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[Fishead soup]

Why do they create such digustingly pathetic places of worship and in the same building as the spinning barber pole. They have destroyed the Seoul skyline. Yet another monstrosity and name it" The Church Jesus Wants.

Don't they have any sense of aesthetics?

[seoulsucker]

[Fishead soup]

[IncognitoHFX]

[Illysook]

There are plenty of ugly storefront churches blighting the urban landscape of America, many of which serve as drop in centers for the unfortunate souls who live on the streets in such areas...which kind of makes them beautiful and brings to mind one of my favorite artists, George Bellows. He was from my hometown and he was a member of the ashcan school.

[RACETRAITOR]

More likely the churches come first, and the rub n' tugs come next.

Anyway, Christians may not have it, but Catholics have designed some magnificent buildings here.

[egrog1717]

My favorite ugly Church in Seoul thus far has to be the glass monstrocity near the back-side of Olympic Park... Think 17th century castle meets 21st century Korean Sparkling!

[travelingfool]

Those neon crosses are kind of creepy.

[PeterDragon]

To jump in on the Korean-hate here (good naturedly mind yo, as I like this country for the most part)--- I'm amazed at how many Koreans think their Christian "scene" is so novel and unique, which on a global scale it really isn't. I remember at my first gig--- an awful hagon--- my director took me and my co-workers sightseeing in Seoul acting as our tour guide to-all0things--uniquely Korean. "Look!" she said enthusiatically pointing to a random building. "It's a church!" To which one of my co-workers then coutntered--- pointing wildly in many directions--- "And look! A bus! And a tree! And is that a sidewalk?! I've heard of those!"

[ciccone_youth]

[jkelly80]

I think Myeong Dong Cathedral is very nice.

[Privateer]

Mosques in England are also pretty ugly. I assume it's a money issue, as maybe here too. At least Muslims in Britain don't use neon tho'!

[Pojogae]

I love the red neon crosses seen at night through a blur of pollution. Creepy yes, but also kind of unique. I also think the cheap spires rising from pre-fab construction wonderfully idiosyncratic. Individually the architectural qualities of Seoul buildings are pretty bad, I think, but if you climb Namsan with a couple of bottles of Soju, arse them both quickly, then squinting try to view the whole thing as a unity of geometric rhythms and crackling energy it's all pretty interesting, and certainly different from the landscape you knew at home - which is why y'all came over here, right?

[nomad-ish]

[Captain Corea]