Farewell frenzy in the Blue House


Goodbye tour: People queueing up as they visit the Blue House in Seoul. — AFP

The queue stretches all the way down the road. Tens of thousands of people are flocking to South Korea’s historic Blue House before the new president moves his office back in.

Ex-president Yoon Suk-yeol spurned the elegant compound in leafy northern Seoul claiming it was too “imperial”. He opened it to the public in 2022, and moved into a hastily converted ministry instead.

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