The Shinsegae Centum City Department Store in Busan has been named by Guinness World Records as the world’s largest department store.
Looks like Macy’s is going to have to take down that sign.
According to Guinness World Records, Shinsegae has 95,405 more square meters of floor space than Macy’s flagshop store in Manhattan.
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The article linked above can’t even get the facts straight, also calling it a shopping mall. The largest shopping mall in the world is in China. It’s twice as large.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_China_Mall
My heart goes out to the unfortunate waeg who had to edit their online English brochure:
“Shinsegae Centumcity: The only world that did not exist in the world.”
I’m guessing he/she got W50,000 and 20 minutes to finish.
Linkd,
What makes you so sure that they actually paid someone who understands English to proof read that?
I have in the recent past had some pecuniary interest in studying the habits of the PR-minded Korean with respect to its purchase of written English. I know the work process, and I know that the final decision never rests with the person most qualified to make it.
According to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_China_Mall
[quote]Since its opening in 2005, it has suffered from a severe lack of occupants. Much of the retail space remained empty in 2008, with 99.2 percent of the stores vacant.[2] Many analysts[who?] said that the main reason the mall had been largely unoccupied was its location in the suburbs of Dongguan, which means that it was only practical to travel there using a car. The only occupied areas are near the entrance where several Western fast food chains are located and a parking structure repurposed as a kart racing track.[/quote]
Epic failed department store
Perhaps the poor waeg turned in a fine job, which was promptly butchered by a typesetter/designer. This happened to me when I edited subtitles for a documentary. Worst part? I had insisted on having my name in the closing credits.
is this really a dept. store or a mall with many independent chains of stores (not that i necessarily know the rules of classification for dept. stoes et al)? regardless, how funny is it that countries (read: regions in countries, read: mayors or govt. officials in regions in countries) boast of this sort of thing? i havent been there and didnt bother looking at the web site, but i bet there are 500 stores which include 400 cosmetic stores the size of shoe boxes coupled with 150 shoe stores of equal size.
Hmm, Korea Record Institute not actually directly assessed by Guinness Book of Records?
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