Hotel Design | Handsome Hotel | Gyeonggido | Korea | Mass Studies

On a breakneck expansion for the past few decades, Seoul needed places in the surrounding areas for its citizens to get away to escape the tension inevitably generated from such condensed development. Add to that the astronomical rise in the number of cars in the past 20 years, and today's urbanites have both the reason and the means to seek out quiet areas yet untouched by the ravages of development. Unfortunately, the condition was ripe for ill-planned and indiscriminate establishment of "motel villages" and "food villages" in areas proximate to Seoul, including Namyangju (where the proposed hotel is located). As a result, in most of the areas with good accessibility and scenery are "pseudo cities" densely packed with crudely built structures.

The onset of the five-day workweek means that there will be an ever-increasing demand for a greater variety of leisure activities, quality environment and services around large cities.........more