Seoul City Hall
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Seoul City Hall is a governmental building for Seoul Metropolitan Government of South Korea in charge of administrative affairs of Seoul. It is located in Taepyeongno, Jung-gu, the heart of Seoul. It's located next to City Hall Station (Seoul) on Seoul Subway Line 1. In front of the city hall, there is Seoul Plaza (Korean: 서울광장).
The Building was built by the Japanese occupation government in 1926. After liberation from Japan, it has been served for seoul metropolitan government. City Hall had been extended for 6 times. The Main Building was designated as an registered cultural property of Republic of Korea. the north building built in 1962 and the new building built in 1986 were abolished in 2006 due to construct new city hall.
A large digital clock for the building was installed in 1975, and replaced with large analogue clock when Lee Myung-bak (the present president of South Korea) was mayor of Seoul.
There was a competition for The new Seoul City Hall. The jury awarded a prize to Yoo Kerl (유걸) in February 18, 2008. Yoo Kerl said "Major keywords for designing the new building are traditions, citizens, future. I analysed low-rise horizontal elements, curvaceousness and shads of eaves of our traditional architecture style's characters, and I applied these to the design so I can recall comfortable feelings of old things."[1]
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- ^ "‘7수 끝에…’ 서울시 새청사 최종설계안 발표", The Hankyoreh, 2008-02-19. Retrieved on 2008-04-30. "30% 문화공간 이용 다음달 기초공사 시작"
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