Why Seoul is the perfect example of a chaotic city
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ย. 2024
- The Chaotic Design of Seoul
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Seoul is functional mostly due to 2 things: down-to-earth public transportation system and super cheap cost of public transportation.
대중교통 시스템 잘 발달된 나라 중에 한국만큼 싸고 깨끗한 곳 없음 ㄹㅇ
no it’s not cheap compared to the 80’s
and don’t say that cause it might hike up prices
It's true; I prefer Seoul's metro over Tokyo's. It's easier to use; you almost never have to go above ground to transfer between lines.
@@정의훈-t6h inflation ... geez.. all price goes up when time passes
Fundamentally, Korean public transportation is cheap because of government support. This is in contrast to Japan, which is run by the private sector.
I was stationed (US ARMY) near the DMZ from 1962 - 1964. I went to Seoul once and Pusan once. The difference between then and now shocks me each time I see images from there.
Wow, you were stationed in Korea during the JFK assassination?
@@Mr2Reviews Duty in Korea was for 1 year. I did two tours with a short assignment to Ft. Knox, Kentucky between them. I was at Ft. Knox on that day.
@@Ed_Stuckey Wow. What a day.
@@Mr2Reviews I had night duty the evening before so i had that day off. I was in the barracks watching some TV program when Walter Cronkite interrupted with the announcement.
Thank you for your service from korea
As a Korean and a native of Seoul, how do you know all those exact details, history, and cultural aspects of the city and its people? I can’t imagine how much time you put into creating this great and astonishing documentary. Thank you for producing such excellent work! I really enjoyed it!
I can say that Seoul relies on miracles. There are so many scars and wounds, yet we somehow survive and improve over tragedy. Seoul and RoK face so many problems rooting from its inequal, rapid development, but like public transportation, we will break out of it with another miracle. The miracle of the Han River is basically still ongoing.
The han river event was the start of everything in seoul. The miracle at first, and the tragic at the end.
Excellent insight.
As a mid-fifty Korean man, I've had a strong belief that Seoul (Korea) would always find a way to overcome the difficulties and survive and thrive anyhow, just like you.
But recently, I'm losing that confidence.
Looks like Korea has reached/passed a critical turning point and is now on long downturn which can't be turned back.
Can we find a miracle to overcome current and upcoming situation?
I'm not a pessimist, not even close
But whenever I think about the future of this country, I'm not able to be optimistic anymore
As a South Korean living in Seoul, this video depicts the history of Seoul pretty good. Except spreading people out to Sejong is a failed plan. It was initiated 20 years ago to actually move the capital to Sejong, but the plan was abandonned by the next government. Still, some government offices and many people moved and Sejong is considered as one of the good city to live in South Korea. However, it's lacking infrastructure, especially education and job, prevents the city's further development.
Things might change maybe 10-20 years later when Seoul's real estate price breaks down. Until then, many problems described in Seoul will only deteriorate.
People are leaving Sejong, not fleeing to it.
Sejong is growing faster than its actual plan so they are doing fine. They don't need a subway metro system like NYC or Seoul because they never plan on having millions of people. 1.5 million at MOST but most likely around 1 million. The education is fine there and jobs are slowly growing like every other new city. It's also the highest birth rate city in the country and people aren't as superficial and materialistic there but just plain happy.
A lot of people who live in Sejong work in Daejeon or Cheongju and it’s mostly inhabited by families who moved there to invest in cheaper but rising real estate. It feels kind of empty though and for a planned city it doesn’t feel as sophisticated as it could have if they had better city planning.
@aoh4905 The problem was sejong meant to be "capital". Yes, it is a new born city out of nowhere, but it should activate as a solution. Government, parliament, judiciary are still in Seoul, the city helped nothing about birth rate problem and it didn't solve housing problem.
The reason why this city was built in the first place is not about underdevelopment. It is rather caused by overdevelopment of Seoul. Her Metropolitan area couldn't well handle more population density. It was national problem.
There are many reasons "why the city sejong should be built" but no problem was solved in the context "what could this city can solve".
So, sejong is failed city? I highly doubt that too. But, it is a failed policy. Nothing was achieved by rise of sejong. It was just like any other plane new born city.
Except, it has great dependence upon government administration. If those are gone by simple law or policy, it might turn into a ghost town.
I genuinely don't know why core national ministrys are still in or put more weight in Seoul.
Capital transfer plan was not abandoned by next government. It was abandoned by Constitutional Court, for the reason that Seoul is the capital by customary constitution.
