Benjamin Lee, Seoul: The Land of Radiating Concrete Jungle (URBAN 2026)

Seoul: The Land of Radiating Concrete Jungle was photographed in the stark cold of January 2026, when winter strips the city to its bare truth—an endless expanse of concrete rising where landscape once breathed. By night, the megacity radiates with relentless artificial light, towers blinking in uniform obedience and highways streaming like mechanical veins without a living pulse. Mountains fade into ornamental silhouettes and the river becomes a mirror for infrastructure, reflecting a skyline that feels manufactured rather than inhabited. It is a sad reality: a place where concrete has overwhelmed nature so completely that even darkness cannot return it to silence.

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