Lotte World Star AVenue

If you happen to be in Lotte World in Jamsil, please don't forget to visit Lotte World Star Avenue. This is the place of all the Hallyu Stars (ambassadors of Lotte) are gathered. I think they also have one in Lotte Myeongdong. 

How to get there? Take a subway line 2 (green) to Jamsil Station and exit at exit 3 or 4. You will walk straight into underground of Lotte Department Store. Inside this Lotte Department Store, you can enter indoor Lotte World, Lotte Duty Free (level 10) and also Star Avenue.

After playing enough in Lotte World, we decided to stop by Star Avenue to meet our favourite Hallyu Stars. The admission fee for Star Avenue is 10,000 Won but if you purchase the full ticket for Lotte World (40,000 Won), the entrance fee is FREE!!

Upon entering Star Avenue, you will get to see all the Hallyu Stars' possessions displayed. You will first see Rain's stuff and upon that you can see his handprint framed on the wall. Then there's Big Bang's possessions displayed inside the glass as well as their handprints. There's also Jang Keun Suk, JYJ, Choi Ji Woo (the pioneer of Hallyu Wave), and of course 2PM, Song Seung Heon (Autumn in My Heart, 2nd pioneer of Hallyu Wave), Hyun Bin (our favourite Secret man), and last but not least Kim Hyun Joong (our favourite Flower Boy). All of them here are the official ambassador of Lotte company. And at the entrance as well, there's tons of fans love notes on the wall.

The staff there were soooo friendly and they're willing to help you all the way and all the time. They even have a little note with them since they aren't that fluent in English. So cute!! After entering, they will show you briefly what you can do while you're inside there, what you can do and cannot do, how to do things inside there. Very brief but clear explanation. Then, before you start your tour, they will ask your passport to check your nationality and upon that you will receive free gift (face mask) and you will be given a fan love note to write to your favourite Hallyu Star. After you have written your love note to your favourite star (mine was 2PM,my friend's was Big Bang), they will let you hang the note on the wall with other thousands of love notes from other fans.

Now you can start your tour inside. You'll get the chance to take pictures with your favourite star. You can even ride on the back of Song Seung Heon's motorbike. It felt seriously real once you're on the bike. The staff there will help you take picture for you. Again I stress out, they're super friendly and helpful. Then there's group of Hallyu Stars at this corner. 2PM, Big Bang, Jang Keun Suk, JYJ, Choi Ji Woo and others were standing there to get ready to take picture with you. You can playfully imagine that you are really taking picture with the real stars =P 

After finishing taking picture with the stars, you can play around with the games...errr not games actually, but more to interactive features they set up for you. First, there's sending e-letter to your favourite star. It's like typing an email but this one you write with a stylus with your own handwriting. Then they will send an email back to you (your email) saying thank you for sending the e-letter. Then you can try out the fortune-teller-relationship with your favourite star. I tried out with Taecyeon and my friend tried out with TOP. Turns out Taec and me are compatible! Hehehehe..In my dreams~ Then there's another one more games where you can test your knowledge on how much you know about your favourite star. With only one try, I manage to be a true fan of 2PM!!! Weehooo!!! Asssaaa!!~ The Hardcopy results you can ask them to print it out for FREE and you can collect them at the Lotte Duty Free Department at Level 10. Who doesn't like FREE things right??? Hehehe.. As soon as we here FREE we definitely will want right?? Hehehe =P

Then the last thing to do is taking picture wearing Hanbok and pose in your choice of background (this is optional). This cost 8,000 Won if you want a picture of you in Hanbok. The background choice are Jewel in The Palace and another one more I don't seem to remember but it's more modern-look-like. I chose Jewel in The Palace background. And we can choose which kind of hanbok we want to wear (got several designs). Then the staff will help us wear the hanbok. Wearing hanbok may look easy but tie-ing the hanbok may look a bit difficult. But the way I see the staff tie looks easy. Hehehe.. You will get several shots but you only can choose one to be printed out.

We also got gift certificate from Star Avenue and the gift you will need to collect at the Lotte Duty Free Department at Level 10 together with your printed out relationship certificate and true fan certificate. And the gift was.......2PM clear file!!!! Yaaayyyy!!!

Overall we were happy and had so much fun at Lotte World Star Avenue even only for a short time. Thank you to all the super helpful and super friendly staff for all the warm hospitality. We will definitely come back again =)

Okay, till next post~

Anyeong yeoreobun ~