Would agree on a lot except the “Hardly prepared for an invasion “ part. If you look at the mountain ranges in seoul at night, you would see the capitol defense forces having various measures against this lol
That store collapse was more than not doing anything about the cracks.
They built more floors than what the original plan called for, skimped on column support and they put a bunch of AC units on the roof
Yep this. The original construction firm said no to all the design changes so the guy fired them and built the death trap himself.
They even cut a support column for an escalator. It was caused by the hierarchical nature of Korean society where the boss cannot be questioned.
I have been visiting Seoul regularly for 15 years. I have lived in one of the smaller European capitals Ljubljana for most of my life and each time I am in Seoul I am amazed by efficiency and organisation Seoul's transportation, accessibility of medical care etc. Many things seem so thought of and organised in Seoul compared to my home city.
I’m from Belgium , been in Asia for more than 20 years… 16 years in Korea… … you’re right . What I miss is humanity. Koreans became a bit cold. Asocial, etc… but not all of them , it’s just vivid and booming. The cheabol issue is notorious here . But on the other hand, lots got rich and many rich also lost a lot . I feel Korea , is a democratic capitalist test ground . It’s better than the US .
Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul are top-notch cities , especially much better than Western big cities in terms of cleanliness, safety, and convenience
I can confirm Tokyo and Seoul
Haven't been to Singapore but I'm sure it's the same way
Clean and safe
The capital of R.O.C Taipei too
@tylertani I miss tiananmen festival and Nanjing festival...
hoping it to be happened again
@@user-km5hn7jr5iㅋㅋㅋㅋ 잘 멕이누
@@tylertang20 일본의 식민지, 몽골의 식민지였던 중국인이 대체 무슨 자신감으로 그런 말을 합니까?
"Why is *insert non-american city* insanely well designed"
probably because it's built for people and not cars
@@technoguyx you know they are people in those cars right?
@@bionicle37cars are not people. Cars do not become people just because there are people driving them
@@bionicle37 yeah, but they're still built for the cars and not actual real people on foot
well i mean every video in this series is spot on so
This is amazingly well done! You really pointed out almost every details very fast and deep way. So impressive and not biased at all in any way! I'm Korean, born, grew up and educated in Seoul! Really appreciate for making this! Thank you!
An interesting fact at 8:58 - Guryong Village (구룡) when translated into Chinese (九龍) is effectively Kowloon Village.
Nine Dragons in both S.Korea and HK.
구룡성채
The title made me scroll past this video a few times, but i'm glad the algorithm kept serving it - great content.
I am shocked by Korea's current development, including Seoul. This is because Korea was a country where more than 80% of its land was completely destroyed by civil war. Most of the buildings on the ground were literally destroyed. And there are many historic structures that have been destroyed and burned down. Anyone who has studied the Korean War deeply knows that Korea at that time was despair itself.
Not only the United States, but most countries have even said that Korea is a country where there is no more hope after the Korean War. I think it is more than just a miracle that Korea has become an advanced country today and a country that teaches lessons to other countries in many areas. I send my love and respect to the Korean people.
You're so noise
Shut Da F up
Korea like Japan actually had the benefit of being mostly destroyed by war. It is actually easier to develop cities, infrastructure and industry on blank canvases than already complicated ones.
It's the main reason why American cites can't really change as it is a complicated web of zoning, historical buildings and private property.
@@brantkim By this logic, Damascus and Mogadishu and Kabul should be amazing cities by the end of the century lol. It's the people and the culture that made it happen.
@@thekenthouse6428 Definitely culture plays a part as does geographic, political and economic factors.
East Asia has a culture of following hierarchies and rules. The clan based infighting that occurs in almost every country was completed hundreds of years ago and a stable power structure was put in place. In places you mentioned they either never got past the infighting stage or reverted back into with the collapse of their political power structures.
@@brantkimeast Asia was pumped with money, kind of like a startup to stop Soviets
Jealous individuals from developing countries often leave negative comments on videos that discuss how Korea rapidly became wealthier.
Instead of criticizing Korea, it would be more productive to focus on improving conditions in your own country.
West can’t handle east asian countries being superior than them
You know how pathetic and pitiful it really is when a *JAPANESE* has to make that statement.
@@tanz680 Yes I am Japanese, what is your point?
@@grow1820 don't know, ignore him. Good point you made by the way.
@@grow1820
It's not uncommon for the Japanese to leave negative comments on Japanese videos that talk about Korea as well,
but the comments on this video are far worse that out of all the people that could have made that statement, a Japanese did.
