If chaos was a city it would be this one

The transport is absolutely the best thing about living in Seoul. Especially the newish climate cards. ₩62,000 (￡35, $46) a month to travel on all subways and buses has saved me loads on what was already cheap transport.

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50km from your sworn enemy… … get out of there

My in-laws should sell their apartments and move to Canada.

The economic miracle has concentrated too much wealth with the chaebols. Young people feel they can’t afford to buy homes, raise children or enjoy life. Without affordable housing or people to care for the elderly, it will be a slow collapse of society in on itself. A decreasing population will lead to devaluation of the over priced real estate and no money to renew the infrastructure. North Korea is desperate and ready to pounce if they sense South Korea is weak enough. The Miracle may turn out to be just a mirage.

My impressions of Seoul:

I always wonder where are the homeless people?
There are no garbage cans and yet the streets are clean.
Very expensive bicycles are locked with very cheap locks.
I feel safe walking anywhere even at night in deserted areas.
We drove to the grocery store and it took about an hour 😂😂
Public transport is great but very crowded at rush hour which lasts for hours

I was born in Korea in 1984 - my dad was supposed to be on that bridge that collapsed, but he slept in that morning and he ran out the door without having had a chance to check the news. All our relatives and his friends all started calling our house to see if we had heard from my dad, and this being pre-cellphone era, the only thing that was reassuring to us was that the bridge had collapsed just before he left the house. 

Unrelated, but also kind of scary close call - my dad later worked for an American company which had an office in the third WTC that went down in NYC - they moved office a few miles away about a month before the attack. 😳

One of the great things about Seoul is CONVENIENCE.

South Korea needs to revamp the city. It’s has antiquated buildings and sidewalks to name a few

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I am at the first third of this video now. This is a well-investigated, very accurate description of how Seoul has become what it is today. Many foreign media fail to see the plain truth about Asian people and places because the minds of the reporters and the like are heavily clouded by prejudice. For example, when a reporter from Western media stands on a street in Hanoi, they try to find something that can reinforce the images people already have of the Vietnam War. They distort everything in this way. But this video is different. It shows the past and present of Seoul without adding anything. Much respect to OBF!

One correction: good-quality, low-cost residents (ironically called 'villas') are widely available. I am thinking of moving to one of those after retirement myself. If you are a poor South Korean, the government supports you big time. Encouraging the construction of Villas was one of those government efforts. The apartments are expensive because Koreans value them much more than they should. Low-cost residents are almost as good as the high-cost ones. But Koreans still go for expensive apartments. In my opinion, such an attitude towards luxury is what characterizes Koreans.

sejeong plan has failed, it absolutely failed. It isn’t working now.

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제작자가 독재자를 좋아하나 봄 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

Have you seen Delhi

Seoul has been built by a miracle and still needs more miracles for its sustainability.

Katmandu is not Seoul!!

내가 근 5년간 느낀건데, 서양인들은 한국의 부정적인 면만 다룰려고 한다. 장점은 일절 보려고 하지도 않아. 너희 서양인들도 언제까지 부유하고 인구걱정없이 살거같나?

Make a video on Mumbai you will understand what chaos is

way better than dirty Southeast asian countries. I am Mexican BTW:)

어캐알았음;

Public transportation is still crazy cheap after all these years and they are really pulling of the green spaces for such a crowded city. Just needs more trash cans.

I'm live in Seoul, and I've never seen this specific video about my city!

I dunno...when I went there it was tame as shit to compared to here in Japan lol...was like a rural station tbh

하 집사고 싶다 진짜 어디든 ㅈㄴ 비싸..

편집 예술이다 ㄷㄷ

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Spain has the same GDP per capita, HDI or gini as Korea yet Spain has an overall better life with a top notch infrastructure and life expectancy. Korea is not a role model nor Japan.

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Climate change is improving conditions for rural folk.

Fuck the dumb ass hype music in this video

Bro fumbles his years so bad he said Chinese cities were younger than Japanese and Korean coties, theres a difference between BC and AD

you havent been to heraklion

Still cringe Korea

So Seoul station would expand larger than the city itself and to have a built in Airport next to the massive railway hub.

It was the 88 Olympics that the world discovred the Koreans were.....Eating the Dogs!!!

Quit Eating Dogs

South Korea did not have top down decision making, it would have failed. The dictatorship set high level goals of economic development from the top, with a unique mixture of carrots (government support and protected markets) and sticks (actually sending people to jail for corruption of failure to export). South Korea let the global market decide what firms survived and which ones went out of business. Most of the big enterprises from the 1960s-1970s failed. It was a unique system, both authoritarian and free market, it was difficult but over time it worked to develop a world class economy.

Thought for a second it was my city

To be re-written as as "If ORGANISED chaos was a city, it would be this one"!

You haven't seen Kinshasa

better tahn rat york city

title of the video is misleading in many ways

same intro as traders club in Finland

METRO LINE ANIMATION

Seoul, not soul, please ar ti cu la te !

I am very impressed by the perfection of this video, Kudos!