The Seoul Starfield Library is a new check-in attraction. It is set up in the Coex Mall department store. It is very different from the traditional library and bookstore for quiet reading. There are many people coming and going, taking pictures and chatting. If you want to read well Reading, bringing your own noise-cancelling earphones and being calm is absolutely no problem.
Transportation: How to get to the Starfield Library in Seoul
The Starry Sky Library is located in the Coex Mall, a large shopping mall in Seoul. You can take subway line 5 and get off at Samseong Station (#513 코엑스). After exiting the station, go to Exit 5 and 6, and you will see shops, stores and shopping centers along the way. When planning your itinerary, it is recommended that you can enjoy dining and shopping in the shopping center along the way.
Introduction to Seoul Starfield Library (Starfield Library) and travel experience
The overall area of the library is 2,800 square meters (approximately 850 square meters). It is supported by three bookshelves up to 13 meters high, supplemented by large white steel frames and glass curtains to bring in light, but it is quite soft and not dazzling, plus the stars hanging in the sky Moon lighting creates a soft and comfortable space atmosphere, allowing people to immerse themselves in the world of reading and relax.
Various desks, laptop sockets, independent reading tables and chairs, etc. are provided on site. The open space tries to break the traditional setting of a separate library. It is not only a reading function, but also a leisure and social function, so you can meet with friends here. , Meet to discuss or participate in library activities together to add new things to life.
▲ The main layout will be updated from time to time. In December, it will be a shiny Christmas tree.
▲ People waiting for the lecture.
▲ For drinks and light meals, you can order a meal here on the second floor.
▲ Reading seating areas that do not interfere with each other.
The library has a collection of 70,000 books and 600 magazines, ranging from humanities, economics, home, to various practical books, etc., magazine topics are diversified, and there are even e-books that can be viewed on iPad. This is also an important aspect of constructing a starry sky library. The idea is to break the traditional library paper reading vehicle, and the direction of the difference in the field of collection books.
And there are occasional physical events held here, including celebrity lectures, author sharing, poetry performances, concerts, and various static cultural exhibitions, which can indeed help the mall to gather more crowds. Therefore, everyone will find a lot of sharing information like "Crowd "If you want to come here, I suggest you come early or leave later, so you can take pictures with fewer people.
▲ Magazines and other books.
▲ Little Hamburg has already enjoyed it here.
▲ I really want to buy these children's picture books!
Conclusion
The Seoul Starry Sky Library has indeed defined different modes of space usage for the "library". In the past, when visiting the Toyama Museum of Art (and book collection) in Japan, in addition to being the representative works of architects, the museum still emphasizes quietness and no noise. The field is also quite diversified, and coupled with the static art works display, it is a place that pays attention to personal reading atmosphere.
If you compare it with the Tsutaya Bookstore and the Eslite Bookstore, it is like taking out the design and layout features of the former, and matching the latter with physical activities and space utilization, so that people can come and go to stay or meet in pairs.You can stay here for about half an hour to 40 minutes. If you know some Korean, you can add stay time. Find some books and magazines. It's pretty good.
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◎ Seoul Starfield Library ⋅ Starfield Library
– Address: B159~1F, 1 Mall, Samseong-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul
– Tel: 02-6002-3031
– Business hours: 10:30~22:00
– Official website: https://www.starfield.co.kr/coexmall/starfieldLibrary/library.do
– Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/starfield.library/
