As soon as I discovered the Trap Korea escape room here in Daegu, I begged gently nudged Sly to go with me. It only took about two months of non-stop badgering convincing, but it eventually worked. Plus, it was either go or endure an entire summer of my annoying pestering.
Escape rooms have become really popular lately in Korea, and as someone who loves puzzles, mysteries, and bizarre interior design, I really wanted to see what all the hype was about. A couple years ago I watched a dumb reality show where the reality stars tried to escape from an escape room. First off, the room looked like a walled in cubicle from my very first corporate job and second, the ‘clues’ involved solving easy equations on scraps of paper. It looked like some weird homemade mystery theater type thing my sister and I would have concocted when we were teens. But even that didn’t deter me from wanting to go, if anything, it made me more curious.
Maybe those reality people just went to a really crummy escape room or maybe escape rooms have evolved in the past couple of years because TrapKorea’s website made their rooms look like Hollywood stage sets. To shut me up, Sly finally booked a spot online for the Egyptian room, the easiest of the escape rooms.