Is Yongsan Park a quick fix for Seoul’s housing shortage?

Seoul needs more homes, and Yongsan Park looks like the kind of land the government would find hard to ignore. The site is large, centrally located and largely undeveloped. But it is also a former military garrison that Seoul has spent years planning to turn into a national urban park. Those competing priorities collided Thursday as Land Minister Kim Yoon-deok and Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon met over the future of the site but failed to agree on whether part of the main site should be used for housin

By The Korea Herald