{"id":3937,"date":"2017-03-23T18:20:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T01:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=3937"},"modified":"2017-03-23T18:20:15","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T01:20:15","slug":"seoul-urbanism-on-tbs-efms-koreascape-the-destruction-of-bamgol-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=3937","title":{"rendered":"Seoul Urbanism on TBS eFM\u2019s Koreascape: The Destruction of Bamgol Village"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Each month\u00a0I join\u00a0Kurt Achin, host of\u00a0Koreascape<\/a><\/em> on Seoul\u2019s English-language radio station TBS eFM, for\u00a0an exploration of one of Seoul\u2019s urban spaces. This month we join urban explorer Jon Dunbar of Daehanmindecline<\/a>\u00a0for a walk through an old neighborhood called Bamgol Village \u2014 or what’s left of it.\u00a0Urban redevelopment never stops in Seoul, and when it happens it scrapes whole communities off the map, usually in order to replace clusters of low-rise buildings with another set of the high-rise tower blocks that have increasingly characterized the city since the 1970s. Bamgol Village’s bid to save itself with by filling its walls with colorful murals didn’t pan out, and\u00a0as in all such condemned neighborhoods, some residents haven’t had an easy time leaving: amid the heaps of rubble stand half-demolished houses still strewn with possessions, and at least one may even remain occupied.<\/p>\n