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“Seoul Keeper”
Description:
A street-side arrangement of goods in front of an apartment building in Seoul’s Jung District, a central neighborhood with long roots in the city’s history. Jung District has been a core residential and commercial area for generations, and scenes like this reflect the character of its older streets.
Story:
There is a quiet bravery in a place like this:
clocks that no longer keep the same hour,
flowers blooming without seasons,
appliances stacked like memories,
each one carrying the weight of use.
It is a biography written not in words
but in the persistence of things
saved, repaired, carried forward.
A younger world will not leave scenes like this.
Its elders will have no walls of tools,
no gardens made of objects,
no clocks watching over alleys where time moves slowly.
Their hours will live behind ones and zeros,
encrypted and unstoried.
This generation leaves footprints you can photograph.
The next may leave only a password.
Which is why places like this matter.
They remind us life was once tactile,
measured in objects touched,
not screens swiped and nothing owned.
Fifty years from now,
there may be no proof
that a life ever filled a space so fully.
Yet here in this quiet corner of Seoul,
the old way endures,
a garden of hours and flowers and stubborn survival,
a visible soul in a world forgetting how to show itself.
-BAP
Location:
Jung District
Seoul, Korea
37° 33' 48.4'' N, 127° 0' 47.1'' E
Google Map Link
Time: 13:54 KST
Date: October 26th, 2023
Camera & Settings:
Single shot
iPhone 15 Pro
ISO 100, 6.86 mm (24 mm), f/1.8, 1/600 sec
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“Seoul Keeper”
Description:
A street-side arrangement of goods in front of an apartment building in Seoul’s Jung District, a central neighborhood with long roots in the city’s history. Jung District has been a core residential and commercial area for generations, and scenes like this reflect the character of its older streets.
Story:
There is a quiet bravery in a place like this:
clocks that no longer keep the same hour,
flowers blooming without seasons,
appliances stacked like memories,
each one carrying the weight of use.
It is a biography written not in words
but in the persistence of things
saved, repaired, carried forward.
A younger world will not leave scenes like this.
Its elders will have no walls of tools,
no gardens made of objects,
no clocks watching over alleys where time moves slowly.
Their hours will live behind ones and zeros,
encrypted and unstoried.
This generation leaves footprints you can photograph.
The next may leave only a password.
Which is why places like this matter.
They remind us life was once tactile,
measured in objects touched,
not screens swiped and nothing owned.
Fifty years from now,
there may be no proof
that a life ever filled a space so fully.
Yet here in this quiet corner of Seoul,
the old way endures,
a garden of hours and flowers and stubborn survival,
a visible soul in a world forgetting how to show itself.
-BAP
Location:
Jung District
Seoul, Korea
37° 33' 48.4'' N, 127° 0' 47.1'' E
Google Map Link
Time: 13:54 KST
Date: October 26th, 2023
Camera & Settings:
Single shot
iPhone 15 Pro
ISO 100, 6.86 mm (24 mm), f/1.8, 1/600 sec
Same place. Same keeper. Different Seoul. 2015 (Google Maps)
