dear sangsang madang art square,
i miss you.
i miss all the amazing stationary you sold, all made in korea, and sold at a fraction of the price of stationary sold in canada and a million times more innovative. i miss your museum/gallery style shop products (though less overpriced). novelty yet cleverly designed trinkets and gadgets you taunted me to purchase, like the light-up silicon astronaut tea strainer and the candy coloured lucite currency rings- i'm still thinking about you. i miss secretly snapping photos of the front window art installations like the wonderfully organic weaved lights of hyungshin hwang that looked like they were giant black tulips frozen in motion, which i got to see on my birthday right before i left.
i miss the swarms of enthusiastic students and curious tourists alike, all fighting to touch and prod all the creative products lined up and labelled neatly on the shelves. i miss buying back issues of dazed+confused korea that you miraculously stocked. i miss drinking your mediocre coffee at your utterly cramped coffee bar on the side. i miss your upstairs galleries, filled with unique art and installations from hongik university alum and upcoming korean artists and designers. i miss your dedication to promoting the projects and ideas of fresh korean talent and providing such a large space and forum for their expression and exhibition.
i even miss your cold hard face, your tall glass facade covered in that weird concrete mesh membrane, always visible, even at night. but most of all, i miss taking you for granted. knowing that whenever i needed a spark of inspiration i could drop by and be inspired, motivated to create on my own like all the young korean designers featured. i cherish our time together and the happiness you brought me just by being in your presence. i cherish all the gifts i took away like my leather bound sketchbook, my seoul+tokyo maps and stacks of pristine notebooks. i just wanted you to know that.
located in hongdae, take line 6 to hongik university, exit 5 and walk towards the 'luxury' norabang. website only in korean T.T
**excuse the last pixelated photo. it's not mine so it's stretched @.@
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