That Was Then...

Last week for the holiday Saejin and I went down to the Cheonggyecheon stream in downtown Seoul. Once upon a time it was a fetid stream that people used to bathe and wash in. Each summer it flooded out many houses and businesses. The government finally filled it in and built a huge express way over it. This huge ugly road really darkened the downtown core (but admittedly it was fun to drive on as you shot past and looked down on a ton of lights and people busily buzzing about). This expressway is now gone and a new Cheonggyecheon stream has been built up to make Seoul green. These pictures were up under a bridge along the new Cheonggyecheon stream that showed what the place looked like in 1903, 1930 and 1960.