Lotte Mart

Today, I went to the hospital to have my physical, my boss finds out my results Friday, and then we apply for my registration card. The only really neat thing about the hospital is it didn't have a parking lot; instead you left your car with the valet who parked in a vertical parking garage. I wish I took a picture of it but it once the car went in an elevator (for just the car) raised it up them moved it over to store it while we were in the hospital.

While walking to my bus stop, I realized that right near it was Lotte Mart, so I decided to visit it. Lotte Mart is a very interesting store. It's like a Super Wal-Mart on steroids, or like an entire mall packed into one store, or a Sears and a Kroger smashed together... Well you get the picture. When I first entered Lotte Mart, I wasn't sure what to expect I was told to go there to buy things for cheap.

I walked in with both the intent to explore and to do some shopping, not much shopping though because I hadn't planned before hand and only had a few Won on hand. Before walking in I was kind of taken back at the size of it. With five floors, and each floor taking up the size of a Ralphs or Kroger it's weird to see a store that is built up rather than out. When I walked in I noticed what looked like escalators with a very low slope. Upon further inspection I realized they were more like slanted moving walkways, designed with people using carts in mind, and many people with shopping carts were using them.

Going up and down floors, I saw they had practically every product you would ever need, and defiantly every practical product you would ever need. On the fifth floor there was dry cleaning, parking, a mechanics garage, dentist office, and kids play area, the fourth floor was home decorations, Nail Salon, food court, furniture, and sporting goods, the third floor was clothes, which included anything type of clothing you'd find at a JC Penny, the second floor was like a toys r us, and the first floor was groceries.

After I explored a bit (for about 30 minutes or so) I decided to do some shopping, the prices were very reasonable. I was able to buy two bottles of juice, lunch for three days, and dinner for about 14 dollars. For dinner I bought a two pack of tuna oniguri and beef? Oniguri... The tuna was better. On my way out I decided to buy a Popsicle, I opted for the cantaloupe flavor, which turned out to be more like ice cream on a stick but turned out to be delicious. It tasted like a very ripe cantaloupe and was just soft enough to be perfect. I might be addicted and it was easily the best 500 won I have spent the whole time I’ve been out here.

Lotte Mart

Strange Slanted Walkways

Dry Cleaners

Car Garage

Dentist Area

Kid's Area

Food Court...

Nail salon