Architecture

Kim Swoo-geun

1931–1986Local figure

Kim Swoo-geun

Addresses you can still visit

Every place in this city with a documented tie to this person.

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    ARKO Arts Theater

    The influential Korean architect designed the red-brick cultural complex that became a symbol of Daehangno.

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    Freedom Center

    Kim Swoo-geun designed the Freedom Center as one of his earliest monumental works.

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    National Museum of Korean Democracy

    Kim Swoo-geun designed the former interrogation office, including its narrow windows and controlled internal circulation.

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    Sewoon Sangga

    He designed the Sewoon Sangga megastructure erected across the cleared urban strip in the 1960s.

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