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Field Report: A Nighttime Stroll Along Seoullo 7017, Seoul, South Korea (18 February 2018)

I’m stuck at home with the flu as I type this post, but I’ve found a way to cope with the fever: replaying memories of one bitterly, bitterly cold February night in Seoul, when I went for a nighttime walk across the Korean capital’s slick new linear park.

Field Report: Walking from Seoullo 7017 to Namsan, Seoul, South Korea (03 June 2017)

Seoul’s drive to rebuild and reinvent itself has yielded some quite spectacular results – and also reveals something interesting about the city’s relationship with the material legacy of its own explosive, almost uncontrolled growth. On the one hand, there’s a willingness to destroy, to sweep away and wipe clean, as was amply demonstrated when theContinue reading “Field Report: Walking from Seoullo 7017 to Namsan, Seoul, South Korea (03 June 2017)”