The picture above is of Jongno Avenue, one of the major
streets in central Seoul. The Japanese erected the red
buildings on the left in a style representative of the Japanese colonial architecture
that was built around Seoul between 1910 and 1945; other well-known examples
include Seoul City hall and the Seoul railway station. Many of these buildings
-- often imitations of neo-classical architecture popular in Europe at the time
-- have been destroyed since, in the flurry of modern development that swept
Seoul in the late-1960s and 1970s. Perhaps the most famous example, the
Japanese occupation headquarters, was destroyed in the mid-1990s in a symbolic
gesture to rid Seoul of any traces of colonialism.
Courtesy of koreaBANG
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