Bath houses in Seoul | Hyunsung Park its doors now firmly closed

its doors now firmly closed

Published by 6699 Press

and one that does not welcome guests any longer

another surrounded with bamboo

Bath houses in Seoul | Hyunsung Park its doors now firmly closedPublished by 6699 Press, an independent Korean publisher, this book is a testimony to the dying public bathhouses in Seoul. Photographer Hyunsung Park focused on ten of the oldest bathhouses that managed to survive in the margins and gaps of the city for more than thirty years. I tried to search Seoul bathhouses older than thirty years and express the quaint beauty and the stories of those places in photographsone that opened in 1967, another