Matthew Lamers and Hannah Chang have run another piece on the redevelopment issue in the Korea Herald, this one focusing on the Inn Daewon, a popular tourist inn that will be gone pretty soon.
Give it a read.
On a (somewhat) related note, I walked around the Seochon (“West Village”) neighborhood to the west of Gyeongbokgung Palace a couple of weeks ago. I never got a chance to do a proper photo essay, but you can see the photos below. Part of the neighborhood — Chebu-dong and some surrounding areas, to be precise — was slated for redevelopment. Seoul City recently announced a plan to preserve some 663 of the old hanok in Seochon, although the Chebu-dong area could still get redeveloped.
Like I said, this probably deserves a proper photo essay, but at least there are explanations on the Flickr links:
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Nice shots of a cool neighborhood, as usual.
Oh man, i can’t believe that the Inn Daewon is still even there — i haven’t looked in in awhile — saddened that it’ll close. It was THE classic place for backpack-wanderers, featured as the best flophoue to stay in Seoul in the first Lonely Planet writings on Korea. I stayed there for, hmmm, 2 months i think in Summer 1982, it was w1500 for a shared room and w3000 for a private — seemed expensive, double the rates of Taipei or Manila hostels. Yeah, i remember Mr Kim and Mrs Kang, nice folks… remember on my 5th day how Kang gave me the scribbled message that “she” had called. I played with my first Korean GF in a room of the Inn Daewon, so it’ll always be in my heart… Lawd, she must be 50 now! — i wonder what her life turned out as. Well, well.
Robert, your work is really coming along beautifully.
I like the photo of Hong Nan-pa’s house (#11) since I like his music (봉선화 “For-get-me-not”, 고향의 봄 “Spring in My Hometown”, etcetera). It is a pity that some have taken to slandering his legacy by falsely accusing him of being a collaborator with the Japanese.
Here is a link to a romance he wrote:www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uzyiZMjMHU
Rust never looked so good…
I know I’ve asked you this before, but I can’t find the email I had with the info: what plugin do you use to create those galleries?
Thank you for the pictures.
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