In the cosmopolitan city of Bangkok, Chinatown on the Chao Phraya River is the home of Chinese people and business centers, while the Dongluo district on Sukhumvit Road is where Japanese culture and customs are gathered. As for Bangkok, where can you experience Korean culture Most of the products are only in Korean Town (코리아타운) near the Asoke MRT station, but it is actually a small shopping mall community where Korean restaurants gather. The design and planning of the Hallyu culture as the main body can be said to announce the presence of Hallyu cultural forces in Bangkok!
Location and transportation of Show DC Shopping Center
Show DC is located at the intersection of Bangkok Airport Express and MRT Blue Line. There are three MRT stations Rama IX, Phetchaburi, and Makkasan nearby. It is even close to Wat Mai Chong Lom Pier of the Khlong Sang Canal Express Boat, which seems to have comparable traffic. Convenient, but in fact, the walking distance is more than 1.5 kilometers. Although the distance is not too far, if you come in hot weather, it is recommended to call a short-distance taxi through Uber or GrabTaxi. The transportation cost is not too high.
Show DC is adjacent to the well-known RCA bar street, and there is also the famous Korean Nanta show nearby. The Oasis Outdoor Arena and Creative Market is planned next to it. There is a large open-air performance space designed to provide large-scale performances. The site, there are still many large areas of developable land around it, and there will be opportunities to build it into a super-large business district in the future.
▲ Show DC is located next to the toll highway interchange, and there are transportation routes such as Airport Express, MRT Blue Line, Canal Express, etc. nearby.
▲ The official schematic diagram of Show DC Shopping Mall and Oasis Creative Market. The most obvious ones are the large outdoor performance space and the popular container market design.
Floor introduction of Show DC shopping mall
Show DC is a real estate development project of a Thai-Malaysian joint venture AEC investment company. However, the mall's connotative design features focus on the introduction of Hallyu culture. Floors 1 to 3 are mainly Korean shopping malls, Lotte Duty Free Shops and Hallyu star restaurants. , On the top floor of the 6th floor, there is also YG Republique amusement park and gourmet food under YG Entertainment.In addition, the 4th floor is a venue for Thai merchandise exhibitions and performances, and the 5th floor is a gastronomic center that gathers Asian countries. It can be said that the overall mall design is centered on South Korea, and the rest are currently ornamental.
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On the first floor.Tourist Service Center
The Bangkok Tourist Service and Transportation Center is located on the first floor of the Show DC Mall building, and there are various shuttle bus stations next to it. There are indoor parking lots on the second and third floors above, as well as Taitai Mall on the fourth floor, Himmapan Avatar on the fifth floor, and the sixth floor. Ong Bak's two live performance venues are designed to easily accommodate the crowds of shopping, watching performances, and transiting tourists.
The visitor center is to create Show DC to become the focus of one-stop tourism services, combined with the vertically integrated design of tourism services such as tourist lounges, bus terminals, and travel itinerary booths. Tourists can not only buy souvenirs here, but also purchase travel itineraries here. And take a ride to Bangkok hotels, MRT stations, and Hua Hin, Pattaya and other attractions, making Show DC the starting point and ending point for foreign tourists to Bangkok. The ambition is quite big!
▲ The ticket counter of the shuttle bus station, where you can easily travel to various attractions.
▲ Timetable for connecting to Suvarnabhumi International Airport.
▲ Timetable of the bus connecting to Don Mueang Airport.
▲ It is convenient to go to key tourist cities such as Pattaya and Hua Hin directly by boarding here.
▲Beside the counter of the tourist service center, many local tourism operators are invited to enter. Tourists can directly purchase various one-day and half-day travel itineraries here.
▲ A large tourist recreation center with high ceiling design.
▲ Outside the tourist service center is the shuttle bus area.
One to three floors.Korean Wave Culture and Shopping
In addition to the tourist service center on the first floor, the entire floor is designed as a Korean Walking Street, which is like relocating famous shopping districts such as Seoul’s Myeongdong and Dongdaemun to Bangkok’s indoor mall. Products such as beauty, lifestyle and fashion, as well as restaurants and cafes opened by Korean artists, such as BY GRACE (Yun Eun Hye), BUGSY DOG (Cui Si Won), AFTER THE RAIN, PSY-MIEN, etc.
Except for the large two-story Lotte Duty Free Shop on the second and third floors, the rest is to plan various Korean popular fashion goods stalls. However, at the beginning of the opening and operation of the Thai shopping mall, the stalls were always in place at once, so in the first half of 2017 I'm afraid there is still a period of booth empty windows.
▲ A restaurant area featuring Hallyu stars.
▲ Hallyu fans, I believe they will be able to treasure these celebrities.
The fourth floor.Thai Thai Shopping Mall
The fourth floor of Show DC focuses on local Thai products. Behind the mall is the large Thai-Thai Market, which displays food, snacks, fruits and other products from all over Thailand. Next to it is the Himmapan Avatar Theater. At the entrance, you can board the performance theater on the fifth floor.
The store in front is a variety of well-known Thai commodity brands, but whether it is food or goods, it may not be the authentic Thai goods mainly purchased by locals. In fact, it is mainly aimed at the tastes of tourists. For tourists, it is very easy. You can buy a lot of souvenirs and dried fruits here.
▲ Thai Thai Mall that sells all kinds of Thai goods.
▲The dried fruit series products that the elderly tourists love most.
The fifth floor.Asian Food Court
The fifth floor of Show DC is the food court Food Tradition, a common food court in department stores. It gathers traditional street food from various Asian countries. It is used in the same way as the food court in Bangkok department stores. You have to buy a stored-value card with a custom amount in cash before going to each After buying food at the stall, return to the counter to change the card and get the cash balance back.
Sixth floor.Live performance venue
The sixth floor of Show DC is a top-floor space that combines indoor performance space and outdoor bar. It mainly includes YG Republique opened by YG Entertainment in Korea. Its name follows the YG Republique series restaurant opened by YG in Myeongdong, Seoul, plus an indoor space that can be a Hallyu star. Performance venues and open-air spaces combined with the characteristics of Bangkok rooftop bars.
In addition, behind the sixth floor is the Muay Thai show performance space (Ong Bak) next to Himmapan Avatar, a live performance event transplanted from the well-known Thai movie "Boxing Fighter".
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Conclusion
Show DC is located near the performance venue of the Korean Nanta show and focuses on Korean pop culture. It faces the famous Japanese-style community Dongna District across the Kongshengsang Canal, just as Japan and South Korea face each other across the strait in East Asia. It is really a very interesting location. Those who love the Japanese style of Dongluo District, if they have the opportunity, they may wish to cross the Kongshengsang Canal and come to this emerging Korean wave cultural gathering place to experience the difference in Bangkok Exotic!
◎ Show DC
– Address: 99/6-9 Rim Klong Bangkapi Road, Bangkapi, Huaykwang, Bangkok
– Tel: +66 2 203 1888
– Official website: https://www.showdc.co.th/
– Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/showdc.co.th/
