Haebangchon’s Forgotten Past: A Stairway, A Shrine and The War Dead
There’s a nondescript stairway on the outskirts of ‘the hip Haebangchon.’ The steps once led to a Shinto shrine for …
Finding Remnants of Colonial Architecture
Surviving colonial architecture in South Korea invites visitors, only if they knew where to look. …
Hope for Korea’s Surviving Colonial Architecture
Early modern architecture under Japanese rule replaced Korea's well-ordered city centers. But does it really warrant destroying all colonial-era buildings? …
Bukchon: Seoul’s Destruction of Heritage
After centuries at the heart of Korean cultural and social life, Bukchon and its Gahoe-dong neighborhood – famed for …
Hanok: Reconfiguring Traditional Architecture in Seoul
An architecture firm takes a dilapidated traditional-style house in Seoul from the 1930s and transforms it into an office space, …