Back Then · 100 photographs
Suwon & Gwanggyo, back then
Waiting for a bus outside the station, walking through a market, gathering in a schoolyard. Follow the streets from Suwon Station and Ingye-dong to neighborhoods around the city walls and the old villages of Gwanggyo.
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A day begins at Suwon Station
The low station building, the forecourt, Suin Line trains and surrounding streets. Photographs from different years show a place where people and transport came together.
Broad lanes near Suwon Interchange
This 1969 photograph records the roadside near Suwon Interchange. A few cars travel along broad lanes, with large white road markings and lamps stretching into the distance. Low ground beside the road and a long median reveal the scale of the space set aside for traffic.
Suwon Station plaza, past and present
In 1971, buses and other vehicles stand at intervals beside low buildings. The 2000 photograph shows road markings around the plaza and long lines of traffic. The same station forecourt is seen from different directions and heights.
Present means the later date in this pair, rather than the scene today.
The station square before its fountain
This is the square in front of Suwon Station before construction in 1971. Low shop buildings line the far side of the broad road, with people standing or walking beside buses and cars. The station frontage connects rail travel with local shops and bus journeys.
Traffic converges outside Suwon Station
This elevated view looks across Suwon Station in 2000. Cars and buses form long lines in front of the low station building, beside construction barriers and excavators. The curved edge of the plaza and streams of traffic show how the station connected several busy urban routes.
Laying paving blocks by hand
Paving work is under way outside Suwon Station in 1972. A crouching worker aligns square blocks while people in hats and boots move earth behind him. The photograph reveals the many hands involved in making an everyday walking surface.
Buses crossing paths at the old terminal
Buses and cars crowd the roads around Suwon’s terminal in 1988. The buses point in several directions, with buildings standing close against their routes. Travel out of town is woven directly into the neighborhood street network.
A Suin Line train before departure
A Suin Line train waits to depart from Suwon Station in June 1994. Round lamps, a narrow doorway and the carriage above the rails fill the vertical frame. A person sitting at the end of the train brings the view close to the small spaces around the carriage.
Windows above a Suwon–Songdo sign
A Suwon–Songdo destination sign is attached to the side of a Suin Line carriage in June 1994. Passengers can be seen through the window frames, mixed with reflections from outside. The close view records the people using the service as well as the route written on the train.
A crossing near Suwon Station
A train crosses a road near Suwon Station in October 1995. Low buildings and utility poles stand beyond the carriages, while a person waits at the edge of the road. The meeting of rails and road at the same level records how movement was organized around the station.
People beneath the Suwon Station sign
The entrance to Suwon Station in April 2000 carries the station name in Korean and English. People carrying bags pass beneath the ticket-office sign, with public telephone booths to the right. The low canopy and pavement immediately outside bring the experience of entering this station into close view.
Waiting for a bus beside Suwon Station
People form a long line at a bus stop near Suwon Station in 2002. A bus stands beside passengers carrying bags, while the pavement between a wall and roadside trees serves as their waiting area. The photograph records the pause between train travel and onward movement by bus.
A daytime alley opposite Suwon Station
This photograph records a daytime alley in the red-light district opposite Suwon Station in January 2005. Small signs crowd the building fronts, while wires and a banner designating a youth protection zone cross the street. Doorways immediately beside the narrow traffic lane show the physical layout of the district at that time.
Suwon Station’s concourse beneath high windows
Light enters Suwon Station through a long band of upper windows in 2012. People cross the broad floor while others wait on seats at either side, below a row of shops on the upper level. Movement, waiting and shopping occupy different levels within the same station space.
Paldalmun, market lanes and Ingye-dong
Between shopfronts and signs
From narrow market aisles to broad intersections, goods on display, shop signs, vehicles and pedestrians offer a closer look at city life.
The archive gives 1960-01-01 as the production date; only the year is shown here.
A fabric shop in Yeongdong Market
This view of Hwacheon Sanghoe in Yeongdong Market is dated 1960 in the archive. Fabric fills shelves almost to the ceiling, with folded cloth spread across the shopfront. People seated among the goods and a large sign in Chinese characters give the small shop its distinctive appearance.
