoljib which is a korean barbecue restaurant. It’s the same chain of the one Exo apparently like it’s just closer to where we were. The food was amazing however since we didn’t speak much korean they automatically assumed we don’t know how to cook our own meat on korean barbecue even though this was not our first rodeo. Also barely any of the staff spoke even limited English. And the lady who decided that she had to cook our food spoke in a very low voice so I couldn’t even hear her much less understand her. At the end they gave us some sort of soup which I was kind of scared of so I took out my allergy card and handed it to the other lady who looked like she ran things there. She thought I was trying to pay but I eventually got her to read the card. She said it was fine. When we did pay the bill they didn’t even give it to us first. Just took our card and went to pay. It was more expensive than other barbecues we’d been to but probably because it was in gangnam and it was beef that we ordered.

On our way back to the Airbnb we walked by JYP and there were security guards outside and a bunch of cars. We got some dunkin donuts and waited around a bit but we were too tired so we just went back home.

We packed up and got easy to leave as tomorrow we depart for Canada.

[ultimate-noona]

Yesterday was really a weird day, especially to go to Sm coex artium. I feel really emo when I saw all the picture of Jjong on the walls. When we go out of the building, people began post papers on SHINee's advertising in the front on the building to commemorate his death. It was really weird.

[jaehyun-updates]

170706 NCT Jaehyun at SM COEX Artium‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ © chocolate do not edit, crop, or remove the watermark

[dreamingintherain39]

150718 Taeyeon @ SM Coex artium

[fy-sehunoh]

170811 Sehun at SM COEX Artium - 'The War' Fansign --- cr: on the pics

[ohsehun-exo]

191212 EXO Sehun at SM COEX Artium © innocence do not edit, crop, or remove the watermark

[nct-leetaeyong]

200606 NCT Lee Taeyong at SM Coex Artium‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ © illusion hour do not edit, crop, or remove the watermark

[ultrakdramamama]

I WANT ONE TOO 😭

they sold out in like twenty minutes 😒 When is SM going to open a COEX online store so international fans can get these things too??? 😥

cr: @keyoemi