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About this audio guide

This guide to Haeundae Arboretum in Busan starts with engineers drilling test wells in 2010 and hitting broken glass and rotting plastic, six years of Busan's buried household garbage under a hillside in Seokdae. It traces the landfill's life from 1987 to 1993, its failure to quietly decay as officials hoped, and the years spent capping gas vents and planting nearly 190,000 trees. You'll hear how a dumping ground became a spot where sheep now graze. Walk the paths and remember what lies capped beneath.