Streets by Paldalmun, past and present
In 1969, cyclists, pedestrians and vehicles share the road toward Paldalmun. In 1993, people crossing beneath traffic lights fill the foreground. The viewpoints differ, but the gate and surrounding shops form the setting for everyday movement.
Present means the later date in this pair, rather than the scene today.
A street looking toward the south gate
A city gate stands at the end of Nammun Street in this 1969 photograph. Bicycles, cars and people crossing on foot share the scene, framed by shop signs and overhead wires. The gate also serves as a visible landmark within an ordinary route through town.
Crossing the street by the South Gate
People cross the road in front of the South Gate in 1993. Pedestrians in coats and jackets pass a waiting car, with shop signs covering several floors of the buildings behind them. Gate, shops, roadway and pavement share the scene, showing a historic landmark within a working city center.
A market lane beneath awnings
This photograph records shops beside Suwoncheon in 1972. Vegetables and bowls line both sides of a narrow passage covered with awnings, while adults and children move between the goods. The space for displaying merchandise meets the space for walking with almost no gap.
Earthenware stacked beside the stream
Large and small earthenware jars are stacked high outside a shop beside Suwoncheon in 1972. Earth and stones are exposed below the posts supporting the display, with a narrow channel of water beneath. The shop has extended the space for selling household goods right to the stream edge.
The original title explicitly gives 6 July 1976.
Buses and trucks around a city gate
Buses and trucks circle a city gate in Suwon in 1976. A curved defensive wall and stone steps occupy the center, closely surrounded by roads and shop buildings. The old gate stands directly within the flow of everyday traffic.
The original title explicitly gives 25 August 1976.
A shopping basket at the checkout
This is the checkout at Suwon’s Clover store in 1976. A button-operated register stands beside a basket of goods, and a handwritten price notice hangs on a pillar. A routine moment of paying for shopping preserves the store’s equipment and display arrangements.
A runner and the roadside crowd
A runner passes through Suwon during the Gyeongho relay marathon in 1982. Behind the athlete, people lined up outside the shops watch, with a car standing at the roadside. An ordinary shopping-street pavement briefly becomes a place to follow a race.
A bus beside the fortress wall
Roads run close to the fortress wall in this 1993 view of the Hwahongmun area. A bus and cars pass below, while low roofs and multistory buildings continue beyond the wall. The fortress appears within the everyday fabric of traffic and buildings rather than as an isolated monument.
Low-rise shops around an intersection
This elevated view looks onto an intersection in Suwon’s old center in 1999. Low-rise corner buildings carry signs on several floors, above pedestrian crossings and vehicles. Building heights and road widths together reveal the arrangement of the streetscape.
A passage between fish stalls
Long displays of fish line this seafood-market passage in the Nammun and Yeongdong market area in 1999. Electric bulbs hang below low awnings, while people pass between boxes and basins. The scene records how food displays and pedestrian movement share a narrow market aisle.
A market lane filled with clothes and shoppers
Clothing racks and displays reach into a market lane around Nammun and Yeongdong markets in 1999. People move through the remaining passage beneath overlapping signs and awnings. The view captures the close interweaving of trading space and walking space in the market.
Signs and parked vehicles along a side street
Vans and cars line the edges of a side street in central Suwon in 1999. Vertical signs hang from buildings of different heights, and utility wires cross the narrow strip of sky. The photograph records the scale and working environment of a commercial lane away from the main road.
Na Hye-seok Street, past and present
A large banner bearing Na Hye-seok’s name and slender street trees appear in 2000. In 2007, the pedestrian space includes a sculpture, benches, more shop signs and people resting. Side by side, the photographs also allow a comparison of paving and street furniture.
Present means the later date in this pair, rather than the scene today.
Na Hye-seok Street beneath its banner
A large banner introducing Na Hye-seok spans her namesake street in February 2000. Shops, planters and supports for young trees line paving laid in contrasting colors. A broad pedestrian space, separate from the roadway, forms the center of the street.
