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"The destructive effects of automobiles are much less a cause than a symptom of our incompetence at city building" - Jane Jacobs 1961ish
Geumcheon Fashion Town
The Geumcheon Fashion Town was originally a clothes and textile manufacturing complex. However, since the IMF crisis in 1997, the manufacturing industry has lost its competitiveness and the secession phenomenon of manufacturers moving their plants to China and Southeast Asian countries have accelerated.
And so, discount clothes shops gradually began to appear so as to enhance the self-competitiveness of the remaining manufacturers becoming the largest fashion town in Korea where clothes manufacturing and sales is done in the same area.
Geumcheon-gu has named this complex as “Geumcheon Fashion Town” to improve the environment to suit the regional characteristics and promote regional economy.