2024 Summer Study Abroad
Sustainable Urbanism in South Korea
May 13, 2024 – May 27, 2024
Six Planning students (three undergraduates and three graduate students) joined the Sustainable Urbanism in South Korea Summer Study Abroad program in 2024 (faculty lead: Dr. Misun Hur). The Community and Regional Planning program at ECU has hosted this program for four years since 2019.
The program has had three main focuses: environmental innovation, transportation innovation, and traditional and world architecture. This year, it extended its focus by adding “coastal eco-tourism” in Kangnung, a coastal city located on the east coast of South Korea.
The program offered a full of exciting events–from a former landfill site to a resource recovery facility (waste treatment facility), from buses and subways to autonomous vehicles and a bullet train, from a palace built in 1405 to a 123-story tower, and from Seoul metropolis where 10 million people live to a coastal town of Kangnung with eco-tourism.
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- Seoul TOPIS
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- Kangnung eco-tourism site
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- Coastal Kangnung
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- Korean traditional cloths
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- Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) by Zaha Hadid
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- Seoul Sky Observatory (123-story)
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- Changdeokgung Palace
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- Coex Mall
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- DMZ (looking the North Korea side)
Interested in the 2025 Study Abroad program in South Korea?
Website at https://planning.ecu.edu/study_abroad/