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01 August 2024

Plans Underway for 19-Story High-Rise in Seoul to Reposition Bank Branch

A current five-story building located in the middle of Seoul will be reborn as a representative complex financial center of Woori Finance.  The building will...

10 July 2024

Seoul Government Abandons 100+ Story Building Proposal

The Seoul Metropolitan Government has decided to abandon its plan to build a skyscraper that was planned to be over 100 stories tall as part...

04 June 2024

Landscaped Skyscraper is Winning Proposal in Seoul Design Competition

As part of the Seoul City Urban/Architecture Creation/Innovation Design Project contest, J. Mayer H. Architecture has been chosen for its design of the Cheongdam Tower...

16 May 2024

Groundbreaking Ceremony in Seoul for New IT Headquarters

CTBUH has confirmed that the new headquarters for a South Korean IT company,  located in the Seongsu district of Seoul, recently had a groundbreaking cermony...

08 February 2024

Seoul's Yongsan District Will Permit a 100-Story Skyscraper

The Seoul government said on Monday, 5 February 2024, that it has finalized the Yongsan International Business District plans to transform the 500,000-square-meter site into...

30 October 2023

Building With Garden Terrace Proposed in Seoul

In Seoul, South Korea, ODA recently won the Creative Innovation Architecture Design Pilot Project competition with a proposed mixed-use tower that seamlessly integrates greenery and...

06 July 2023

New HD Hyundai Global R&D Center in South Korea

The new HD Hyundai Global R&D Center (GRC) in South Korea’s Seongnam Gyeonggi Province is located approximately 30 miles outside of Seoul, the nation’s capital...

12 April 2023

Massive Ferris Wheel to be Constructed in Seoul

The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) announced that it will be building what could be the world's largest Ferris wheel at Haneul Park. Called Seoul Ring,...

27 September 2022

Major Department Store’s Gwangbok Branch Granted One-Year Operation Permit in Busan

Lotte Department Store’s Gwangbok branch in Busan will be able to stay open for another year after its operation permit was extended because the company...

17 August 2022

New Plan in South Korea to Supply 2.7 million New Homes in 5 Years

On 16 August 2022, the government of South Korea announced that they will supply 2.7 million new homes in the next five years by easing...