The 1960s–70s Landscape of Sajik Park and Jangchungdan Children's Pools
Seoul park children's pools, looking back on summer leisure and everyday life in the 1960s–70s Take a look at old summer scenes through photos of Pagoda Park and records from seven Seoul parks
In Seoul's parks in the 1960s and 70s, small pools for children were set up here and there. Unlike today's water parks, neighborhood park pools were the most popular play spaces for children in the summer.
This article introduces a 1960 news report stating that children's pools had been installed in seven parks across Seoul at the time, along with a photo of the children's pool at Pagoda Park in Seoul from 1966 preserved in the Chosun Ilbo photo archive. The parks included Jangchungdan, Tapdong, Inhyeon, Sajik, Mukjeong, Samcheong, and Yeongdeungpo Park, and the fee was 30 hwan for two hours.
The core of the article is to revisit the summer scenery and everyday life of old Seoul through photographs. At the time, children's pools were summer recreational facilities in neighborhood parks and remain as records showing a different kind of urban daily life from today.