Namdaemun Fire

Namdaemun Fire, from pwalks.

I just found out that there was a fire last night and “Korean National Treasure No.1” has been destroyed.
Tragic. Arson is suspected. I guess we’ll get more on that in the coming weeks.
Namdaemun was the southern gate of the original city of Seoul. A few details about it on Wikipedia here.

Some pics from the Korean media here and here.

The dramatic photograph above was taken by one of my fellow Seoul Photo Club members. Putting the tragedy aside, compare this photo to the ones in the news links above. There is a sense of urgency and the dramatic here, certainly a picture with a story. This is different to the pics from the media, seemingly devoid of these important elements. Good job Paul. More awesome photos of his from this incident here.