For this native New Yorker, a night out in Seoul made me think ... Songdo is one of the most intensely planned places on earth. There is no history to contend with. There is only the future.

“It is very dangerous when people crowd together in an enclosed space because there is no way to escape the force.” He said the alley in Itaewon, a popular nightlife district in ...

SEOUL--Usually glitzy and buzzing in the holiday season, South Korea’s popular Itaewon night-life district looks ... are conspicuously quiet. Where there would normally be hustle and bustle ...