Photo: New areas of South Korea. Would you like to live like this? Building Korea

Recently I flew to Oceania through South Korea, and I had a couple of days to walk around Seoul and Incheon. This is one of the largest cities in Korea, its rapid growth began in the mid-90's, and until now every day there is something new. Now Koreans implement the project "Smart City Songdo" - it will be a large environmentally clean and highly automated area in the port area, but it is not yet completed. But Incheon is a great place to see how Koreans build modern housing.

Koreans have a peculiar approach to housing. It seems to us from the outside that they are simply adopting everything from Americans, Europeans and Japanese, but that's not entirely true. For example, Koreans believe that it's very cool and prestigious ... to live in an anthill houses! Yes, yes, this is not one-story America with its endless suburbs and not the London neighborhoods of townhouses.

But, on the other hand, it's not Parnassus and Murino: another quality of housing, a different attitude to public spaces. Of the total, only the height of buildings and a rather high density of construction, but in Korea there is very little land. The density of population in Seoul is 16 626 people / sq. M. Kilometer, in St. Petersburg - 3764 people. Do you feel the difference?

01. View of Incheon. Everywhere something is being built. In some places there are wastelands, but they do not stay long.