Benches and signs on Na Hye-seok Street
People sit on low seats along both sides of Na Hye-seok Street in 2007. The walkway stretches beyond the statue, enclosed by shop entrances and signs on taller buildings. Compared with the small trees and exposed paving in the 2000 photograph, this view shows changes in shade and places to pause.
Display stalls at a Yeongdong Market junction
This photograph looks down on a junction in the Yeongdong Market area in 2000. Displays of clothing and household goods extend toward the street beneath the Simin Department Store sign, with pedestrians moving between them. The elevated view reveals how indoor shops, outdoor displays and walking routes fitted closely together.
Summer play in the middle of the street
Children play among the ground-level fountains on Na Hye-seok Street in summer 2001. They walk and run between the jets, with shops and a statue extending into the background. Part of a street used for walking and shopping has become a place for children to spend a summer afternoon.
At a vegetable stall in Jidong Market
A vendor sorts vegetables and bags at Jidong Market in 2010. Baskets hold leafy greens and spring onions, with scales and bowls placed among the displays. Goods arranged close to the ground and tools within easy reach reveal the stall’s working space in detail.
Small outdoor tables at Maehyang Tongdak
People gather around small tables outside Maehyang Tongdak near Maehyang Bridge in 2012. Blue stools sit beneath a red sign and awning, while light from the interior reaches the pavement. The photograph shows a food street beside Suwoncheon where restaurant activity extends beyond the doorway.
Lanes and waterways around the city walls
Everyday places beyond the main road
Homes, lanes, streams and bridges: spaces people shared. Small traces of daily life also reveal how familiar neighborhoods changed.
Working beside Suwoncheon
This is a construction site on Suwoncheon in 1969. A pump and thick hose sit beside piles of earth and stone, while people work near the buildings behind them. The scene places river works immediately alongside the spaces where the neighborhood lived.
The date comes from a 1970 album covering several locations.
Factory buildings and open ground
This factory view appears in an album documenting several Suwon facilities in 1970. Long buildings and a chimney stand behind broad open ground, while small entrance buildings provide a sense of scale. It shows a space for production quite different from the crowded shopping lanes elsewhere in town.
A hillside lane in Ingye-dong
This view looks down the hillside lane by the Ingye-dong office in 1972. Someone pushes a bicycle along the uneven road while pedestrians pass between a high retaining wall and low houses. The neighborhood descending below conveys the scale and texture of a narrow hillside route.
Working together below Maegyo Bridge
People clean Suwoncheon near Maegyo Bridge in 1972. They are spread across the slope and water edge, scraping the ground or moving earth with long tools. Their bent backs and varied working postures convey how much manual effort the stream required.
A main road among the rooftops
This elevated view looks across Suwon in 1978. Tiled roofs, flat rooftops and taller buildings mingle around a straight road stretching into the distance. Closely packed low-rise neighborhoods and larger buildings form a continuous urban scene.
Neighborhood shops below the apartments
This 1979 photograph brings a Suwon apartment complex and its shops into one view. Low storefronts run beneath numbered residential blocks, with flags beside steps and a retaining wall. The close arrangement of homes and shops suggests the short everyday routes within the complex.
Hwahongmun, past and present
Both the 1982 and 1993 photographs show a pavilion standing over stone arches. The earlier view includes more of the surrounding masonry, while the later view moves closer to the water passing through the gate. The pair offers different distances from the enduring structure and waterway.
Present means the later date in this pair, rather than the scene today.
Water beneath seven arches
This 1982 photograph shows Hwahongmun’s pavilion and seven arched water gates. Water passes beneath the stone structure and over a low drop, with steps and access to the stream at either side. It reveals both the building’s form and the way it spans the watercourse.
Water passing beneath Hwahongmun
A row of arched water gates supports Hwahongmun in 1993. Water spreads toward the foreground over a low drop, while the pavilion above adds a contrasting roofline to the stone structure. The photograph shows the close connection between the city’s waterway and its fortress.
Holding the fire hose together
People spray water during a fire-safety event in Suwon in 1984. They hold a hose leading from a fire engine as a jet of water and white spray fill the space beside a building. The record identifies a safety event, so the scene should not be mistaken for evidence of an actual fire.
