Sangdong-eup is a place where the Sangdong mine, which produced the amount of tungsten that accounts for 10% of the total tungsten in the world, was located. Until the 1970s, more than 24,000 people, including miners were lived in the region. After the mine was abandoned, the number of residents was decreased to 1,200 or more in the 2010s. The region now has the smallest population in South Korea. For revitalization of the region, the local government stepped in to help. It contributed 30 charcoal sauna rooms to Sangdong-eup with charcoal, a local product as the theme of tourism.
Photography: Ryu In Keun
The charcoal sauna rooms are facilities using the heat from a charcoal kiln that lasts for about a week after making the charcoal for a sauna. The charcoal kiln is directly used as sauna room with no extra room or heat exchange, which leads to dangerous situations in that industrial facility is used as a room. Therefore, this facility is always a factory but is a theme park at times. The path for seamless movements a forklift should embrace the theme park. The functional plane corresponds to the production and the geometry of roofs answers to amusements. Photography: Ryu In Keun
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