Seoul Forest Park
Riverside urban forest on a former racetrack, with deer, a butterfly park and bike paths.
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This guide to Seoul Forest Park follows the ground beneath your feet from 1954, when this riverside stretch by the Han River was Seoul's first horse racetrack, through the track's closure after the 1988 Olympics and the golf range and apartment plans that followed. It traces how, starting in 2003, thousands of citizens and dozens of companies funded its transformation into forest. Look for the bronze horse statues near the entrance, a nod to the ground's earlier life.
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