효율을 중시하는 한국인 성격은 교통의 발전으로, 허영이 가득한 한국인 모습은 아파트 부동산투자로, 지기 싫어하는 경쟁심은 잠들지 않는 도시로. 서울은 한국인 모습 그 자체다.
멋진 글입니다
🥺
안녕하세요 Mr. I lived in Seoul for 1 year as an EU citizen and I must say this is what I felt like, I think your comment is very accurate
I truly love your channel. Keep doing the best work.
You didn't butcher jeonse, but you did Gyeonggi and Hyundai. Great vid!
Took me a minute.. I was like where is Jeonji????
@@lewiss.3786 Gyeonggi isn't Jeonji
It pronounced g(weak k)jʌng gi
glad to see someone else who wanted to reassure him of the pronunciation :D
To call Seoul beautiful is a stretch. As a Korean, there are many reasons to love Seoul and I do love this city. But beautiful isn't a word that comes to mind when I think of my hometown.
To each their own. Most natives of a city rarely call their home city beautiful because the sights you see and the things you do wear out and blend into everyday life. I spent most of my life in Canada and I personally find life in Seoul much better.
한강에서 보는 서울은 이쁜데 뭔가 옆도시 도쿄의 세련됨이나 중국도시같은 화려함은 좀 없는듯...
솔직히 화려하진 않아도 되는데 아직 좀 덜 세련된거 같음
스카이뷰가 좀 조잡함.. 건물들의 전체적인 조화가 없음.. 난잡해보임
계획해서 잘 지어논게 아니라 효율성 생각해서 막 지어논 느낌
도쿄 가면 느낀다 도쿄 고층건물는 없는데 세련된 느낌이 딱..
I'm visiting Seoul and many other Asian mega cities. I went to Seoul several times. Maybe more than 15 times over last 10 years and even more than that to Tokyo and Osaka.
Seoul is one on the most beautiful modern cities but it lacks cultural places/acitecture compare to other cities. Maybe because of the war.
Seoul public transportation is on par with Tokyo IMO.
@@EkapolTharasiriroj 문화적 건축물은 도쿄도 적지 않나요?
서울에 남아있는 몇개의 조선 궁궐로는 적어보이나요?
일제강점기와 6.25전쟁, 현대화로 많은 전통 건축물들이 파괴되었습니다.
지금 남아있는 궁궐들도 많이 파괴되고 변형되었습니다. 안타까운 역사. 경복궁은 지금보다 훨씬 컸다.
I didn't know SoKor also had a dictatorship, almost at the same time and length as the Philippines - the difference is that the dictator was able to leverage absolute authority to grow SoKor and it's economy further into a high-income economy. On the other hand, the Philippines' dictator only increased his and family's wealth while dragging the economy further and further downwards.
South Korea has a economically successful dictatorship and the country's first dictator is a former communist.
By the way SoKor? Filipino English can be almost impossible to understand by English-speaking South Koreans.
Taiwan also had one from the same length. It was extremely brutal from what my mother said (Chinese (non-aboriginal), born in Taiwan and lived there until kindergarten and migrated to the US). The KMT were just as brutal as Mao Zedong, the leader of China until about 1980. Didn't know the Philippines were in the same boat. What's scary is it could be argued the Philippines has a trump-like situation because Duterte is also a wannabe dictator and basically PH's version of Trump, if Jon Oliver is even remotely accurate in this regard.
Some post-war asian countries underwent through brutal dictatorships. Indonesia had one, the Philippines, Taiwan and South Korea. The only difference is their regime change brought them to prosperity. Unlike the Philippines where the economy was badly damaged by plunder and crony capitalism 😂
"My life for the nation and the people"
- Park Chunghee
Filipinos should learn to stop putting all the blame on their government, they are so ridiculous and people are also to blame, their mindset their colonial mentality mind and their toxic crab mentality are also things to blame.
8:55 a little fun fact, both Guryong and HK's Kowloon are written as 九龍 in Hanzi/Hanja script. They don't have any ties but it's funny that these towns with same name became famous slums of each city respectfully. If you ever get to name a place, don't name it 九龍 I guess.
Kyuuryuu? Nine dragons?
Yes, and both towns were named after the region where they are.
Kowloon was named after the Kowloon peninsula, and Guryong town is located near the Guryong mountain.
For how well presented this video is, I wish there were better subtitles than the auto-generated ones
Im korean and Seoul is a disorganized city but their public transport is well designed rather than the city itself
Edit: the video creator changed the title so don't take the comment seriously.
Only if they could handle the huge amount of trash on the streets. It was a huge letdown.
