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Photographed at Naksan-gil, Ihwa-dong, Seoul in March 2025
Minutes later on Naksan-gil, the view shifts from parkland to the architectural silhouettes of Ihwa-dong's hillside neighborhood, where low-rise buildings climb the slope in staggered tiers against the deep indigo of the March night sky. The Ihwa Mural Village - famous for its community art project that covered aging walls with colorful murals in the 2000s - is suggested by the occasional splash of illuminated color visible on a building facade. Architectural details emerge in the interplay of street lighting and shadow: hanok-style roof curves on one structure, the angular geometry of a 1970s apartment block on the next, the glass front of a recently renovated cafe between them. Seoul's layered history is nowhere more visible than in these hillside neighborhoods, where each decade's building practices sit shoulder to shoulder in a vertical timeline of urban development. The city lights reflected in the sky create an ambient glow that never quite allows true darkness, the perpetual twilight of a megacity that never fully sleeps.