Friday morning came as a sunlight woke me up around 7:00am instead of an alarm clock. I was planning to get to the Samsung showroom and shop in Gangnam and explore the area. I avoided the full rush hour but still saw lots of workers going to work, Some high schoolers traveling with luggage to head home for Chuseok. I passed by Media City, University of Seoul, as well as National Centre for Education.
I exited at Gangnam station right after 10:00am and headed straight to the basement level of the showroom form the metro station. consumer electronics appliances (no fridge or washing machine). The ground floor was the showroom, with all sorts of devices being showcased: digital cameras, flat touch surfaces to dance on, tablets, phones. I was new to the Android environment so I was a bit awkward playing around by myself trying to avoid the staff in an empty building right after opening hour. The upper floor was an activity room which I enjoyed very much. There was an interesting history of semi conductor research in the first hall, with lots of information to read. Then there was a small living room with different appliances showcased that could be tried out as everything interacted together: a table with a flat surface interface, the TV, oven, the fridge and the washing machine and lighting of the area.
There was also an activity area to play with a tablet, wheere one had to scan the barcodes to start the activities. The theme was software and it was trying to illustrate the importance of software by providing various example of what a software would do in different settings: power management, Elevator (reminded me of my University coding project), traffic lights, etc...
By the time I finished playing around like a dork, a big group of Chinese tourists entered the shop looking for the bathrooms. I went across the shop into a French themed cafe and calmly had a hot chocolate and cream cheese biscuit, while eavesdropping on all conversations around me. I could walk around Gangnam but I had no interest in luxurious boutiques after all. I would have needed to explore with more time on my hands but I had more interesting quirky destinations to explore in Seoul so I took the metro again for Garosugil.
I exited at Gangnam station right after 10:00am and headed straight to the basement level of the showroom form the metro station. consumer electronics appliances (no fridge or washing machine). The ground floor was the showroom, with all sorts of devices being showcased: digital cameras, flat touch surfaces to dance on, tablets, phones. I was new to the Android environment so I was a bit awkward playing around by myself trying to avoid the staff in an empty building right after opening hour. The upper floor was an activity room which I enjoyed very much. There was an interesting history of semi conductor research in the first hall, with lots of information to read. Then there was a small living room with different appliances showcased that could be tried out as everything interacted together: a table with a flat surface interface, the TV, oven, the fridge and the washing machine and lighting of the area.
There was also an activity area to play with a tablet, wheere one had to scan the barcodes to start the activities. The theme was software and it was trying to illustrate the importance of software by providing various example of what a software would do in different settings: power management, Elevator (reminded me of my University coding project), traffic lights, etc...
By the time I finished playing around like a dork, a big group of Chinese tourists entered the shop looking for the bathrooms. I went across the shop into a French themed cafe and calmly had a hot chocolate and cream cheese biscuit, while eavesdropping on all conversations around me. I could walk around Gangnam but I had no interest in luxurious boutiques after all. I would have needed to explore with more time on my hands but I had more interesting quirky destinations to explore in Seoul so I took the metro again for Garosugil.
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