the old seoul post office

Certain buildings, I wish were still extant. The old Seoul Post Office being one of them. It was originally called the Gyeongseong Government Post Office (경성 우편국 청사)  and served its purpose from 1905 to the 1950's when the Korean War erupted. And it was during the war that much of it was sadly destroyed. In 1957 a three-story building was constructed until it was expanded in 1968 to serve the growing metropolis. 

The first building was constructed in the Japanese 'Imperial' Style, which was a style loosely based on late German Baroque. The red brick and whitish granite are typical of architecture in colonial Korea during the early 1900's. A central dome topped the building in typical Baroque fashion. 

By the early 1950's the building had already lost its dome and parts of its roof.

After the demolition of the original and the two subsequent (and mediocre) buildings, this is the Seoul Central Post Office today. It was designed and built by the architecture firm Space Group headed by Lee Sang-leem in 2008.