The 1980s were an exciting time to be in booming Seoul, with Koreans and expat English teachers alike hustling for a better economic life.
Everyone was looking forward to the 1988 Summer Olympics, the first professional baseball game was played in the old Dongdaemun Stadium on a cold blustery day in March 1982, and the bane of dictatorship was relegated to the dustbin of history after a fair and honest presidential election was held in December 1987.
With dictatorship finally gone, South Koreans could get a passport and travel abroad. Seeing the world was something that they had dreamed of doing and then did with a vengeance. And they passed their wanderlust on to the following generations, with today’s young Koreans being some of the most-traveled students in the world.
Here, a gallery of 45 amazing photographs that show what life in Seoul looked like in the 1980s:
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