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Seoul gets image of soft city with Cheonggyecheon

By Alan Biggs Contributing writer Cheonggyecheon (literally meaning “Clean Stream”) runs broadly from west to east and is a tributary of Seoul’s Han River. It runs from the Mugyo-dong intersection and, after being fed by some 14 small brooks, joins the Jungnangcheon stream at the Olympic Stadium before they both discharge into the Han River. Only recently has the stream flowed through the middle of Seoul; these days it is hard to believe that just a few decades ago the capital city had practically no presence south of the river. Before this time Cheonggyecheon was the center of gravity of Seoul, and the main water course of the city’s central area. During Korea’s monsoon season there is more than enough water to fill the stream, but during the fall and winter it is dry. The spring snowmelt provides a minimal flow. At different times it has also been called Gaecheon (Digging-out Stream) and later Takgyecheon (Dirty Water Stream), a progression that speaks to the environmental hazards of over-population. Six centuries ago (in the early stages of the Joseon Dynasty, 139

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Korea exports knowhow on housing urban mass

By Kim Sun-woong Visiting senior research fellow Korea Research Institute of Human Settlement More than 80 percent of the Korean population now lives in urban areas. Approximately 24 million people reside in metropolitan Seoul within a radius of about 30 kilometers. This primary city provides shelter to about one half of the whole nation. Excluding city-states such as Singapore, Korea is one of the most, if not the most, urbanized, densely populated, and concentrated nations in the world. Korea's high rate of urbanization and concentration is a natural consequence of the fact that more than 70 percent of the country's relatively small territory is mountainous unsuitable for urban development. Despite the lack of arable land, Korea was basically an agricultural nation only 50 year ago. Following the Korean War, more than two thirds of employment was in agriculture, and three out of four Koreans lived in the countryside. Back then the population of Seoul was only 1.5 million people, out of 20 million in the nation as a whole. Rapid industrialization and successful economic

Korea Development Bank Executive Director Koo Ahn-sook ...