[SEOULACIOUS] How Instagram is reshaping Korea's urban spaces

Standing in the lobby of a Korean cinema in Vietnam in August 2018, I had a startling revelation. Fashionable, young Vietnamese packed the CGV in Danang, but almost none of them were there to watch movies. Instead, they were staging elaborate fashion shoots, lounging in carefully designed seating areas and treating the entire lobby like their personal photo studio. Here was a Korean movie theater chain being used in ways even Koreans hadn't imagined - transformed into a pure space of social performance and play. It was a powerful reminder that Korea's innovative approach to spatial design had not only gone global but was evolving in fascinating new ways.Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times