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The building itself is the screen For eleven nights the curved skin of Dongdaemun Design Plaza stops being architecture and becomes a screen. Seoullight DDP returns for its autumn edition under the theme Daybreaker — the thing that breaks the dark and opens a new light — running 19:30 to 22:30, free, no ticket and no reservation. You walk up, you look up. Three media facade works rotate across the facade this season, built around K-Original Light: pieces drawing on Nam June Paik, the painter Yoo Youngkuk, and Cheongguyeongeon, the 18th-century anthology of Korean poetry-songs. A laser signature show runs alongside them. Why this week matters It closes on Sunday 13 September. The final three nights each carry a live set on top of the projection: SOULSCAPE on the 11th, HYPNOSIS THERAPY on the 12th, and SOULSCAPE again on the 13th to end the run. There is a second thread worth pulling. Yoo Youngkuk, one of the three facade subjects, also has a full retrospective running at Seoul Museum of Art until late October — A Mountain Within Me. See his mountains at thirty metres tall on a building at night, then go stand in front of the actual canvases in daylight. Same painter, two completely different scales. Getting there Dongdaemun History & Culture Park Station (Lines 2, 4, 5), exit 1 — the plaza is directly above you. DDP is also a five-minute walk from Dongdaemun Station (Lines 1, 4). The projection surface faces the plaza side, so follow the crowd rather than the building entrance; you do not go inside for this. Arrive by 19:30 for the opening sequence, or after 20:00 if you would rather catch a live set with the crowd already settled.