@@user-spartiumWhat are you talking about, there’s no trash, at least coming from New York
@@user-spartiumKorean here, it differs alot between districts. tourist attractions like hongdae and gangnam is where u can frequently find trash on the ground, but corporate districts or any other housing districts you’ll find extremely clean streets. tbh i think its the same for new york (currently live here)
@@user-spartiumthey are collected every week. Dirty streets right before collection day
sorry but your opnion does not represent the korea. Compare korea to other countries, it is very organized.
I was just sticking around Seoul a few ago and it looks crazily well-designed with top-notch public transportation.
how amazing, in bolivia we have the same system of "jeonse" and its called "anticretico" and it can be a one year anticretico for example and you pay the owner (the price usually is like paying rent but insted of everymonth its the whole year) and by the end of the year you recive all your money back , some house owners do this like a bank would loan you money but without interest! ist a win win. except there is a risk that the house owner doesnt have money to pay back (for many reasons like the thing they were investing in didnt go well or they spent it all) in that case the owner extend the anticretico for another year and hope to have more money to pay back or have another anticretico to pay the first one
Interesting! Buying a house interest-free with a tenant's rent is called "gap investment" in Korea. In fact, there is a tragedy happening in Korea right now where many young people are losing almost all of their money because the landlord doesn't pay back the rent. Some of the scammers rent the house for more than it's worth or change the landlord (who usually can't pay) right after the contract. Builders and real estate agents who sell above market value with no intention of returning the deposit benefit. This is not uncommon, and many young people go bankrupt or even commit suicide because of it.
I'm glad to say that Bolivia still seems to be okay.
A Ponzi scheme
I live in rather undeveloped area of Seoul(I'm Korean, shoutout to students of hwagok high school!) and when I visit some streets I either feel like I timeslipped into 80s~90s or randomly got teleported to countryside lol
Hwagok is a decent little spot now.
How is your english so good
Like reply 1988? 😂
1:50 The infographic on atlas is distinguishable. Great work. There is much untold yet.
My mind when seeing the thumbnail was like: "Is this Seoul"
*cue to the words "Seoul Station"*
This was a very well made documentary. Took much me time for me to watch since it was more in depth than most videos that I have watched in the past on this topic. The stream brought to the surface, house heating, the airport setup and transit, Floyd control, and capital move in relation to the border were just some of the topics that drew my attention.
“Most chaotic” sir this is not São Paulo
lol
I lived in Seoul for two years just recently and the changes in the city I saw in that time were astounding. The subway/bus system is incredibly reliable, clean and convenient, but for some reason it seems like everyone in Seoul still drives a car so the traffic is impossible, especially if you're trying to leave or come into Seoul. Buying an apartment is incredibly expensive for people and I'm not sure how most young people ever will. That said rent is less but you have to come up with a large deposit to move in. The other striking thing I noticed is that entire neighborhoods regularly get demolished to make room for high rise apartments. It's a bit sad to see because the low rise neighborhoods are very charming with lots of winding alleyways and the high rises erase all of that.
Seoul has been a major city for a couple millennia, too.
- the first capital of Baekje
- a major trading hub under Goguryeo (who took it from Baekje, sacked it and rebuilt it) and then under Silla
- Goryeo (Goguryeo resurrected)’s third largest city
- Capital of Joseon
South Korean here, the department store collapsed one week after my visit with my family, and me back then being a wee little baby still remembered the place on television and was a huge shock to me.
Excellent video - though one updated is needed. We don't really experience monsoon seasons here what with climate change, and now in the summer we experience extreme heat(like everywhere) as high as 36.4 degrees celsius this year(according to KMA) with rain more resembling tropical patterns.
Not only cleaner more advanced. People are better no robberies, pickpockets and assaults just civilized people. Hangang is also one of the cleanest and peaceful clean river parks. Europeans countries need to start accepting East Asian countries are superior and learn fee things from them
The work culture in South Korea is so toxic that 80% of Koreans under 30 want to permanently leave the country. It's no use to have a clean, orderly society if it is soul-crushing to live in.
Seoul has one of the worst air pollution in the world... and it's basically a dystopian society the way Koreans treat each other and the amount of plastic surgery is obscene
@@merrittpalmer4349 nah plastic surgery is based looks matter deal with it lol dystopian? Is that what you call every technologically advanced country now? Lol
@@smartwater598 its dystopian in the way koreans only care about appearance and status and nothing else. everyone is placed in a rigid hierarchy based on age, career, education, wealth, attractiveness, etc. Children are in school from morning to night every day. Nearly every woman gets cosmetic surgery. Everyone has to conform in every single way and anyone who doesn't fall in line gets ostracized. So yes, very very dystopian. It has nothing to do with technology. also lol @ u liking your own comment
@@merrittpalmer4349 broke man's copium lol
majority of the air pollution is coming from China and plastic surgery per capita isn't even that high
서울 한복판에 2천년전에 건설된 흙으로 된 성곽의 흔적이 있어요!
