Lithuania’s Pavilion is one of my favorites at this year’s Expo. The design is cohesive and simple, it’s all about amber. The room is filled with a warm amber glow coming through translucent walls and flooring. Black cylinders stand at various heights with magnifying glasses on top inviting you to peer into small pieces of amber stones with various fossils inside. On the other side of the room, you step onto elevated platforms to lift you up so that you can look into individual cylinder projections. In the gift shop, you can also purchase your very own amber fossil.
Outdoor bench with LED color changing lights and built in speakers. In front of the Community Center at Expo Town.
Belgium Pavilion’s carnival theme. There were life size pop ups, merry go rounds, Tin Tin murals, and lights and whimsy to fill your fancy. And, of course, enough chocolates to send you bouncing off the walls.
Our pavilion at night.
Peru Pavilion’s color changing interiors. The ceiling and walls are wrapped in a stretchable fabric that is backlit, filling the entire room with a glow that changes in color and the mood of the space along with it. The ground floor has a bar with a countertop made out of resin with tiny fish embedded inside.
Australian Pavillion’s cool faceted and double sided projection screen.
"Whenever you feel that creeping cynicism, whenever you hear those voices say you can’t make a difference, whenever somebody tells you to set your sights lower — the trajectory of this country should give you hope. Previous generations should give you hope. What young generations have done before should give you hope. Young folks who marched and mobilized and stood up and sat in, from Seneca Falls to Selma to Stonewall, didn’t just do it for themselves; they did it for other people."
President Obama, 2012 Barnard Commencement Speech (via smallgirlbigappetite)
Chicken or Pork?
Our diet in Yeosu has consisted of either fried chicken or sam gyup sal, grilled pork strips, and A LOT of kimchi. Koreans appear to love both fried chicken and sam gyup sal as much as they love their kimchi. The mini stop at Expo Town, where everyone working at Expo stays, is always stocked full of both. Restaurants all over town with table charcoal grills and flexible exhaust ducts serve up plates of the pork belly strips which you grill and eat with kimchi and ssam jang, a miso chili paste. Delivery joints and street stalls offer their version of the best fried chicken. It’s amazing, I think Koreans love fried chicken even more than Americans do.
Here the team takes a break at a popular sam gyup sal restaurant. 
Sam gyup sal + ssam jang + LOTS OF garlic + rice = mouthful of heaven.
The closest cafe to our pavilion is a Dunkin Donuts which is located just past our neighbor, the US pavilion. Due to its proximity I’ve been frequenting it since it finally opened for my daily caffeine fix. In the afternoons I have to have my milk tea. It brings me back to my college days when we would always go to Dunkin Donuts’ for the milk tea. I’m impressed with their new image - they’ve managed to make the orange and brown cool.
Check out their packaging for take away drinks. Love the color, love the graphics and love how two of them can be joined together to carry 4 drinks.
Naver pop up shop at the Expo site. The shop consists of two large unfolded boxes complete with cardboard interiors where cute cut out displays, both large and small, are peeled and extruded from the cardboard surfaces. Really cute and clever.
