Former Mayor of Seoul, Lee Myung-bak promised a greener Seoul while he was mayor and delivered by constructing the Cheongyecheon stream in the middle of Seoul.  However, this public art work project recently completed in Seoul has got to be the worst idea of all his time as mayor: 

For South Park Fans out there, this thing looks like Mr. Hanky the Chrismas Poo with some food coloring:

 

Yes shit happens and this thing is definitely crap. This thing is so bad that the artist who made it would not even take credit for it:

With the erection of a 20-meter-high bright blue and red snail-like object called “Spring’’ over the stream,
Oldenburg appeared yesterday at the Chonggyechon to look over the work and to say it wasn’t really his idea. In an interview as he sat in a car by the side of the stream, Oldenburg gave credit instead to his wife and long-time artistic collaborator, Coosje van Bruggen of the
Netherlands.`‘We work on large-scale projects together and get a double billing, but it was Bruggen’s idea to use the shell form and Korean color scheme,’’ Oldenburg said. “She mixed the colors herself.’’

 So any other words, this ugly monstrosity is all her fault.  It is also so bad that the artist would not even come to
Seoul to see his creation:

Oldenburg and his wife visited Seoul only once in 1996 and said they had seen the Chonggyechon restoration only through television news and a videotape sent by the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, an umbrella organization of the Seoul government.

He was more than happy to take the money though:

Oldenburg and van Bruggen were chosen for the $4 million sculpture last year by the former Seoul Mayor Lee Myung-bak with advice from the state-run Seoul Museum of Art. The artists were paid $600,000, and $3.4 million was spent on production, with the entire cost paid for by telecommunication conglomerate KT.

More on this at the Marmot’s Hole

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