So much difference comparing it to Pyongyang
Yesss
That’s what happens when the US destroys every single building taller than 1 story, forces the entire population into literally living underground and then drops an embargo so catastrophically crippling that it’s hard to even get a single grain of rice imported and sustains that embargo for over 60 years.
That & pumping funds into their side of the line to rebuild what they destroyed 😂
All things considered, Pyongyang is a beacon of resilience & diligence.
@@Jem_Apple Amen.
@@Jem_Applenorth korea invaded south korea and started the korean war. did north korea not expect retaliation? Also pyongyang is a symbol of the north korean elite while the rest of the country starves and suffers under the kim dictatorship
@@Jem_Apple Maybe, but I'm pretty sure it would have been in much much better shape if the government invested all the money they wasted on weapons to actually build a functioning economy. The USSR wasn't a minor economic power, NK could have grown much more with their aid. They just didn't take that chance.
Good vid, but needed to highlight Seoul's 2040 Plan; Gwanghwamoon is to be a cultural center, Yoido, a financial distric and Gangnam as an IT sector. Other parts of city are to be developed and interconnected to and from the three main district.
Now that the US Troops are moving out of Yongsan, which is in the smack center of the said three district, will be a one big park following the model of Central Park if NY or Hyde Park in London.
Housing issues are to be resolved with fast transit GTX express being built as we speak, connecting satellite cities to and from Seoul. I figure not all people working in Manhatten don't really need to live in Manhatten.
The vid may have touched on Sejeong City a bit of a too much emphasis implying the new city may become a second Seoul; it won't. Sejeong City will function similar to the Hague or Canberra.
At best,
seoul is the most chaotic city? what are you on? go to any city in india and learn what real chaos is.
bruh
Well yeah this video changed titles like 3 times first it said that it was organized (which belive me isn't) after calling a modern city after well this.
Trueee😂😂
"It would be great if our music, including that of our fusion band Oriental Express, could be used to describe Korea when you talk about it."
One of the great things about Seoul is CONVENIENCE.
I think this video summarized development of Seoul very well. But one thing I want you to reconsider is the assessment on Capital moving. Nobody thinks Se-jong is prior to Seoul because its farther distance from North Korea. The moving plan seems not quite successful. We're on the course of moving administrative complex to Se-jong, but nobody has a reliable plan about how to make Se-jong as another center of entertainment and education. No city can be loved without the content inside in it. Compared to Seoul, Se-joing lacks a lot to be a pleasant living place.
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Seoul urbanization history is very similar to São Paulo. Moon towns are literaly the favelas and poorer suburbs ( suburbs and favelas aren't the same, but favelas usually are in suburbs ) in the edgeof São Paulo. The Real state buildings is similar to São Paulo's COHAB and CDHU, also in suburbs. The house market speculation is the same ( and everyone ignores that is bad ), the gentrification is the same. The population is almost the same , São Paulo has almost 12 millions habitants and is a very dense city. Both city were raised in rivers region. São paulo has 3 major rivers ( Pinheiros at west to South, and Tietê at west to east, and Tamanduatei at east to the southeast ), these 3 river usually flood. Tietê at 90s flooded totally and this was a huge problem because Tietê river is in the entry of city. Sáo Paulo also faced fll of birth rates, and lost of population that are migrating to the "great São Paulo", metropolitan cities surrounding the capital. I did that. The problem is that many of theses cities were poor, and lack of infra structure, so receive too much people could be really bad. Some cities are doing well, some others don't. Another HUGE problem is that the healthest peoplefrom São Paulo only moveto metropolitan areas if the urbanization was more american way.
The only major difference is the São Paulo's streets plan is was based on Los Angeles, very car oriented. Ande the current urbanization is based on suburbian sprawls and parking club residentials from north american cities as I said above, that are messing up more the city and metropolitan cities. But in the past few years São paulo tried to use Seoul and Tokyo as study case. There'is a huge linear park been build at Pinheiro's river, but far from the beauty of Seoul river, and the Pinheiro still very poluted and smelly.
Korea also had a really similar history as Brazil, and the similar rural exodus with a large city concentrating the population, and now facing a reverse exodus to the country cities.
