A cool design, exhibition, museum and gallery complex in a downtown shopping area of Seoul. There are plenty of seats in the gardens, an area of grassed rooftop, lots of restaurants below ground and on higher floors, shops and boutiques; the place is huge and worth exploring.

The main attraction for me was the architecture; the alien spaceship exterior and the Kubrickesque corridors straight out of 2001 were my favourite parts.

Deep insode, there’s a museum of design (I’ve never seen so many metal pencil sharpeners! There was a Disney exhibit going on for families, but no other art exhibitions…I think they are between shows.

More information at the DDP website.

DDP:

It’s right next to Dongdaemun History & Culture Park Station (동대문역사문화공원) on Lines 2, 4 and 5.