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$40billion, World's First Smart City Turns To Ghost Town In South Korea(Photos) by Explorers(m): 10:06pm On Mar 28, 2018
A £28 billion ($40 billion) project hailed as the world'sfirst smart city has faded into a 'Chernobyl-like ghost town'.

The 'high-tech utopia' of Songdo on South Korea's northeast coast was built from scratch and designed around technology, with computers built into its streets and condos to control traffic and let neighbours hold video chats.

Residents were promised a city of the future, with remote-controlled front doors and pneumatic rubbishchutes that 'sucked' garbage from your home to later be recycled to generate electricity.

But eerie photos show that, just over 15 years since the Songdo project began, the city is still less than half-built, with one citizen remarking it's like 'living in a deserted prison'.






http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5553001/28-billion-project-dubbed-worlds-Smart-City-turned-Chernobyl-like-ghost-town.html
Lalasticlala, Mynd44

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Re: $40billion, World's First Smart City Turns To Ghost Town In South Korea(Photos) by OneTeslim(m): 10:07pm On Mar 28, 2018
shocked
Reminds me of the series 'Last Man on Earth'

*In Phil/Tandy Miller's voice*
Even if you're the last woman on earth, i still won't have sex with you grin

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Re: $40billion, World's First Smart City Turns To Ghost Town In South Korea(Photos) by Nobody: 10:08pm On Mar 28, 2018
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Re: $40billion, World's First Smart City Turns To Ghost Town In South Korea(Photos) by PrinceJoeWan(m): 10:10pm On Mar 28, 2018
Op, show me a nigerian that would reject an offer to stay there for a lifetime ??

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Re: $40billion, World's First Smart City Turns To Ghost Town In South Korea(Photos) by Explorers(m): 10:13pm On Mar 28, 2018
An abandoned subway station.

Computers were built into its streets (pictured) and condos to control traffic and let neighbours hold video chats.

The city was supposed to kick-start a car-free world, with 40 per cent green space and dozens of kilometres of cycling routes (pictured).

The city is dominated by a rectangular green space surrounded by cutting edge skyscrapers

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Re: $40billion, World's First Smart City Turns To Ghost Town In South Korea(Photos) by Explorers(m): 10:15pm On Mar 28, 2018
The brainchild of property developers and the South Korean government, the vision was to construct a new way of thinking for over 300,000 residents, spread out over 600 hectares of reclaimed land from the Yellow Sea.


But the £28 billion ($40 billion) project, launched in 2002, has struggled to bring in big companies and investors despite hosting South Korea's tallest skyscraper.

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Re: $40billion, World's First Smart City Turns To Ghost Town In South Korea(Photos) by Explorers(m): 10:16pm On Mar 28, 2018
Completion dates for the city, also known as the Songdo International Business District, have been used loosely.

It was meant to be fully functional by 2015, then 2018, and now it's 2022.

The buildings, hospitals, schools, streets, footpaths and cycle lanes are strangely empty for such a large city and there's no presence of culture.

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Re: $40billion, World's First Smart City Turns To Ghost Town In South Korea(Photos) by Thatwasepic(m): 10:17pm On Mar 28, 2018
Seems no form of privacy there.
Re: $40billion, World's First Smart City Turns To Ghost Town In South Korea(Photos) by medexico(m): 10:23pm On Mar 28, 2018
That place better pass Naija

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Re: $40billion, World's First Smart City Turns To Ghost Town In South Korea(Photos) by Jacktheripper: 10:24pm On Mar 28, 2018
Where the ghost town dey because all I see is a carbon copy of Eko Atlantic

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Re: $40billion, World's First Smart City Turns To Ghost Town In South Korea(Photos) by Nobody: 10:27pm On Mar 28, 2018
Take buhari there please
Re: $40billion, World's First Smart City Turns To Ghost Town In South Korea(Photos) by Gosj01(m): 10:27pm On Mar 28, 2018
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Re: $40billion, World's First Smart City Turns To Ghost Town In South Korea(Photos) by dkronicle(m): 10:29pm On Mar 28, 2018
I will choose their over Nigeria�
Re: $40billion, World's First Smart City Turns To Ghost Town In South Korea(Photos) by IeatPussy: 10:37pm On Mar 28, 2018
If they want that place to be filled within 1week. Let them just grant visa free for just 1week.

