From Seoul City Hall Plaza down Sejong Road to Gwanghamun gate is the most import public space in modern Korean history. When the people are angry, they march here. When the government is in a good mood, they march soldiers here. When foreign dignitaries is arrive, they are paraded around here. Someday, when Korean Jesus…
Yeoido’s 5.16 Square
IT is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a country, must be in want of a large concrete square where he can force his citizenry to move in unison. Dictator Park Junghee would receive his very flora free box in 1971. According to this article (which might be total BS), Park…
Yeoido’s Yeoido Airport
Yeoido Island contains some of the most valuable property in the country and yet in the midst of that forest of buildings there is an actual park. Why did a city with just 3.1 sq. meters of green space per person (1/7th of London’s) plant actual trees instead of more buildings? Because it used to…
Seoul City Hall’s Plaza
After Gangnam Style hit 1 billion views on YouTube, Psy gave a free concert at Seoul City Hall Plaza to thank the citizens of the world. Over 50,000 people came and saw grown-ups dance like horses. The show was a magnificent use of one of the most important public spaces in Seoul. If we passed out from…
Hapjeong’s UN Freedom Tower
On June 25th, 1964 (the 14th anniversary of the start of the Korean War), President Park Junghee took time out of his busy schedule of being a dictator with a girl’s name to attend the commemoration ceremony for the newly constructed UN Veteran Guardians of Freedom Memorial Tower. The tower, whose official name doesn’t sound…
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