Shopping with a show and a view? OMA’s new department store in South Korea defies traditional retail

Shopping malls and department stores are beginning to shed their similarities to casinos, spaces so singularly driven by consumerism they’re often all but closed off to their environs. With Galleria Gwanggyo, the
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