The source records the year only; the month and day are not specified.
The new City Hall in Ingye-dong
This record shows the new Suwon City Hall in Ingye-dong in 1987. A fence and road cross the front of the building’s long horizontal windows, with banners and small trees near the entrance. The view records the scale of the public building together with its street setting.
A city truck on duty
This photograph records a Suwon municipal tax-enforcement vehicle in 1987. Official-duty markings appear on the doors, and large lettering on the load bed identifies its purpose. The extended cabin and open bed show a working vehicle designed to carry people as well as goods.
A street arch announcing a move
An arch over a road announces the Gyeonggi police bureau’s move to Suwon in 1987. Beyond it are a gently curving street, low buildings and people walking. The photograph preserves the use of large lettering and a temporary street structure to announce an institutional move.
Working together beside the road
People gather in a circle during roadside planting in 1988. Wearing hats and gloves, they share seedlings and reach toward the ground, with shops and low buildings behind them. The photograph centers on the shared work of tending the neighborhood roadside rather than on the plants alone.
The stands before a game
This 1989 view looks into a field from the stands at Suwon Sports Complex. Blue stepped seating, grass and protective fencing form layers beneath tall floodlight towers. Even without a game under way, the facilities convey their capacity to receive a large crowd.
The Civic Hall beside the hillside
This elevated view shows Suwon Civic Hall in 1989. A white building connects with a broad-roofed hall, fronted by parking spaces and steps to the entrance. The public gathering place sits between the hillside and the built-up city.
The crossing outside the arts center
This view looks across the road toward the Gyeonggi arts center in Ingye-dong in 1990. Cars and trucks line up beyond a broad pedestrian crossing, with the center’s large roof behind them. The photograph records the scale of the surrounding roads and traffic as well as the cultural building.
Open ground in a planned housing district
This 1990 photograph records land designated for housing development in Gwonseon-gu. Beyond the disturbed ground stand the tall nets of a driving range and existing buildings. Open development land and established facilities share the frame, showing a district in transition.
Building an agricultural and fishery center
An unfinished long building stands at the Suwon agricultural and fishery center construction site in 1992. Steel members extend across the foreground, with bricks and other materials piled on the ground. Before the buildings became places for trade, the photograph records the work of forming their structure.
A city of roofs at different heights
Low houses and larger buildings are tightly interwoven in this elevated view of Suwon in 1993. Behind a red-brick building and a pointed spire, residential streets and apartment blocks extend toward the distant hills. Their different sizes and roof forms reveal layers of built space within the city.
A summer gathering in Suwoncheon
Children with inflatable rings and others standing in the water gather in Suwoncheon in the summer of 1997. They splash beside water flowing over a low weir, with roads and buildings visible above both banks. The close view records the stream being used as a place to play within the city.
Tall buildings at Nonghyeop Intersection
A broad road stretches between tall buildings at Nonghyeop Intersection in Ingye-dong in January 1999. Cars occupy the lanes in front, and shop signs line the lower floors of the buildings. Traffic and commercial frontage together show the scale of this part of Ingye-dong.
Small sleds on the frozen Suwoncheon
Children ride small wooden sleds on Suwoncheon in January 1999. Holding sticks in both hands, they push against the ice while crouching in thick jackets and scarves. The frozen surface becomes a place for winter play, preserving details of both equipment and clothing.
Garden plots on open land in Yeongtong
A sign for family garden plots stands on open land in Yeongtong in 1999. People are scattered across the cultivated ground, with houses and larger buildings in the distance. The photograph shows an open urban site being used as a place where residents could work with the soil.
Yeongtong Library across the road
Yeongtong Library appears in 1999 with broad steps and a conspicuous curved metal structure above its facade. Rows of windows and young roadside trees follow the building’s frontage. The photograph adds a neighborhood public facility and its street setting to the record of residential life.
The colors and shapes of Yeongtong’s incinerator
Yeongtong’s waste incinerator appears in 1999 with a tall chimney and geometric panels of color. A long glass-covered structure stands in front, beside roads and street fixtures. Its visible exterior records part of the infrastructure supporting everyday life in the surrounding residential district.
