The theme of the Korean Pavilion this year is perma n stant (permanent + instant).
As one of the oldest modern metropolitan areas with longer than 600 years of history, Seoul exposes its marginal layer of time-cumulated strata when the innumerable thin layers of instant events incessantly tint on the surface of it. The first part of the theme, perma supposedly epitomizes all the characteristics and fundamental geographic elements the city possesses with relatively constant nature, while the latter part, n stant could suggest all of its momentary and adaptable images and shifts we see these days.
Built in the early ’60s, the first apartment complex in Korea contained only 642 units. Today, almost half of the eighteen million population lives in apartments.
The market for buying apartements is divided in two: the open market which deals with “second hand” units and “bunyang” which means sale by the drawing of lots, […]
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