1. On a somewhat rainy day, I went out to follow up a lead on an abandoned convention center, which turned out to be too much of a hassle and possessing too much security.
2. But down the street, I found an abandoned hotel down the street that also had similar facilities, and the doors were wide open.
3. I found an unlocked door and did a hasty run-through, but wasn't ready to look around thoroughly yet, especially alone. Considering the maze-like basement nightclub, I'm glad I didn't look too deeply.
4. So I rooftopped a supermarket across the street to get this picture. These two buildings appear to be of the same entity, but the older building on the right is totally closed now. Those two windows with the yellow lights on are just reflections of a giant sign on my side of the street.
5. I went back the next weekend with friends. Around back one entrance advertises a "colatheque," which is a type of nightclub that has a reputation these days for catering to an older crowd (and presumably not offering alcoholic drinks.
6. The front door was sitting open, which it hadn't been last time, and I could see two Koreans inside. I had to get closer and confront them in order to see if they were two friends I was supposed to meet. I'd already attempted the same outside and it wasn't them. But this time, when I entered the lobby I confirmed it was my friends and gave them a scare by accident.
7. We went down to the basement, which I was certain would prove to be the most interesting part of this place.
8. There were long, odd-shaped corridors, and little did I know but the doors ahead deposited me in a maze, and I didn't look back and see where I'd come through. If I was alone down there, I might have gotten lost.
9. There were private nightclub rooms.
10. This passage leads up to the streetside, I think for newlywed couples to arrive or exit in ceremony. The door was locked, but through the window I could see a couple more friends arrive.
11. With everyone arrived and the way out of the maze known, I ventured out onto the dancefloor.
12. It's indescribably rewarding to find your way into a cavernous abandoned place, isn't there?
13. Here's one of the private rooms.
14. Oh yeah, of course she was here.
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15.5. The club was named "Don't Tell Mama," spelled in Korean phonetically in English here. Some time before, it seems to have been called Tunnel Night.
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17. And her husband was forced to watch while I dragged her around to all these places.
18. We tried going upstairs, but around the fifth floor, I went around a corner and saw an automatic door down the hall closing. Presuming someone had just gone through, we bugged out.
19. Afterwards, the five of us went to a restaurant together, but social distancing rules say no groups of more than four. So we had to separate into two groups and act like we didn't know each other. Here's me, with two more friends in the background, one raising a glass at us.