Children and fishing rods beside the stream
Children gather beside Suwoncheon in March 2000. Several extend long fishing rods toward the water, while one crouches on a rock to look into it. With the high embankment and road just behind them, the stream serves as a place for neighborhood children to spend time.
Painting color onto Suwoncheon’s stone wall
People paint the stone embankment beside Suwoncheon in Yeonmu-dong in 2000. The person in front holds a paint can while covering a stone face in yellow, with others working farther along. Cloths and tools at the base of the wall reveal the labor behind the finished mural.
Sleds on frozen Suwoncheon
Children ride small sleds on Suwoncheon in Maegyo-dong in January 2001. They push against the ice with short sticks held in both hands, with more sleds following behind. Between snow-covered banks and surrounding buildings, the watercourse has become a winter play space.
An apartment road beside cultivated ground
This view was taken at a proposed road site in Yeongtong in 2001. Cultivated ground and temporary structures remain in front of rows of apartment blocks and a road filled with cars, beneath overhead wires. A large residential district meets adjoining land that has not yet taken the same urban form.
Suwoncheon at Namsumun, past and present
In 2001, shops and parasols line the banks and stones are exposed in the streambed. In 2012, Namsumun spans the same channel, with defined paths on both sides. The multistory building on the left and church spire on the right connect the two views.
Present means the later date in this pair, rather than the scene today.
The watercourse before Namsumun returned
This 2001 view from Yeongdong Bridge looks along Suwoncheon toward the former Namsumun site. Water flows between market buildings and awnings, beside concrete construction pieces and rough banks. Paired with the 2012 photograph, it shows a watergate and finished walking paths appearing between the same surrounding buildings.
A watergate and paths along Suwoncheon
In this June 2012 photograph, the restored Namsumun watergate spans Suwoncheon. Water passes beneath its arches, bordered by stone embankments and curved walking paths. The building on the left and the spire behind, also visible in the 2001 image, help locate changes to the watercourse and pedestrian space at the same site.
The source album covers Dongsuwon Intersection, Suwon Station and the Nonghyup intersection. This individual photograph’s exact location has not been established.
A stroller on a broad pavement
This 2002 record of a walkable street shows adults and children moving with a stroller. A broad pedestrian area extends between a large building’s columns, benches and planters. Set apart from traffic, it offers space for several people to walk alongside one another.
Sharing food during a neighborhood project
At a neighborhood project in Jidong in 2011, people portion bibimbap from large bowls into individual dishes. Mats and chairs sit beneath a tree, alongside a water container, ladles and stacks of bowls. A meal arranged with the wall-painting work has temporarily turned an outdoor neighborhood space into a shared table.
Classrooms, schoolyards and campus
Time spent learning and playing
Sitting at desks, gathering in schoolyards and moving around campus. These scenes connect childhood routines with the buildings of university life.
Children around a laboratory table
This is a practical science lesson at Namchang Primary School in 1964. Children lean toward a table covered with small bottles and equipment, watching the hands of the person in the center. The photograph shows a lesson built around observing something together at close range.
Only the year is documented; the precise waterside location is unknown.
Hands in shallow water
Two children playing in water appear in this 1964 Namchang school record. They bend down at the edge and dip their hands into the shallows as overlapping ripples spread around them. It is a close view of play outside the classroom, though the record does not identify the precise location.
School bread at the desks
These children appear in a 1973 record of bread and milk provision at Namchang Primary School. Seated at desks, they hold large pieces of bread in both hands, wearing shirts of different colors and patterns. The classroom becomes a place for eating together as well as learning.
Gathering for the hanging-ball game
Children play a hanging-ball breaking game at Namchang Primary School’s sports day in 1975. They gather below the suspended round target while spectators line the playground and slope. Play and cheering spread beyond the classroom to fill the school grounds.
The original title explicitly gives 21 August 1976.
A practical electrical skills test
Candidates take a practical electrician skills test at Suwon Technical High School in 1976. They handle wiring at workstations divided by wooden boards, with cable and tools at their feet and on the benches. Building a circuit by hand is at the center of the examination.
