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In mid-October, close to 10 bicycles were parked in front of Gangbyeon Station of Subway Line 2 in Seoul’s Gwangjin District. They had a tag that read, “Gwangjin District public bicycle,”

Several posters on the wall were promoting the opening of a bicycle path along with South Han River. Those bicycles, however, disappeared just after a couple of days.

The public bicycles seemed to be hurriedly and temporarily prepared for Lee Myung-bak government’s promotion of a 1,692 kilometer-long bicycle path that was completed as a part of the controversial Four Major Rivers Restoration Project.

(Photo by Kang Jae-hoon)