Jamsil, a city growing together
A place to move into a new apartment, catch a train and cheer at a ballgame. These 100 photographs follow lives growing together in and around Jamsil, from 1975 to 2009.
Begin with the first photograph1975–1979
Building homes, becoming a neighborhood
Apartments rise on construction sites and people gather in anticipation of new homes. Life in Jamsil begins among low buildings and broad stretches of open ground.
A neighborhood before its windows
Unfinished apartment blocks face one another across bare earth. Scaffolding and materials occupy the space where gardens and parking bays will later appear. The repeated concrete frames reveal the scale of a housing project intended to accommodate many households at once.
Gathering before new homes
People gather beneath a tall banner announcing the apartments’ completion. Pale walls, straight roads and young street trees all look newly installed. Finishing homes was both the beginning of private domestic lives and a public occasion for presenting a new district.
Conversation at the opening ceremony
Residents in floral tops and sleeveless clothing gather by a railing. Smiles and gestures soften the formality of the ceremony. The archive records that these municipal apartments were allocated to people displaced by clearance projects, giving this conversation a wider housing context.
An arena larger than the traffic
A few small cars pass the indoor arena beneath its layered roof. Broad traffic lanes and an open forecourt emphasize the building’s size. Completed in 1979, the arena would become part of the Jamsil sports complex that hosted international competitions.
Daily life rises fifteen floors
Rows of balconies climb above open grounds and planted space between the buildings. Large block numbers help residents locate their homes within the complex. Completed in 1978, Jamsil Jugong Complex 5 records a moment when fifteen-story apartments were changing the height of everyday housing.
1980–1983
The trains arrive, and so do the people
Commuter platforms, new bridges, sports facilities and a children’s park connect homes to places for travel and shared use.
The lake before the amusement park
Exposed earth and construction tracks trace the curve of the lake. The mature trees and amusement structures associated with Seokchon Lake are absent. In 1980, the shoreline and its roads were still being shaped as part of a new residential district.
Repeated buildings, separate lives
Apartment rows with red walls and pale stairwells stretch into the distance. Their repetition makes the method of large-scale housing provision visible. These municipal apartments were built in stages during the 1970s to address housing needs among people without homes of their own and displaced residents.
A train beside the apartments
A red-striped train runs along elevated tracks beside apartment blocks. Bare land remains alongside paved streets below. This trial run preceded the 1980 opening of Line 2 between Sinseol-dong and Sports Complex, extending the new residential district’s connections across the city.
A new connection across the river
A train crosses Jamsil Railway Bridge above wide water and exposed sandbars. River and open ground occupy more of the scene than buildings. The small train on the long bridge points toward a new daily connection between homes and workplaces on opposite banks.
Summer shirts fill the platform
Passengers leaving the train crowd the platform. White short-sleeved shirts, rounded glasses and curled hairstyles stand out. Photographed in 1981, soon after Sports Complex Station opened, the scene shows the railway’s impact as a flow of people rather than a piece of infrastructure.
Platforms above the water
Diving platforms rise at several heights above the pool, while large windows cast light across the water. Without swimmers, the structure of the sporting facility becomes especially clear. Alongside new homes and roads, Jamsil was acquiring specialized spaces for high-level competition.
The new ballpark fills with spectators
Beneath the dark curve of the roof, spectators surround a green baseball diamond. Their density makes the new park’s scale tangible. This is a high-school invitational game celebrating the ballpark’s opening in July 1982, at the beginning of a familiar place for watching baseball.
A new route below ground
Two escalators sit between orderly tiled walls, their handrails and metal steps sharply defined. The photograph belongs to the record of Line 2’s extension from Sports Complex toward Seoul National University of Education. The subway changed not only travel distances but also the everyday act of moving between levels.
A green train and its destination
The green train carries a destination sign for Sports Complex. No platform screen doors separate it from waiting passengers, and its cab remains plainly visible. Before Line 2 became a complete loop, Jamsil was a terminus; the small sign preserves that earlier geography.
Local roads become a city artery
Curving roads, apartment blocks and open construction ground share the frame. Routes passing above and below one another give traffic a new vertical organization. This widening work near Jamsil Bridge formed part of Gangnam-ro, now Olympic-daero, turning the riverbank into a major transport corridor.
Beyond the roadside trees
Established rows of trees follow the road while earthworks reshape the riverbank beyond them. An existing route and a new recreational landscape appear side by side. The construction of Jamsil’s riverside sports park records a shift toward using the river’s edge as part of everyday life.