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Re: $40billion, World's First Smart City Turns To Ghost Town In South Korea(Photos) by psucc(m): 10:49pm On Mar 28, 2018
If to say na Nigeria by now most of those building would start falling. Reminds me of the national Stadium Abuja that collapse few months after renovation by Julius Berger

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Re: $40billion, World's First Smart City Turns To Ghost Town In South Korea(Photos) by Olatoman(m): 12:32am On Mar 29, 2018
To actually see this on front page after seeing it aire on Dstv yesterday evening is something.
So guessing why it as not been fully inhabited is simply due to City's and towns develop as people migrate in, in search of greener pastures. Now building a High Tech City will rob one of that storyline per say, no social/natural turf to create.
It's like coming to Lag, which as an History so rich many families can relate to it when History is relayed to the Young ones.
Then the FG says, a new city as been built from scratch, even if world amenities are provided, the decision to leave won't be easy to come by for most people.

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Re: $40billion, World's First Smart City Turns To Ghost Town In South Korea(Photos) by EbukaHades10(m): 12:44am On Mar 29, 2018
Money miss road

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Re: $40billion, World's First Smart City Turns To Ghost Town In South Korea(Photos) by Rasmodox101(m): 1:58am On Mar 29, 2018
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Re: $40billion, World's First Smart City Turns To Ghost Town In South Korea(Photos) by jayson87: 2:27am On Mar 29, 2018
China SouthKorea and Russia have built so many fantastic state of the art structures that have become ghost cities. They are over priced and it goes a long way to show the rich can't live alone. There has to be a balance

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Re: $40billion, World's First Smart City Turns To Ghost Town In South Korea(Photos) by KendrickAyomide: 6:34am On Mar 29, 2018
still finer than Lagos

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Re: $40billion, World's First Smart City Turns To Ghost Town In South Korea(Photos) by Rigel95(m): 8:15am On Mar 29, 2018
hmm
Re: $40billion, World's First Smart City Turns To Ghost Town In South Korea(Photos) by Nobody: 8:24am On Mar 29, 2018
Eko Atlantic city will be next
Re: $40billion, World's First Smart City Turns To Ghost Town In South Korea(Photos) by Kingsley10000: 9:02am On Mar 29, 2018
in china,there are over 400 ghost cities big and development like New York city with population less than 150people living there



they should start giving Africans free visa to their ghost cities

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Re: $40billion, World's First Smart City Turns To Ghost Town In South Korea(Photos) by Kingsley10000: 9:04am On Mar 29, 2018
Edoloaded:
Eko Atlantic city will be next
it's very small.....these asian ghost cities are very big almost the size of lagos and it's sophisticated and developed

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Re: $40billion, World's First Smart City Turns To Ghost Town In South Korea(Photos) by Kingsley10000: 9:13am On Mar 29, 2018
PrinceJoeWan:
Op, show me a nigerian that would reject an offer to stay there for a lifetime ??
I won't live there...imagine living in a city like Miami and walking In a street 10km length,you will get to see few people........it'll be boring

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Re: $40billion, World's First Smart City Turns To Ghost Town In South Korea(Photos) by PrinceJoeWan(m): 9:24am On Mar 29, 2018
Trust me its still better than a SHITHOLE



Kingsley10000:
I won't live there...imagine living in a city like Miami and walking In a street 10km length,you will get to see few people........it'll be boring

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Re: $40billion, World's First Smart City Turns To Ghost Town In South Korea(Photos) by jayraster(m): 9:33am On Mar 29, 2018
Kingsley10000:
in china,there are over 400 ghost cities big and development like New York city with population less than 150people living there



they should start giving Africans free visa to their ghost cities

Africa will be empty b4 long

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Re: $40billion, World's First Smart City Turns To Ghost Town In South Korea(Photos) by ReneeNuttall(f): 10:08am On Mar 29, 2018
I always dream about traveling to places like this ,only to wake up and realize I'm still in this ....Hole. cry
Re: $40billion, World's First Smart City Turns To Ghost Town In South Korea(Photos) by Khd95(m): 10:26am On Mar 29, 2018
please they should come and move some of us there na
Re: $40billion, World's First Smart City Turns To Ghost Town In South Korea(Photos) by mu2sa2: 11:44am On Mar 29, 2018
This shows that it is human beings that make a city come alive and "bubble ". Those buildings are useless without people. People are attracted to a place by the opportunities available there. If a place packed with high tech buildings cannot attract people it shouldn't be called smart city - it is a ghost town.

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Re: $40billion, World's First Smart City Turns To Ghost Town In South Korea(Photos) by moscobabs(m): 12:29pm On Mar 29, 2018
grin

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