on June 5th, 2012 at 1:06 pm

Picture of the Day: Yongsan After the US Military Leaves

in: Seoul

An artist’s rendering shows commercial buildings at the Yongsan International Business District project.

Via the Korea Herald.

Tags: Seoul, Yongsan

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setnaffa
11:21 am on June 5th, 2012 1
All I see is perpetual twilight and broken glass from falling windows at ground level…
Tom
11:35 am on June 5th, 2012 2
That’s funny because all I see are the Twin Towers on fire.
VWBUG
12:08 pm on June 5th, 2012 3
If Yongsan look like that the North Korean will come a running and so will a lot of others to join in. All you got to do is build it and they will come. But you better pay the North Korean off first to build it or they might just blow it up from having a bad hair day. # 13 see it METAPHORICALLY SPEAKING HAVE TO TELL YOU EVERYTHING.
USinKorea
4:33 pm on June 5th, 2012 4
Where are the flying pigs and icerink called Hell?

There is about as much chance of the US military finally moving out of Seoul as Tom actually choosing to live in Korea for the first time in his life…
Leon LaPorte
4:49 pm on June 5th, 2012 5
So my predictions were correct. The park isn’t going to happen? Color me shocked
tbonetylr
4:59 pm on June 5th, 2012 6
Just read the other day the planned 2nd tallest building in or around Seoul was nixed due to no funds or the developer backed out/didn’t pay. I can’t seem to find the link or remember where I read it?
Teadrinker
7:07 pm on June 5th, 2012 7
#5,
My exact reaction.
Pffft
7:42 pm on June 5th, 2012 8
The tallest building in the center reminds me of the brush in the center of the Worker’s Party Statue in Pyeongyang. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/48126367@N07/4543248471/)
Pffft
7:43 pm on June 5th, 2012 9
I stand corrected: It looks much more like the Juche Tower.

http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/architecture/news-7-most-ostentatious-monuments-north-korea
The Man
7:52 pm on June 5th, 2012 10
It is good to see that after the filthy stinking American soldiers leave, they take all their air pollution with them and leave nothing but the naturally stunning crystal blue skies of tree-lined Seoul behind.
vwbug
7:57 pm on June 5th, 2012 11
Wow! he is asian.
Flyingsword
8:02 pm on June 5th, 2012 12
What happend to urban green space? I thought it was going to be a nice quiet spot for urban dwellers relax and reflect on the beauty of nature…….

Like 5 said, color my green by shock…
VWBUG
8:08 pm on June 5th, 2012 13
You should see the mess they left in Vietnam, those chemicals are still around. Babies being born with gigantic heads, eye on the side of their face. Peoples still getting blowned up from cluster bomb that did not explode doing the Vietnam war.
tbonetylr
8:17 pm on June 5th, 2012 14
“The area will boast an 111-story tower, the country’s tallest”
Only because word of the planned 133-story landmark building was nixed two days before…
“Seoul nixes project to build landmark building”
http://view.koreaherald.com/kh/view.php?ud=20120601001126
“The high-profile project to build a 133-story landmark building in the Digital Media Center in Seoul was nixed due to the main constructor’s failure to pay for its purchase of the land plot, Seoul City said Friday.
The metropolitan government began the project in April 2009 when it signed a land purchase deal with the firm Seoul Light Tower.
The city said that the firm delayed paying for the land and failed to carry out its responsibility stipulated in the deal.
Seoul officials said that they made the decision as the firm has no will to push for the project, and the plan to develop the district could face delays.
The firm was picked as the preferred contractor to build the building with a height of 640 meters ― the world’s second highest. The building was to include a shopping mall, hotel and other facilities.”
tbonetylr
8:36 pm on June 5th, 2012 15
Here is a story that correlates,
Major builders face sanctions for collusion…
http://view.koreaherald.com/kh/view.php?ud=20120601000960

Could any of those major builders be involved in the Yongsan project? Or, maybe that same builder that said for years(since 2009)they were going to pay for the landmark building in Seoul’s Digital Media Center will rename itself and jump on the project in Yongsan?
VWBUG
9:08 pm on June 5th, 2012 16
Urban space remind me to write the mayor of Las Vegas and ask her to raise enough money to redesign the strip area because it has out lived it usefulness in the state it is in now. The other week my girl friend and I went on a trip there. I was disappointed in the condition of the city in the day time. While driving down the strip I notice a very large amount of exhaust smog dust and black jelly stuff on the trees and plants from all the cars that go up and down the strip spearing those gases on plants to humans. Black smog. I think it would be a good ideal to take out the strip and lined it with green space and use small tram train to move the tourist around. some part of the strip side walks are not uniformity designed to transport pedestrians in a even flow because some the casino’s store front are either build to far back or build to far forward. Walking down the strip side walk and consequently had to go inside the casino front door to go around the pedestrians’ that was impeding my way, noticing the side walk was to small, because the front of the casino was build to far out. Actually you need to get out of theses elderly people running the city. Isn’t this crazy Oscar Goodman retired and did not want to be mayor any more and guess who became mayor; his wife, isn’t that crazy. I have a vision that the strip should be redesign with no strip, green spaces, casino’s, theaters, out doors theaters parks, water falls, tram service, bicycling, horse racing, seating area you can walk up in down the strip you will not find one area design for taking the load off. nuts. This city this State should become a test bed for America social issues that the people want to do but the government want let them. let say precursor to legalizing marijuana café’s and prostitution brothels. should be a test city and the state of Nevada Another ideal I got is to have the F government run the whole show and the proceeds go to social welfare programs, health care and help other poor states like Mississippi. Can somebody make me the leader. Tired old people equal tired old ideal.
come on
6:19 am on June 6th, 2012 17
@ #4
come on he fled that shit hole long ago like thousands of others the first chance he got .
We all know there’s no going back.
Seoul Guy
7:41 am on June 6th, 2012 18
#16, get a life! That’s a long essay.