Small drivers learning the city
Children pedal miniature vehicles along a road with crossings and traffic lights, watched by adults in winter coats. Opened in 1983, the children’s traffic park reduced the street to a child’s scale. Learning how to share an increasingly motorized city became part of play.
1984–1988
The faces that welcomed the world
Stadiums and roads alone could not host the Games. Citizens, volunteers and countless preparations bring the Asian Games and Seoul Olympics into view.
A photograph beneath Hodori
Visitors pass beneath giant Olympic rings and the Hodori mascot. People in the foreground pause and face a camera. Around the main stadium’s opening in 1984, a building made for international sport was also becoming a new destination where citizens recorded their own visits.
While the stadium roof rises
Red steel forms a lattice in the air, surrounded by cranes. Materials and earth on the ground still bear little resemblance to an orderly finished arena. This record of the Olympic weightlifting venue’s roof-raising shows how preparations for international sport also meant years of large construction projects.
Speed released at the starting line
Runners drive out of their starting positions, framed by lane numbers, blocks and the scoreboard beyond. The photograph catches movement just as it begins. At this 1985 international athletics meet, Jamsil’s main stadium was already hosting competitors and spectators before the Olympics arrived.
A leap suspended in the air
A high jumper rises close to the bar as spectators watch from beside the track. The stadium’s orderly seating contrasts with the brief, irregular shape of a body in flight. In this photograph from the 1985 international meet, one person’s movement takes precedence over the scale of the venue.
Redrawing the river’s edges
Bridges follow one another beyond Jamsil Bridge and its railway neighbor, while long construction strips line both banks. Earth, roads and apartments share a landscape being reorganized. The Hangang development project reshaped spaces for movement and recreation as well as the river’s engineered edges.
A village across from the stadiums
Apartment blocks of varying heights stand directly across the road from the sports complex. Construction traces and young trees remain between them. Built for the 1986 Asian Games, the athletes’ village was also a residential landscape whose life would continue after the event.
The citizens behind the event
Colored decorations radiate from the ceiling above rings of seating. Volunteers, rather than athletes, occupy the arena’s center. The 1986 Asian Games volunteer gathering reveals another part of international sport: the time contributed by people handling guidance, hospitality and event operations.
An event made of individual faces
Beyond faces and shoulders in the foreground, rows of neatly dressed participants fill the hall. What looks like a single crowd from afar becomes distinct expressions and hairstyles at close range. The photograph brings individual people back into the collective label of citizen volunteers.
How a city welcomes visitors
A WELCOME banner and Asian Games signs span a broad road. Trees, median planting and crossings form an orderly approach. Hospitality extends beyond a stadium gate: the journey to the event becomes part of the city’s presentation to its visitors.
A new road awaiting its traffic
Fresh lane markings run toward an underpass, with open ground and utility poles emphasizing the road’s width. The 1986 extension of Nambusunhwan-ro connected Daechi-dong with Garak Market. Infrastructure linking housing and commerce appears here before the surrounding landscape has fully filled in.
A center for life between the blocks
A low, rounded commercial building sits among taller residential towers, bordered by small plazas and walking routes. The Asian Games village needed more than rooms to sleep in. Places to shop and meet others helped turn a collection of dwellings into a neighborhood.
A stone becomes a riverside seat
Anglers sit on stones with long rods extended over the water. Hats, vests and small tools at their feet show the preparations for leisure. Even within a record of riverbank development, people find their own places beside the water. Large construction projects and unhurried afternoons coexist.
Different clothes, one starting line
People in T-shirts, long trousers and sportswear spread across the broad road. Their everyday clothing contrasts with the coordinated uniforms of professional athletes. The 1987 run along the Olympic torch route turned anticipation of the Games into an event citizens could join with their own bodies.
People beneath a new gateway
Visitors in suits and summer shirts pass beneath the enormous wing-like roof. Murals and Olympic rings remain prominent while people appear small below them. Completed in 1988, the World Peace Gate became both the park’s emblem and an entrance for countless later meetings and outings.
A boulevard dressed for the Games
Balloon decorations line the road, with apartment blocks beyond its broad crossings. A route built for cars and pedestrians wears the additional signs of celebration. Before the Olympics, ordinary roads around Jamsil’s residential districts also carried the atmosphere of an international event.