9:17 To be more... accurate, protests did pressure the dictatorship, but did not effectively end it.
Next president, Noh Taewoo was a close friend of Chun as they both orchestrated the coup when they were generals.
Noh later dumped Chun, and it showed as change in leadership. So S.Korea was a democratic nation only in appearence, while in fact, ruled by the military.
It was only so when President Kim Youngsam was elected. He was originally the opposing party, but pretended to go with the military political power, Hanahwe, and became elected.
... but after he was elected, he showed his true colors; a believer of democracy.
He immediately disbanded and relieved the generals and military officers affiliated with Hanahwe overnight. Any military officer who claimed it was unright, he fired them.
Thats how S.Korea became truely democratic. People wanted democracy, along with a politician who was smart and able enough to overthrow a military regime.
Ps. Its too bad next president, Kim Daejung (got a Nobel peace prize) forgave former president Noh and Chun and their associates.
Their allies remained in power and still plague the S.Korean Government to this very day.
19:00 You missed "L" at the end. It's Yoon Suk-Yeol, not Yoon Suk-Yeo.
11:59 - there is no way that was a real commercial - I hope it isn't being what it came after.....
It was really Hyundai commercial that came out during 70s
@@Wooffff That is sad as heck with all those people that died.... I'm not going to lie, because i laughed real hard for about 2 or 3 seconds and then I remembered what I saw and instantly stopped when it sunk in.
@@cliffwoodbury5319 yes, it was a terrible incident that happened during 1994, the department building A collapsed I have heard so many deaths from people’s. After the incident, citizens wanted to build a memorial park but in 2024, a new high rise buildings were stood up in that area.
@@Wooffff its sad. I was talking to this man I know who has lived in Korea on several occasions and I watch videos on Seoul often, but I never knew of this and some other tragedies I have noticed in several videos lately.
Seoul has recently introduced a monthly cross-plattorm public transit csrd allowing one to even more chrsply ride the metro, buses, and shared e-bikes. And they are also building out high-speed urban rail. Plus fairly good bicycle infrastructure. When. I lived in Seoul from 2015-2028, I could accomplish 90 % of commuting and daily trips by bicycle. These schenes seem to have a good level of support across otherwise relattively polarized political lines, so there is a good prospect for coping with the chaos. We now live in the countryside well south of Seoul and housing costs wre about half but transport infrastructure still has a ways to go. Even so, cheap buses are svailable everywhere; just slower and less frequent
I was born in South Korea in 1994. I learned a lot about my country from this video. Thanks a lot!!
As a Korean who lived abroad as equal to living in Korea, here are some points I wish to speak of.
1. South Korea in general suffers from poor pedestrian infrastructure. Where the average household has 1.5 cars, everything is more personal vehicle focused and centered around it. Despite the abundance of Convenient stores, as we stray away from the capital and the Gyeonggi region, the average commute takes 30m in average for people with personal cars. Due to this issues, people are incentivized to either flock to the closest major city or buy a car. South Korea, suffering from overly dense population, in return causes more illegal parking creating a vicious cycle of a poor pedestrian infrastructure.
2. Sejong City project is a catastrophic failure. First brought up from President Roh Moo-Hyun which was a Democratic party, the project faced many issues due to simply being a project requested from an opposition party. This project would then face many cuts and reformation as the presidents changed due to clashes on the company, the policy, and simply which party brought up the reformation. This Caused Sejong City to have a vastly altering and rapid changing of policy which only caused confusion on residents. Issues from public transport issues to Rush Hour traffic issues, most residents who live in Sejong are workers of government offices or their family in which wishes to leave asap.
3. Seoul does not lack any mean of protection against invasion. Although, as most Korean males would experience and learn during their mandatory military services, Seoul doesn't necessarily have a "proper" defense plan doctrine that some would argue about. The plan is that the North Korea's invasion, if ever carried out, would be halted before the Defense line up north of Seoul is broken. However, there are plenty of anti-air systems, bunkers, foxholes and even apartments designed for combats scattered around to slow down the offence.
