Picture of the Day: 1960’s Seoul?
Korean street market in 1960, probably near or in Seoul. The exact location has not been positively identified yet. The photographer, my father Leroy Smothers, did not label the 35 mm slide this image was scanned from. He traveled all over South Korea, so this could be somewhere other than Seoul. (We lived 1960 near Itaewon, south of Seoul.) [Bill Somther’s Flickr page]
Those most-likely-Japanese-built brick buildings may help to narrow it down. Could those buildings be the old Hospital outside of South Post (across from City Park apartments) – just down from Ichon station? That place just recently got the wrecking ball so there should be some more recent photos of that area for comparison…