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Completed in 2023 in Jongno-gu, South Korea. Images by Yongjoon Choi. Kim Swoo-geun’s masterpiece “Space,” a building designed between 1971 and 1977 during South Korea’s military dictatorship, explores the identity of...

Completed in 2020 in Jongno-gu, South Korea. Images by Kim Yongsoon. Inwangsan Mountain, Seochon, Wihang literature. Han River and the mountains around grant Seoul a character of its own. Outer mountains surround the...

The final rites for late actor Lee Sun Kyun took place on December 29 in Seoul. Among those present at the funeral were Bong Joon Ho, Kim Nam Gil, Park So Dam, and more. Read on!

Completed in 2022 in Jongno-gu, South Korea. Images by Donggyu Kim. Beer traces its roots back some 14,000 years, emerging well before the onset of agriculture by humankind. The modern iteration of beer, fermented...

Completed in 2022 in Jongno-gu, South Korea. Images by Yoon Joon-hwan. In the physical limit of 58m2 site, the scale limit of less than two stories and less than 8m height, and the criteria to judge the effective...

Completed in 2022 in Jongno-gu, South Korea. Images by Yongjoon Choi, Swan Park. The Outdoor Room is a pavilion for the 4th Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, 2023, titled Land Architecture, Land Urbanism, and built in...

Completed in 2023 in Jongno-gu, South Korea. In the heart of Seoul, right beside the historic Joseon Dynasty palace, an emblematic space emerges from the ground. The location of Songhyeon Dong...

Completed in 2023 in Jongno-gu, South Korea. Images by Pezo von Ellrichshausen. Before any social contract and right after our supposed subjective singularity, there is an individual mirrored in another individual, that is: a...

Completed in 2023 in Jongno-gu, South Korea. Images by Pezo von Ellrichshausen. Before any social contract and right after our supposed subjective singularity, there is an individual mirrored in another individual, that is: a...

Completed in 2023 in Jongno-gu, South Korea. Images by Rohspace. The Pavilion of Contemplation is the latest project of “Tree Series.” The "Tree Series" is series of design experiments that recreate the wooden...