[Cafe/Daegu] Not Blame but Blooming - Mooyoungdang Department

 

Tourism countries such as France, China, Japan

preserve historical architectures in urban cities.
I would say these cities are matured.

 It’s an urbanization with adding something new
not covering the legacy of the past.

Modernization is a synonym
of urbanization in Korea.
This country was not affordable for taking care of
anything else, except for economic growth
because of the debt.

Even though Korea has grown up to be an advanced country
wealthy enough to compete
with other leading countries,
we cannot find out anything from the past,
as all covered with contemporary things.

Civilization is on the stage but culture is gone.

I was told that, in this circumstance,
Daegu purchased a building
whose name is Mooyeongdnag,
a former department store
in Japanese colonial era,
and reopened it as a café,
a complex cultural space.

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Mooyoungdang Department

@mooyoungdang_department

8, Gyeongsanggamyeong-gil, Jung-gu, Daegu, Republic of Korea

11;00a.m. - 10:00 p.m.

Monday Off

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Korean Version

https://blog.naver.com/blurah/223363845680

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1^st floor is a vegan café.

DE86RTURE is named after ‘departure’.
The LED sign attached on pillar look like the one at airport.
Name of each beverage is the city of states.
It describes the things we can see at the airport.

2^nd floor is Pop-Up store.

There were lot of brands that I’ve never seen before.
Workshop Chomukdo, independent bookstore The Pollack,
clothes brand POUM.
All of these are local-based brands of Daegu.

 

It was impressive that only local-based brands were available.

Most complex cultural spaces focus on diversity,
but Mooyoungdang concentrates on regionality too.

 

3^rd floor is a place for exhibition or performance.
It seems to open only when certain events are planned.

 

4th floor is a lounge and roof-top pub.
The staff told us this floor is still in preparing
and will open soon.

Feeling free to looking around and
asking to visit when available.
It was way more approaching than
any other eye-catching promotion
that one sentence he said to us.

 There is a photo-zone with showing its history.
You can find it if going up with the stair next to the pub.

 

"Starbucks Americano"

Mooyoungdang, the first national capital department
in Daegu during Japanese colonial era, means
a house with blooming cherry blossom.
People say culture blooms.

I wish architectures that accumulates history open
more like Mooyoungdang, rather than erasing everything
from the past with something new, as flower cannot bloom
without tree and tree cannot grow up without roots.