4. Along side the Housing issue, every part that contributes to the economy is a downward spiral. Quickly pointing on the Housing issues, the video is very accurate on the current situation. South Korea's housing problem is like an homage of Japan's Bubble economy and housing crisis. However the corruption and the issue of shipments and the movement of goods throughout the country is a bigger problem of its own. The cost difference of items from the main produce to the market can vary up to 10x the price. Unnecessary middle steps in the shipments create additional cost that add up to the final consumer price. This mixed with issues where the cost of items grows as the inflation rises but refuse to drop back down again due to markets creating false scarcity on items that are in large abundance; produce such as farms intentionally throwing and trashing goods to influence the market price, all this has created a united front of issues that creates cost of living always curve higher than the average income. Thus creating a cycle where people spend less as the cost of living is high, which creates individual markets to collapse and cut expenses on workers, the workers losing jobs which in return increases the credit loan and cut on expenditures, which makes the government take actions on the base rate, which cycles towards less loans.
Well made video! Just one thing tho. The president’s name is Yoon seok-yeol not yoon seok-yeo
South Korea needs to revamp the city. It’s has antiquated buildings and sidewalks to name a few
Our best city, and Korean pride built from ashes of war. It was always the best and will be the best in entire penensula.
As an Indian, I have a lot of respect for Korea's meteoric rise to prosperity and development. I wish (and am positive) India would follow suit. May India Korea business relationship grow in future!
yea your video was presented very well. but it is a fact that more and more rich koreans living in countrysides are moving in to places in Seoul where have great school districts and short commute time to Gangnam. The koraen govt is accelerating them to sell their mid priced properties around the peninsula and combine all the sales money to buy and invest in Gangnam regions. They have allowed 1 property owner not to pay further property ownership taxes despite the land in Gangnam 10 times more expensive compared to surrounding regions. Mainly Gangnam regions are the great school districts and have 10 times their property more expensive compared to average Gyeonggi-do housing prices. ALso Please review us of Koreans 1st and 2nd and 3rd and 4th brand new cities.
As a S. Korean, I will tell you my personal opinion. The most serious problem is that the vested political interests under the two-party system are intentionally causing a real estate bubble in the Seoul-Gyeonggi metropolitan area and causing corruption. This is a problem for both parties.
Korean politicians (under the two-party system) are not interested in the economic crisis of their own country.
Even if there is, they think it is not their business. They maintain their economic power through real estate corruption.
They are only interested in corruption and their own power.
They do not compete with policies or the economy. They compete by disparaging the opposing party.
한국정도면 부패없는거지
어휴 다른 부패 심한 나라 살아봐야 정신차리지 ㅉ
물론 정치는 고치긴해야함
보수정부때는 부동산 침체기라 빚내서 집사라며 온갖 부양책으로 집값 떠받들었고
진보정부때는 경기회복해서 금리인상되면 집값 하락한다고 집사지 말라고 했는데도
영끌 선동에 온갖 규제책을 씹어먹을 정도로 시장이 과민반응한거고
이런 차이도 모르는 것들의 어리석은 선택이야말로 한국의 가장 심각한 문제지!
It would have been much better with more clear speaking commentator because I couldn’t hear a half of what he is saying.
Hi-Yoon-Die ????
Script written by Korean and spoken by Aussie?
All the major metropolitan centres around the globe are facing a similar crisis. Ranging from misgovernance, rampant corruption, economic inequalities and poor basic services. Traffic congestion, pollution and encroachments are just an extension to that.
50km from your sworn enemy… … get out of there
Just some comments on pronunciations. Most were right--even Jeonse. 😃 Hyundai is pronounced more like Hyun-day (like Sunday). Daewoo is pronounced like Day-oo. Really great comprehensive video. Gyeonggi in Gyeonggi Province uses a glottal G, as in "girl" and it pronounced like Gyung-ghee.
Seoul has many metro lines, I hope they were addressed a bit more here
As a korean, to say about panjachon, the Seoul Metropolitan Government provides permanent rental apartments to residents of Pajajachon, but residents of shantytown refuse it. Because it costs over 100 million won per 3.3 square meters. Most of the residents who were forced to go to Guryong Village during the military regime in the past have already moved to other places or get new apartments the city provides, and the remaining people are people who have built unauthorized buildings on other people's land and live thereafter, dreaming of redevelopment. In fact, if you go to Guryong Village, you can see Tesla and Genesis cars parked. It is a symbol of the gap between the rich and the poor to foreigners, but it is actually the result of selfishness.
As non-seoulian korean, I can agree
I love living in Seoul
I dont see any chaos
The music at 5:10 is so unserious lmao
I am Korean and live in Seoul. This video is amazing-how did you make it? I think even Koreans couldn't make a better one.
Me watching this video while my train pulls into Seoul Station:
London, New York, Tokyo only need 11 years to buy houseÉ no way man.. YOu probably have not been to New York, Toronto, SF.. its worse i terms of price to income ratio.
