Korea's Seoullo 7017 project puts people first, cars somewhere else

While developing countries are focused on keeping more and more private vehicles on the move by building flyovers to ease traffic flow, South Korea takes a different view: That more traffic does not equate a better quality of life.

For example, in 2003, it demolished several kilometres of multi-lane elevated roads in capital city Seoul to create what is now the iconic Cheong-yecheon, a 11km-long urban renewal project hailed globally as a great example of rejuvenation that puts people first, not vehicles.