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Korea frequently tries to decentralize and build new districts and cities from scratch.It just does not work because of korean culture.

thriftwy 5y ago
It does not work anywhere in the world. Business and people are quite content with "old" districts and cities.
- mathverse 5y ago
  It's not that.It's the korean approach of doing things.The "bbali bbali" culture where korean ingenuity gets pushed back by their impatience and the need to re-invent themselves very quick. They like to designate certain areas to specific industries and then wonder why it's not such a good approach. Look at Songdo or Pangyo Techno Valley.Both rushed and without much thought. As soon as the gov subsidies ran out the companies wanted to move back because it was both as expensive as in Seoul downtown with little of other benefit. Also 99% of the companies there were korean anyway.
imtringued 5y ago
I am wondering if a super super block model would work. You take a 3x3 block of houses and label it a super block. Then you build a 5x5 block of super blocks and then put commercial zoning in the middle.
- mathverse 5y ago
  It's not about building it.It's about having a plan what to do with it.Koreans are incredible and efficient builders. Korean culture favors one time hit wonders instead of gradual development and continuous improvements.It's the nature of korean culture to just try new things because that is deemed to be better than trying to go with existing ones. So you build a city and just because you built it you expect everyone to just go there.And it has to succeed or it is deemed to be an irrepairable failure. Koreans dream of grandiose big projects that will put them on the world stage like Chaebols once did and they dont see the local opportunities or challenges.
- thriftwy 5y ago
  I'm not sure that South Korea has a single flat area to put 5x5 block of super blocks. The landscape is very rugged. Also, putting any number of buildings in the middle of nowhere is not solving any issues. And near Seoul there's no land.

thriftwy 5y ago

It does not work anywhere in the world. Business and people are quite content with "old" districts and cities.

mathverse 5y ago
It's not that.It's the korean approach of doing things.The "bbali bbali" culture where korean ingenuity gets pushed back by their impatience and the need to re-invent themselves very quick. They like to designate certain areas to specific industries and then wonder why it's not such a good approach. Look at Songdo or Pangyo Techno Valley.Both rushed and without much thought. As soon as the gov subsidies ran out the companies wanted to move back because it was both as expensive as in Seoul downtown with little of other benefit. Also 99% of the companies there were korean anyway.

imtringued 5y ago

I am wondering if a super super block model would work. You take a 3x3 block of houses and label it a super block. Then you build a 5x5 block of super blocks and then put commercial zoning in the middle.

mathverse 5y ago
It's not about building it.It's about having a plan what to do with it.Koreans are incredible and efficient builders. Korean culture favors one time hit wonders instead of gradual development and continuous improvements.It's the nature of korean culture to just try new things because that is deemed to be better than trying to go with existing ones. So you build a city and just because you built it you expect everyone to just go there.And it has to succeed or it is deemed to be an irrepairable failure. Koreans dream of grandiose big projects that will put them on the world stage like Chaebols once did and they dont see the local opportunities or challenges.
thriftwy 5y ago
I'm not sure that South Korea has a single flat area to put 5x5 block of super blocks. The landscape is very rugged. Also, putting any number of buildings in the middle of nowhere is not solving any issues. And near Seoul there's no land.