Wishing for success beside the river
Performers in hanbok move before spectators gathered along the water and the vessel’s tiered railings. Flags and decorations transform a landing place into an event venue. This 1988 lantern festival at Jamsil’s riverbank brought performance, religious observance and public anticipation of the Olympics together.
New kinds of buildings by the lake
A tall hotel and red amusement structures appear across the water. Forms designed for hospitality and entertainment join a landscape previously dominated by residential blocks. The archive dates Hotel Lotte World’s completion to the 1988 Olympics, as the lakeside acquired new roles in leisure and consumption.
The Olympics at court level
Players in contrasting uniforms gather beneath the basketball hoop. Olympic rings, taegeuk decorations and purple seats surround the bright court. This is the women’s game between South Korea and Bulgaria at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, bringing a vast international event down to the movements around a single ball.
1995–1996
In the stands, the lanes and by the water
Daily life continues after the major events. The 1990s unfold through people watching baseball, taking a boat onto the lake and playing ball beside the river.
An older lane beneath the trees
Low apartment blocks continue beyond the large number 70, with parked cars following the shade inside the complex. Poles and wires run close to the homes. Instead of a new development’s ceremonial frontage, the photograph shows the interior of a neighborhood shaped by years of use.
Repairing the bridge beside moving traffic
Workers in straw hats and work clothes stand over exposed road reinforcement while cars and trucks pass in the next lane. A bridge already woven into everyday travel must be repaired while movement continues. The scene brings the maintenance labor behind urban convenience into view.
Green trains on a line into the distance
Train windows and bridge rails narrow toward a distant point, enclosed by protective fencing and overhead wires. Despite being called a subway, this part of the system runs above ground and across the river. The train is a visible presence in Jamsil’s landscape, not merely a route beneath it.
An island of amusement in the lake
A compact island of castle-like buildings and rides sits in dark water, backed by a department store and hotel. Lakeside walks, shopping and amusement-park visits are connected in one place. Jamsil’s residential landscape has also become a destination for family outings and leisure spending.
A wedding dress before a fairy-tale backdrop
Two people in a white wedding dress and dark formalwear stand beneath a pointed tower, with a ride track behind them and others nearby. Architecture designed for visitors becomes a setting for a personal photograph. The image of a leisure destination enters a private family album.
A slower walk beside the attractions
A person walks along a narrow path beneath thick trees. Branches and the earthy walkway fill the frame rather than spectacular rides. Seokchon Lake was not only a destination for visitors from elsewhere; it also supported the quieter routine of a short neighborhood walk.
A tall swing at the neighborhood sports day
People wait beneath a high swing decorated with colored fabric while one rider rises into the air. Spectators in hats sit beside the track. A venue associated with international competition also becomes a place where neighborhood residents play, watch and cheer together.
Cheering for Jamsil 1-dong
Large neighborhood labels hang in front of stands filled with hats and colorful cheering materials. At this autumn sports day, residents rally behind local district names rather than national or professional teams. An administrative address becomes the name of a group celebrating together.
A pause during a group outing
Children sit in a row on a low curb beneath a large sculpture, with small bags beside them and an adult standing nearby. The scene catches a quiet pause in a group excursion. The park’s stadiums and artworks offered a destination for outings without leaving the city far behind.
Yellow tracksuits beneath the trees
Children in matching yellow outfits sit on benches and gather around trees. Some rest while others stretch and move; identical clothing does not make their actions identical. Their small gestures turn the monumental park into an ordinary place for play.
A plaza becomes a practice ground
People spread across the broad brick plaza, bending and balancing as they move. Their nearby gestures draw attention before the arena behind them. The flat space outside a sporting venue lets citizens practice at their own pace; the margins of monumental buildings acquire everyday uses.
The Peace Gate after sunset
The gate’s broad roof becomes a dark outline beneath pink clouds. Open space between sky and structure matters more than the daytime details of a ceremonial landmark. Long after the Games, the building continues to receive changing light and frame ordinary evenings in the neighborhood.
Unfinished land beside the hotel
Earth piles and construction vehicles occupy ground next to an established hotel and department store. Inside the fence, surviving trees stand beside excavated areas. The photograph records the second Lotte World site: unfinished land remained alongside a mature commercial destination.
A city gathering beneath the bridge
Bicycles, cars and people gather below enormous bridge piers. The long shade formed by repeating columns offers shelter from the open riverbank. Traffic moves overhead while people linger beneath it: different speeds of urban life occupy the same structure.
