Seoul’s Ojinam Goes to Make Way for an Accor Hotel

Ojinam in its heyday was one of Seoul’s top restaurants and a stunning piece of traditional architecture. It has also seen some of the most dramatic moments in South Korea’s political history – secret meetings with the North Koreans etc etc. More details on the restaurant and building here and here. And now it is coming down and being demolished to allow construction of a chain hotel of the usually particularly bland Accor style – ‘a page of our history is disappearing’ Yun Sang-koo of the National Trust of Korea told AP.