Starfield Library

This guide to Starfield Library in Seoul traces its start in 2017, when Shinsegae gutted a struggling central plaza inside Coex Mall in Gangnam and built a public library nobody expected, its shelves rising thirteen meters over the atrium. It follows how the shelves went viral before anyone had time to browse them, pulling shoppers back into a mall that had been losing them, and how a hit Korean drama later used the room as a set. Look up at the wall of spines as you walk in.