One shot on a dirt court
A player in a sleeveless top releases the basketball while two others watch its arc. Packed earth and a movable hoop replace a polished indoor court. No grandstand is needed to begin a game; the riverbank offers a nearby place to move and spend time together.
Consumption on a larger scale
Tall advertisements hang on the department store’s distinctive facade while cars and buses line the road. The building serves as both a place to shop and a prominent urban marker. Commercial space on this scale gives Jamsil’s intersection a different character from the small shops between apartment blocks.
Running and reading on the same path
A person in red runs along the lakeside while someone on a bench looks down at a paper. Water appears between bare branches. Exercise and rest share the same walkway, demonstrating the value of an urban park without any special event taking place.
A chimney above low apartment roofs
A long chimney rises among apartment roofs of similar height, with bare trees visible between the blocks. Unlike the larger buildings in the distance, this neighborhood is organized in low, closely repeated units. The photograph records the density of Jamsil Complex 2 before redevelopment.
Cheering becomes part of the show
Cheerleaders in red tops and white shorts move on a platform directly in front of spectators. The ballpark is a field of play and a performance space at once. Coordinated movement and the crowd’s participation make cheering part of the experience of watching baseball.
Many faces watching one field
Caps, sunglasses, jackets and shirts fill the stepped seating. Some spectators lean forward while others sit back. Different clothes and postures share the same direction of attention, as baseball briefly gathers everyday individuals into one audience.
A playground of stones and shallow water
Children with small backpacks crouch and reach between stones at the water’s edge. Bridges and city buildings disappear from the frame, leaving pebbles and fingertips close to the viewer. Riverside leisure does not depend entirely on designated facilities; children find their own activities in shallow water.
Between blocks 301 and 304
Between two walls bearing large block numbers, balconies, laundry and trees recede into the complex. A taller commercial building stands in the distance, yet attention moves inward. What appears from outside to be one apartment development resolves into individual windows and traces of domestic life.
Hodori remains among the trees
Hodori and a SEOUL 1988 sign stand in the shade, with cars and portable barriers in front. Ordinary objects reveal the continuing everyday use of the site. Years after the Games, the mascot remains, turning the memory of a major event into a familiar neighborhood marker.
An old earthwork within the apartment city
Curving water and rounded green ground extend toward surrounding apartment blocks. The low terrain around Mongchon Earthen Fortification introduces a different rhythm from the city’s straight buildings. Olympic Park combines sporting facilities with a Baekje-era historic site and spaces for everyday rest.
A square designed for gathering
Circles and straight patterns cover the broad paving, while glass roofs and buildings divide its edges. Beside surrounding apartments, the square’s open area becomes especially evident. A place planned for large gatherings also provides room for walking, meeting and resting between events.
A bus beneath the bridge
A bus stands below the bridge beside small chairs and other objects, while stairs connect the road above with the riverbank. Space between the piers is more than a passage: vehicles stop and activities take shape there. Small-scale uses attach themselves to a very large structure.
Fishing beneath a red umbrella
An angler stands by the railing beneath a red-and-white umbrella. Water pours over the weir nearby while the bridge extends overhead. A slow act of waiting occupies the middle of fast water and transport infrastructure, giving one small riverside spot a different sense of time.
A short outing in a swan boat
People sit side by side in a white swan-shaped boat on the lake. The paths and rides remain nearby, yet being afloat creates a small separation from them. A brief experience of the water does not require a distant journey; leisure in Jamsil also lives in these modest, specific memories.
A yellow bus before the sports complex
A yellow bus and differently colored cars pass along a tree-lined road. A sporting roof rises behind them, while a banner announces another event. Roads and facilities created for major competitions continue as the setting for work journeys, school trips and ordinary travel.
A ball game before the blue canopy
People in similar uniforms exchange a ball on packed earth, backed by a blue canopy, the river and apartment blocks. Unlike the spectacle of a professional stadium, this is the repeated practice of a small group. Riverside sports space lets people participate in the activities they also watch.
1999–2000
Looking closely at familiar things
Rooftop water tanks, layered shop signs, station windows and parked cars. The neighborhood enters a new century through small, tangible traces of everyday life.
Green ground beyond the circle of flags
A fountain rises behind a circle of flags, with low earthworks and woodland across the water. A memorial landscape for an international sporting event shares the view with Mongchon Earthen Fortification. The park prepared for the Olympics remains a broad green space long after the Games.
