Korean Apartments: Why Half the Country Lives in Towers

Rows of identical high-rise residential towers seen from below

Fly into Incheon, take the train toward Seoul, and you will pass them for forty minutes without a break — identical towers in blocks of eight or twelve, numbered in enormous digits on their sides, repeating across the landscape. Visitors often read this as bleak. Korean apartments house roughly half the country’s population, and the … Read more