Lotte World Part 2: More Mannequins

Next up was the "Sindbad" ride, Lotte World's version of Pirates of the Caribbean. I'll give LW props for adding dragons and special effects, but it seems the designers couldn't resist throwing in references to the original, including a scrappy dog looking at prisoners and an obese woman dunking a sailor in water.

Pirates homage

I didn't think it was too bad, but the kids behind us were disappointed.

Not wanting Universal Studios to feel left out, Lotte World copied them as well

After Sindbad, we played an interactive game called "Desperados," in which riders on little plastic horses had to shoot moving targets on screen. Julia ended up with the highest score out of the three of us.

We returned to the Lotte World Folk Museum where we had eaten lunch in order to check out the main exhibit- more replicas and mannequins!

Turns out Queen Amidala accidentally went shopping in the Korean men's section. Although Korean men's and women's clothing are virtually interchangeable...

The museum truly was an "interactive" museum- as we passed through replicas depicting different periods of Korean history, we were able to try out different Korean customs, including an arrow throwing game, an early form of drying clothes that resembled drumming, and a traditional Korean game.

modeling the early Korean backpack
a replica of the Buddha statue in Gyeongju, which we didn't see when we went
Jihoon eagerly bowed down to worship Buddha

The "Occupation Period" section
Say hi to the nice lady eating ramen... oh never mind, she's a mannequin
Julia and her cookie made of pure sugar

After the Lotte Folk Museum, we returned to the main Lotte World area just in time to catch the 20th anniversary Mardi Gras parade. To be completely honest, the parade wouldn't have been out of place in Vegas, and was probably the most risque parade I've ever seen at an amusement park. To top it off, I noticed a number of dads were happily videotaping the festivities, focusing on the scantily clad non-Korean female dancers.

After the parade, we were all pretty Lotte World-ed out, so we exited the park and entered the main building housing Lotte World. LW only took up the top floor of the building, and as we made our way through we passed Lotteria, Lotte's McDonalds competitor; LotteMart, Lotte's supermarket chain; and Lotte Department Store. The only thing the complex needed was a stadium to watch the baseball games of the Lotte Giants. We made the rounds grabbing samples at LotteMart and buying absolutely nothing. As we shopped for samples, we came across a group of strangely uniformed men acting out a skit to promote Cass beer.

Then we ate at Lotte Department Store before we noraebang-ed it and called it a day.