The neighborhood beyond the apartment blocks
Low roofs crowd along a grid of streets, interrupted by a large school and its open dirt playing field. The neighborhoods around Jamsil are not made up solely of large apartment developments. Houses, shops and schools on smaller plots also sustain the daily life of the city.
Blocks 66 and 67, seen from the rooftops
Balconies stack below large block numbers, while round water tanks and pipes line the roofs. Windows, laundry and added fittings distinguish daily life within otherwise similar buildings. Up close, the orderly pattern of the Jugong apartments reveals the traces of years of use.
A game continuing after sunset
Floodlights illuminate the grass and players beneath a black sky. The nearest spectators appear in silhouette, while the opposite stands are densely packed. Night baseball gives large numbers of people a place to share the city’s evening hours after the working day.
A stadium within the bend of the river
Beyond the oval rim of the main stadium and its red running track, the Han River and successive bridges stretch into the distance. Apartments on both banks form long, continuous lines. The stadium appears as one part of a much larger city woven together by housing, roads and water.
A street read through its signs
Signs for academies, karaoke rooms and seafood restaurants climb the facades while cars pass below. Businesses on the upper floors announce their presence as insistently as shops at street level. In Seokchon-dong, what a building offers is often more visible than the building itself.
At the entrance to the traffic park
An arch decorated with traffic-light shapes marks the park entrance. A person in a long coat passes in front of bare trees and apartments. In a city filled with cars, a place where children can learn road rules has become part of the neighborhood’s everyday facilities.
A small character teaching road rules
A playful cutout in a uniform and cap stands on the broad paved ground. Shadows from bare branches stretch across the surface. The character gives the rules of a complicated road system a form that children can approach, bringing play and safety education into the same park.
A street continuing beneath the railway
Cars pass below the elevated railway, with shops and pedestrians gathering along its shaded edge. Around Seongnae Station, trains move above while neighborhood journeys continue below. A major transport structure shapes not only movement but also the light and levels of the streets around it.
A lane narrowed by parked cars
Parked vehicles fill both sides of the road between low apartment blocks. Laundry and bare trees appear above them. As more cars occupy a development built around homes, walking, parking and everyday domestic life share an increasingly crowded strip of space.
A platform before screen doors
Passengers in coats and backpacks stand beside a train with a green stripe. Steel roof beams and a yellow Way Out sign lead toward the bright open end of the platform. The photograph preserves the spatial openness of an above-ground station where no glass barrier separates passengers from the tracks.
Two red outfits by the station window
An adult and a child in red stand in sunlight from the windows. Other passengers wait beside a pillar or sit on a bench in deep shade. The small station sign, brick wall and apartments outside frame the different kinds of waiting that coexist in a commuter station.
Apartments, roads and riverbank in parallel
Beside the long rows of Jangmi Apartments, a road, green embankment and riverside playing fields run in parallel. Reaching the water involves crossing several changes of level and boundary. Living near the Han means both looking toward the river and finding a route down to it.
An earthwork path before glass towers
A low rope fence follows the curve of a green mound, with tall office buildings beyond the path. Mongchon Earthen Fortification, a Baekje historic site, survives within the modern city. The gentle height of the earth and the straight rise of the towers bring different periods into one view.
An everyday road beside the Baekje tombs
Red flowers line a stone wall and tiled roof as a car passes. Two people cross the road, continuing an ordinary neighborhood journey. Around the Seokchon-dong tombs, an ancient site, motor traffic and people on foot are close neighbors.
Children crossing an open dirt square
Children in a yellow top, overalls and a small hat walk across broad, unpaved ground. Birds scatter overhead, with other visitors near the distant trees. The open space around the historic site is both a place to learn about the past and a neighborhood yard where children can move freely.
On the water, facing the stadium
Several people lie or crouch on boards, with a pink sail raised to one side. Jamsil Sports Complex forms the backdrop across the river. Away from the spectator stands, riverside leisure takes another form as people use the water themselves.
A cycle path beneath the motor road
Cyclists in bright sportswear and helmets approach along the red path. Heavy piers support the elevated road above, while tall grass borders the route below. Cars and bicycles travel along the same riverside at different heights and at very different speeds.
2004–2009
Homes are rebuilt, seasons return
Beside land cleared for new apartments, people continue to eat, walk in the park and photograph children. Large urban changes and recurring routines both become memories of Jamsil.
