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Saemangeum is located on the south-west coastline of the Korean peninsula facing the Yellow Sea. The longest sea wall in the world (34 km long) was built in the hope of reclaiming a large area of new land from the sea. The construction of the sea wall began in 1991 and was completed in 2006. The former tidal mud flats within the estuaries of the Man-Gyeong and Dong-Jin Rivers have been enclosed by the new sea wall and fooded to create a fresh water lake covering more than 400 square kilometres.
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See: Kim Seong-hwan, ’saemangeum — The Crystalization of Social Desires’, SPACE, issue 493, Dec. 2008, p. 55–57. The source of historical information on the political background of the Saemangeum sea wall project is from the above essay.
Han Myeong-gyu, (Deputy Governor of Jeollabukdo for Provincial Affairs), ‘New Challenges and Hopes for the Saemangeum Project’, SPACE, issue 493, Dec. 2008, p. 83–84.
The’ saemangeum International Comprehensive Urban Design Concept Competition, South Korea’, was organised by the Urban Design Institute of Korea under the direction of the Provincial Government of Jeollabukdo. In January 2008 the following seven international teams of architects were invited to visit the site in Korea, and to begin working on a design proposal for a new city: Berlage Institute, Rotterdam, Branimir Medic and Daniel Valle; Columbia University, New York, Jeffrey Inaba; European University of Madrid, Jose Luis Esteban Penelas; London Metropolitan University, Florian Beigel and Philip Christou; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., Nadir Tehrani, Alexander D’Hooghe; Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yoshihara Tsukamoto and Akira Soshiroda; Yonsei University, Seoul, Moon Gyu Choi. Three teams were selected in August 2008 as joint winners of the competition: London Metropolitan University, Columbia University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They made a presentation at the end of August to public meeting in Seoul attended by the former Prime Minister of South Korea and potential private and public inves tors. In October 2008 these three teams each submitted a revised design report in response to the comments and criticisms made in August by the competition jury.
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Beigel, F., Christou, P. (2010). The Saemangeum Project. In: Architecture as city. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-0368-5_4
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