Olympic Park

This guide to Olympic Park in Seoul opens in 1983, with bulldozers idling at a hillside while archaeologists race to dig up a lost capital city before it disappears under running tracks and a stadium for the 1988 Summer Olympics. It follows the discovery of sunken pit houses, pottery and weapons belonging to the ancient Baekje kingdom, and the earthen ramparts that once ringed the site against attacks from the north. It traces how the fortress fell in 475 to a rival king, and the choice Seoul faced once its archaeologists were finished. Walk the earthen wall itself as you listen.