Yeouido Hangang Park
Riverside park of running paths, lawns and cherry blossoms on the site of Korea's first airport.
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This guide to Yeouido Hangang Park in Seoul centers on Sohn Kee-chung, the Korean runner who won the 1936 Olympic marathon while forced to compete under a Japanese name and flag. It traces the airstrip that once covered this island, where his plane touched down after Berlin, and a newspaper's decision to erase that flag from his victory photo. Picture the runway that once stretched beneath this grass as you walk the riverside path today.
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