Apartment, hotel, restaurant, apartmentSourced
A Seoul building opened as apartments.
Then it changed jobs repeatedly.
Completed in 1937 under Japanese rule, Chungjeong Apartment became a hotel in 1940, then a restaurant selling alcohol and oden. After later use as military accommodation, it returned to apartment use in the 1960s.
One building carried
several chapters of the city.
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