Three benches in a snow-covered park
Snow covers branches and grass, with three benches arranged in a row. One person walks in a red coat while another sits at the end of a bench. In its quietest season, a park built for large events becomes a collection of small places for individual time.
The scale of an intersection, traced in light
Rows of vehicles and long light trails cross the intersection seen from above. Decorative lights in the trees and commercial buildings brighten the corner. At night, roads usually read through lane markings become traces of movement, revealing the scale of arrivals and departures at Jamsil’s commercial center.
A giant bicycle announces autumn
Large white bicycle ornaments rise above the planting beds beneath an autumn festival sign. Yellowing street trees continue behind them. Seasonal decoration and events give familiar park entrances a new reason to visit, turning the recurring life of the neighborhood into a festival calendar.
The ground exposed where homes stood
A broad riverside site lies open in earth colors, divided by clearly visible roads. The former Jugong apartment grounds stand apart from the surrounding residential areas. This view of the redevelopment of Jamsil Complexes 1 and 2 records the interval between an established neighborhood and the new apartments to come.
Summer pedestrians cross the apartment avenue
People in shorts and light tops cross in both directions, one carrying a parasol while vehicles wait behind. Their steps give a human scale to the broad road between repeated apartment walls. For a moment, the large carriageway becomes a neighborhood walking route.
Meeting a child’s gaze by the water
An adult in a black short-sleeved top and shorts crouches toward a child. Food and drinks rest on the stone between them, with the bridge and water behind. Even beside large river infrastructure, the photograph centers on a small exchange of gestures—the scale at which an outing becomes a memory.
Choosing a meal in Sincheon’s lanes
People approach beneath signs for spicy monkfish, chicken restaurants and a PC gaming room. Vans and delivery vehicles stand outside the shops, sharing the street with pedestrians. Food, meetings and entertainment sit close together in Sincheon’s dining lanes; walking along them is already a process of choosing an evening.
A blue truck beneath the seafood sign
Squid, flounder and rockfish fill the restaurant sign, with tanks and refrigeration equipment at the storefront. A small blue truck crosses the lower part of the frame. Behind the dishes advertised to diners are the tasks of moving and storing supplies that keep the dining street running.
Model dishes and the street in one window
Model meals sit in rows inside the display, while signs and a car across the street reflect in its glass. Diners can consider the appearance and portions of a dish before reading a written menu. The meal offered inside and the life of the lane outside overlap on a single pane.
Bicycles pass through the exhibition square
A child rides behind an adult on one bicycle while a smaller bicycle travels beside them. Rows of bear sculptures in different colors and patterns stand in the background. Olympic Park’s broad square serves as an exhibition space and a place for children to move and learn to ride.
One photograph beside the painted bears
A child stands next to a large bear sculpture while an adult in a hat raises a camera. Different paintings and colors continue along the row. An exhibition in public space becomes more than something to look at: visitors step beside it and make it part of their own record of a day out.
Cars above, a small boat below
Cars cross the bridge over Seokchon Lake as a small covered boat moves beneath it. Red and yellow leaves frame both shores. A route for passing through and a route for lingering occupy the same view, with the lake holding different speeds at the center of the city.
When yellow leaves become the pavement
Ginkgo leaves fill the view overhead and underfoot. People in jackets and long sleeves walk in groups or pause at the edge of the path. A familiar walkway near the subway station becomes a seasonal attraction, giving neighbors a reason to walk together without leaving the city.
Two tracksuits on a red autumn path
Two people in blue and red tracksuits walk side by side along a tree-lined path thick with fallen leaves. The park offers shared time without elaborate attractions or a major event. Repeated walks can make a neighborhood memorable in their own quiet way.
Hands raised before the run
Participants in sleeveless running tops, race bibs, caps and sunglasses fill the road. Many raise their hands toward the camera at once. A major city street briefly becomes a shared starting line, as the pursuit of a running time meets the gathering spirit of a public festival.
A place to pause on a bridge at night
Lights glow inside a rounded glass observation space, reached by a wooden walkway beside the railing. Vehicle lights stream along the adjacent roadway. Jamsil Bridge adds a place to stop to a structure for movement, bringing crossing the river and looking at it onto the same route.
A changing Jamsil, seen across the river
Beyond broad paving and young trees on the Ttukseom riverbank, the Han opens toward Jamsil Sports Complex and taller apartment buildings. Here, Jamsil is a neighborhood viewed from the opposite shore. The scene reaches 2009 with changes both at the water’s edge and in the height of the residential skyline.