That statistic is not saying it takes 11 years on average to boy a home, its saying that it would take 11 years if you put every single cent into buying a home. That is not a realistic thing to do, but the statistic is just a way to combine and compare the two stats
This clip is quite accurate, though using 'chaotic' as a descriptor gives a sense of exaggeration. As a breadwinner of a middle-income family in mid-40s, I still cannot imagine myself being a houseowner. Also, double-check the name of the incumbent Korean president.
19:01 Hold on, you missed 'l' in the President's name.
His name is Yoon Suk-Yeol.
(And no, dispite he said something about that, the so-called 'conservative' party of the Korea would never support moving the capital. There even was decision of Consititution Court that the 'moving of the capitol is unconstitutional' because 'it was written in the law of the Joseon dynasty' (written in 1485, which, as you might expect, has no other meaning other than historical in nowadays). Why? Well, you know, what was the video all about? The rent.)
(Then what he said? He just said he might move his office to Sejong, dispite it might not happen at all in his term, and is said just before the general election.)
gyeonggi = jong ji? what a lol
lmao
Top 5 baby
Somebody has never heard of Busan. Want more chaos? See nowhere Busan is there.
Good video overall. One minor point: the word "exodus" is pronounced with the accent on the first syllable not the second... EX odus. You're welcome!
Good overview, well done.
Do we know the music at 0:35 it goes harddd
I really don't see Seoul as chaotic tbh
I’m from the UK but used to live in Seoul and found it so stressful!
Seoul is a stressful city
Nah it has everything fun and peace
Nah it has both fun and peace
bro seoul is so fun 😃
I would be stressed out too if i didnt speak english and living in UK too LOL
did the title change? or am i trippin?
He did
4:56 What's with the music my dude? Feels like I am running from the cops in night city.
I don’t even get why Seoul is so close to North Korea. Usually the main city of a country will be located near a coast but Seoul…. Is more near north Korea. I tried to find a subway station but ended up finding a bomb shelter instead.
이와 관련해서 부산도 다루면 재밌을 것 같아요.
As a seoulian for my entire life, i really hate seoul. Ive been many big cities, including tokyo, newyork, london, paris. There's no such any other cities like seoul. Seoul is very congested, and all buildings are unified. There is no unique distincition. It's just republic of concrete😅
The new city sejong
if seoul is chaotic cant wait for you to do jakarta :)
아 이렇게 밖에서 뼈때리니까 더 아프네
이제는 정말로 인구 분산 정책을 적극적으로 실시해야할 때가 왔습니다.
지나친 인구 밀집으로 발생하는 부작용들이 너무 많았으며, 이로 인해 수많은 이들이 희생당해왔습니다.
We confronted the time that must enforce intensive population decentralization policies.
Excessive dense population has caused many side effect and many people have been sacrificed by this side effects.
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. 😳
"Why Seoul is the perfect example of a chaotic city"
Bro, you've forgot Mumbai, Bangkok, Jakarta, and Manila! Sucks at every level, especially the 1st and the last ones lol (chaotic is even an understatement)
And you think Seoul is 'that chaotic'.....
If Seoul is chaotic, what then do you call of Manila? Chaos itself🤔
진짜 잘 정리했다. 한국인이지만 처음 알았네..😮😮
DARK SEOULS
"Haiyundai"
19:00 It should be President Yoon Suk Yeol, not Yoon Suk Yeo.
Still better than Bishkek, here avg family could buy house in 230 years if they will not spend money on food, housing, education etc.
if i want to buy house here I need to start business
12:59 lmao
Many koreans regard Korea as the Republic of Seoul 😅
love the intro style
Any content about SK on yt seems to immediately attract tankies and weebs
And jealous indians and westerners
@@smartwater598I find these "jealous" people to be mostly southeast asian for some reason. Westerners have no reason to be jealous and Indians probably don't care. Chinese/Japanese relations are just mutual disliking or rivalry, not the deformed inferiority complex that sea people have
I'm in Seoul right now. Been here for about a month so far.
I'm not a fan, I have to admit. Huge traffic issues, and I do mean huge, during rush hour (which lasts several hours), and public transportation takes 2-3 times as long as you would think it does.
I'm not gonna get into the culture and such - have a look at the comments and see how Koreans react to that.
I'm just saying that from an infrastructure POV, while the city "works", it could be infinitely better. Big fan of some of the fancy architecture here though.
where in Seoul do you live that public transit takes 2-3x longer than expected? I've been here for 5 years and the public transit is my favorite part of the country. The subways especially are the best in the world as far as I'm concerned.