Sewoon Sangga's guest appearances

Sewoon Sangga

tbs eFM Koreascape

Seoul Urbanism on TBS eFM's Koreascape

Seoul Biennale

Haemin Sunim

Jessica Lee

Gregory Pence

Ali Safavi

Atopic Dermatitis

Anthony Brown

Mark Polizzotti

Russell Kelly

Tobias Elof

Steve Roe

Simon Lee

Heezy Yang

Korean Billy

Katherine Bell

OwlTail

This month we explore Sewoon Sangga, the concrete megastructure that has survived half a century of change in Seoul and is now the subject of a revitalization effort like no other. Originally commissioned by Seoul mayor Kim Hyon-ok (nicknamed "The Bulldozer") and designed by famed architect Kim Swoo-Geun (known for works like the Olympic Stadium, the SPACE Building, and the Freedom Hall), Sewoon Sangga opened in 1968 as Korea's first large development mixing both commercial and residential space. Now, with the eight original buildings reduced to seven and much of the business for its electronics shops lost to other parts of the city — but plenty of activity still going on in its labyrinthine interior and on it wraparound public decks — the Dashi Seun (or "built again") project is rethinking, remodeling, and augmenting Sewoon Sangga for the 21st century in an effort to bring together the expertise of the older generation already there with the  enthusiasm of the younger generation of "makers" only just discovering the place.

Sewoon Sangga, the 1960s Megastructure Reborn: Seoul Urbanism on TBS eFM's Koreascape

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