If one were to crown the most bizarre city in South Korea, many users on r/korea would undoubtedly pick Songdo. Officially known as the Songdo International Business District, this 40 billion USD project is promoted as a smart, green, low-carbon city a fifteen-minute drive and a short flight away from a third of the world’s population.
Little do people realize that the city is far from just about everything else. Songdo is part of Incheon, and to get to the former you have to go through the latter if you’re not coming from the airport. From Seoul I took the subway, which crawled past enormous apartment buildings for what felt like more than an hour. I found myself wondering what Douglas MacArthur — the nuke-loving American general who surprised the invading Korean People’s Army here seventy years ago — would say if he could see what this village of brick and tile had become.
It was all too much for me, or at least for my stomach. By the time my map app was telling me I was in Songdo I was about to collapse from starvation. I staggered out of the subway into the dark gray empty station and wandered South Korea’s usual labyrinthine hallways, stairwells, and escalators echoing with electronic voices until I emerged in the middle of… nowhere. [Korea Expose]
You can read the rest at the link of what was a humorous read about what is likely Korea’s most empty city.
It’s the Korea “Expose”. They even criticize South Korea’s mandatory military draft as inhumane. I think their basic theme is social warriors fighting for injustice in South Korea.
It’s the Korea “Expose”. They even criticize South Korea’s mandatory military draft as inhumane. I think their basic theme is social warriors fighting for injustice in South Korea.
Had to slam MacArthur, eh? Folks like that should get shoved across the DMZ, hogtied. You don’t like not being a commie serf? Go be one. 😉