Bath houses in Seoul | Hyunsung Park another about to be closed

another about to be closed down after it has changed hands several times

I’m very grateful for the hospitality we were shown

― from Lee Jaeyoung (6699press)’s statement

a resident-friendly one that hosts community festival every year

It was quite a challenge to enter these places with a camera

Bath houses in Seoul | Hyunsung Park another about to be 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