My brother's Korean gf told me that Korea is filled with commie blocks because the government has super strict commie style regulations that makes it impossible to build houses in the countryside. That's why you see cities right beside rice fields instead of a the apartment>suburbs>rice fields pattern you see in normal countries.
Also wartime Korean houses were ghetto so people started to idolize apartments instead. As a result the government bulldozed entire historical districts and got rid of natural roads and replaced it with grids of apartments.
Yes, we demolished all the historical districts 60s~90s. Ironically. its the foreigners live in Seoul who protested and complaint against Government not to demolish traditional house. Korean didnt give a fuck Traditional houses in Seoul like pic are mostly bulldozed by government.
Fortunately, Foreigners bought some traditional house to preserve.It was really cheap at that time. Now the value soared. They did really well investment looool.
Aaron Hall
Death to America.
Thomas Robinson
Ironically, Foreigners who visited North Korea say North preserved historical district really well compared to South.Despite a lot of them were destroyed during the war, they tried to preserve leftover.
i blame them, they set up a densely populated capital and encouraged its growth. it's within fucking artillery range of the north.
Jason Morgan
Yes we were experiencing over-fast growth(Gdp growth 10~15%) and over-population(Birth rate 4~5).
Government couldnt take this massive change in short time.Tons of housing were needed for new urban citizen.
Austin Scott
Yes. They should have not urbanized and stayed an agrarian economy. The Norks would have never taken advantage of that
Jace Ward
or they could've you know, relocated their capital and government infrastructure a wee bit south of the DMZ.
Grayson Foster
I don't think that'd have gone down too well with the people.
Christian Long
why's that? they could simply have established the capital further south and leave Seoul the way it was. the fact that they encouraged its density by establishing government there and increasing it's density by improving infrastructure is part of the reason why the north has such significant leverage over the south.
Cooper Clark
also, who gives a fuck if the south koreans were agarians. the only thing holding the north back was the USA. the entire south could go back to the stone age and the Americans would still have enough firepower to defend them.
Jackson Rodriguez
Because of its historical relevance as capital of Korea, moving the capital would have been an admission that the govt. couldn't protect its people, and a concession of the north to the Kim government.
Thomas Jenkins
Thats not how it works. By bolstering the nation's value on the on the world stage, Korea was in a better position to secure America's willingness to protect the nation in case of war. After what happened in vietnam, US became wary of risking another land war in Asia, which unsurprisingly enough, coincided with the beginnings of indigenous Korean arms industry.
Jackson Mitchell
define traditional house for me. like really old ass house with no doors/guarded by gates or single houses from kdrama.
Sebastian Bennett
Reminds me a lot of Hanoi. For a commie country, Vietnam has a lot if cities with soul It's a shame Korean cities are so Seoulless
Cooper Adams
Hanyeong, i'm learning hangul right now it's pretty easy.
