How Seoul Turned Abandoned Factories Into Its Coolest Neighborhood(Seongsu-dong)

Seongsu-dong
  1. If you wander into the eastern edge of Seoul today, you will step inside a surreal architectural time warp where grease-stained machine shops rub shoulders with multi-million dollar luxury pop-up stores.
  2. This is Seongsu-dong, a gritty industrial district that spent
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The King Who Built a Fortress for His Dead Father

Hwaseong Fortress
  1. Imagine inheriting a crown while the blood-soaked ghost of your tortured father haunts every single hallway of your royal palace.
  2. In 1762, Crown Prince Sado—the heir to the Joseon throne—was condemned to a death so grotesque and merciless that it
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The River Seoul Buried Under a Highway – cheonggyecheon

cheonggyecheon
  1. If you walk through the ultra-modern neon-lit canyons of downtown Seoul today, you are actually strolling right above a ghost.(cheonggyecheon)
  2. Buried deep beneath the smooth asphalt and roaring traffic of a concrete highway lies a centuries-old river that literally bled,
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The Railway Station That Connected Two Koreas — Before the Country Was Divided

  1. If buildings had memories, this red-brick structure would hold every single scream and cheer of modern Korean history.
  2. It was once the beating heart of a massive railway network that pierced through the Korean peninsula and stretched across the Eurasian
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The Mud, the Megastructure, and the Magic: How Lotte Conquered Jamsil’s Haunted Waters.(Lotte World) 

LotteWorld
  1. I find myself far more drawn to the hidden architectural ambitions and transformed geography beneath a destination than to any generic entry in a standard travel guidebook.
  2. Having run an inbound travel business guiding countless foreign visitors through Jamsil, I
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