Two vaulting boxes on sports day
Children jump over vaulting boxes during Namchang School’s autumn sports day in 1991. Runners and spectators gather around two boxes placed side by side. The dirt field, strings of flags and sports clothes preserve the details of a school sports day.
A classroom on an open-school day
Children sit at desks while adults stand behind them on an open-school day at Namchang School in 1992. Open books, notebooks, a wall clock and displays beside the blackboard fill the room. The photograph records the classroom down to the different ways pupils look forward or turn toward one another.
A cleanup activity beyond the school gate
Children carry signs along a street during a neighborhood cleanup activity at Namchang School in 1992. Bright hats and jackets lead a line that continues into the distance. The activity extends from school into local streets bordered by steps and walls.
A fire extinguisher lesson at the blackboard
A fire extinguisher sits on the teacher’s desk during a fire-safety lesson at Namchang School in 1994. The lesson’s title is written across the blackboard, and an instructor stands beside the equipment. The scene records how practical safety education was brought into the classroom.
Low tables and cushions in an etiquette room
Low tables, tea dishes and cushions of several colors are arranged in Namchang School’s etiquette room in 1995. A decorative cabinet and lattice-style windows distinguish it from an ordinary classroom. The room was set up to practice everyday manners such as sitting and using tableware.
An experiment table at winter science camp
Children examine small pieces of equipment at a workbench during a winter science program in 1995. A pupil wearing glasses looks down at a tool while another leans toward the same spot. The scene records hands-on observation and materials rather than a lesson conducted only from books.
A food table at the school bazaar
People sit around long tables beneath a tent at Namchang School’s bazaar in 1996. Between bowls and food covers, hands reach to eat or pass food along. The photograph records the shared meals and exchanges that formed part of school life beyond lessons and sports.
Children gather around a globe model
Children gather around an apparatus with a globe and a red sphere during a Namchang School club activity in 1996. Some point toward the model while others bring their faces closer. The photograph shows several pupils sharing a single teaching aid for observation.
Kendo practice in a classroom
Two children wearing protective armor face each other during Namchang School’s kendo activity in 1997. Bamboo swords extend between them, while other pupils sit by the windows. With desks cleared away, the wooden classroom floor becomes a practice area.
A computer room lined with CRT monitors
Thick white monitors sit on each desk in Namchang School’s computer room in 1997. Children face the screens as daylight falls between the rows of equipment. The keyboards and monitor shapes record the material setting in which pupils encountered computers at school.
School broadcasting at the microphone
Two pupils sit behind a desk with a microphone in this 1997 photograph of Namchang School’s broadcasting station. Papers lie open on the desk, and an NBS sign hangs behind them. The photograph shows the place from which students delivered the broadcasts heard elsewhere in the school.
Making water rockets
Children at Namchang School make water rockets from plastic bottles and other materials spread across a desk in 1998. Hands hold bottles and reach for supplies among striped T-shirts and tools. Instead of displaying finished work, the photograph records the process of making something in a school science activity.
Files and monitors in the staffroom
Rows of brightly colored binders fill the desks of Namchang School’s staffroom in 1998. People sit or stand facing one another behind monitors and paper documents. The photograph records the objects and arrangement of the office space that supported daily school life.
Fitting parts together on Science Day
A child works with a construction kit during Science Day at Namchang Elementary School in 2000. Instructions and a box of parts lie open on the desk as colorful plates and connectors are fitted together by hand. The classroom desk has become a workbench for making and trying things out.
The humanities building at the University of Suwon
The humanities building at the University of Suwon in 2006. White columns and glass entrance doors stand above a broad flight of steps. The campus shop made this a place that was always bustling with students.
Shuttle buses lined up outside the physical education building
Shuttle buses stand in a row outside the University of Suwon’s physical education building in 2006. The buses share the same colours and line up along the parking markings. The bus ride from Suwon Station to the university took 30 minutes.
Villages, recreation and a new city
From villages to a new city
The waterside at Woncheon, villages around Gwanggyo and the construction sites that followed. Explore the changing settings of outings and everyday life.
