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superdave · Joined: 20 Aug 2006 Location: over there ----->

I've seen homeless people around Seoul Station and in the subway, but where are the slums? the real slums??

It's gonna sound crass, but as a photographer I'd like to get both sides of korean life. I've got hundreds of beautiful shots of statues and buddhas and hanboks ...

I want to see people living under bridges. I want to see cardboard box houses.

Where's the best place to go?

billybrobby · Joined: 09 Dec 2004

to me, Seoul station has the most homeless. If you're looking for, say, a neighborhood full of buildings in which homeless people live, I think it'd be hard to find, right?

If you want human pathos, there's always legless guys around Kangnam station or in Namdaemun.

gang ah jee · Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Location: city of paper

As I recall Seoul's last shanty town in Sillim was bulldozed back in 2002. Outside places like Seoul Station and the Chongno and Euljiro jihados, I think you'll have to leave Seoul to find real poverty.

edit: Here is an excellent blog that has information on the Sillim shanty town on it somewhere, though you'll have to search around on it. hunjangui karuchim

Zyzyfer · Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 9:16 pm Post subject:

Captain Corea · Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Location: Seoul

There's a commune growing under Younsan station you can check out.

Also, don't write off Seoul Station, look around there and you'll see lot's of sleeping places.

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

The typical place for homeless peopel to live are those vinyl greenhouse shelters you see all over the place. There has been a serious crackdown on places where they can stay lately.

bobbyhanlon · Joined: 09 Nov 2003 Location: 서울

i think this is the one you're looking for-
http://hunjang.blogspot.com/2004/04/nangok-photography-exhibition-and-my.html

also there's a lot of homeless people around yeongdeungpo. there are many sleeping in 영등포역 at night.

JeJuJitsu · Joined: 11 Sep 2005 Location: McDonald's

jinju · Joined: 22 Jan 2006

Well David,

wanna go check out Sillim dong together? Im always looking for old places, not necessarily povery stricken but the kinds of places that are disappearing from seoul, or maybe have already disappeared.

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

There are a lot of lower rent buildings that are being demolished by large construction companies to make way for more high rises. All of Seoul is built on that. After the gangsters chase all the tenants away it's interesting to explore them.

Yeolchae · Joined: 24 Aug 2006

A lot of them stick together at nighttime in the underpass at the north side of the old Seoul Station.

I went under there a while ago and there were about 60 homeless people getting ready to go to bed.

The smell was horrible with that many in such a small area.

I didn't feel unsafe or threatened at all though.

I wouldn't feel the same way if I walked through the middle of 60 homeless people in New York.

Neil · Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Location: Tokyo

Suwon station has load of homeless people in and around it at night.