Small boats on Woncheon waters
Small boats of several shapes are scattered across the water at Woncheon in 1972. Two people sit facing each other in the nearest boat, with pedal craft and a covered boat farther away. Moving across the water is itself the leisure activity in this scene.
Summer at Gwanggyo Pool
Gwanggyo Pool is busy both in the water and along its edge in the summer of 1972. Some people swim while others sit and rest beside them, with stepped seating and parasols behind. The image records an outdoor pool as a shared place for summer recreation.
The landing at Woncheon Recreation Area
Duck-shaped pedal boats and smaller craft are moored side by side at Woncheon Recreation Area in 1985. Restaurant signs and a large-roofed building rise behind the landing, with bicycles and visitors along the path. Boating, food and walking occupy adjoining spaces by the water.
Entering Woncheon Apartments
This is a route into Woncheon Apartments in 1988. A car passes below the tall residential blocks, alongside a pavement, young trees and entrance facilities. Rather than a distant skyline, the photograph follows the space used to come and go from home.
Walkers on the steps at Gwanggyosan
People fill the stone steps and walking path at the entrance to Gwanggyosan in 1999. Some carry backpacks, others walk lightly dressed, and a few sit beside the path. The scene centers on the ways visitors use the entrance for leisure on foot.
Stadium seating takes shape
The curving stands of Suwon World Cup Stadium are taking shape at the construction site in 1999. A large crane stands inside, surrounded by work areas and exposed earth. Existing buildings behind the site provide a measure of the scale of the new sports facility.
Cultivated land around Woncheon
Furrowed fields extend across the Iui-dong and Woncheon area in 2000. Low structures and plastic greenhouses stand among narrow paths and channels crossing the cultivated ground. The divisions of farmland, rather than large buildings, define this view of the area before development.
Boats and restaurants at Woncheon Recreation Area
Restaurants and boat landings sit close together beside the water at Woncheon Recreation Area in 2000. Small boats on the lake appear alongside roadside cars and large signs attached to the buildings. The scene brings boating, eating and outings by car together in one leisure destination.
Midsummer at Jumbo Pool
Visitors play in Jumbo Pool at Woncheon Recreation Area in August 2000. Pink and blue swim rings float on the water, while parasols and resting places line its edge. Swimming in the foreground and places to pause behind it reveal how the pool organized a summer outing.
People beside the bus to Gwanggyosan
A route 13 bus bearing a Gwanggyosan sign stands at the Kyonggi University entrance stop in 2001. People wearing hats and backpacks gather on the pavement as cars pass in the adjacent lane. The photograph shows a mountain outing beginning at an ordinary urban bus stop.
Where roads meet the village in Iui-dong
From the Small and Medium Business Center rooftop in 2004, broad roads and a low-rise village appear together in Iui-dong. Houses, greenhouses and fields surround a church, with apartment blocks farther away. Buildings of different scales and cultivated plots coexist within the same local area.
A cauldron and hearth in Soejukgol
A hearth supporting a large cauldron remains inside a house in Soejukgol, Iui-dong, in 2005. Fire tools and a broom lie beside the covered pot, with fuel visible on the floor. The cooking equipment and earthen surfaces preserve details of domestic life in the village before new-town development.
A Soejukgol house beneath a blue roof
A small yard and cultivated plot adjoin this low house in Soejukgol in 2005. Wooden doors and walls sit beneath the blue roof, and a hose lies beside the narrow path into the yard. The view shows how living space and food-growing plots occupied adjoining parts of the village.
Gwanggyo’s buildings and construction sites
This aerial photograph from 2008 brings large buildings and roads in the Gwanggyo district into one view. Exposed-earth construction sites and new routes surround buildings already taking shape, with residential blocks farther away. Completed facilities and open ground share the frame, showing an intermediate stage in the making of a city.
The approach to Suwon Museum in Iui-dong
A broad paved approach leads to the entrance of Suwon Museum in Iui-dong in 2012. Wing-shaped lamps and stone sculptures stand before the blue glass facade, with low landscaped areas on both sides of the path. The photograph shows the building and approach of a local cultural facility where visitors encounter records of the area’s history.