Late July 2015: Upon recognizing the Singapore flag in Seoul in a place it had never been before (just south of Gwanghwamun Plaza), I discovered that a temporary Singapore exhibition had been set up.
Temporary but presentable. Equipped with A/C inside:
“Pen your wishes for Singapore on her 50th birthday” is a phrasing no American could’ve come up with. Well done.
Most of the exhibition consisted of photos and accompanying explanations. Here are some:
“Queuing is something of a national sport.”
“People use packets of tissue paper to ‘chope’ seats.” / “500,000 attend Swing Singapore festival” (1989) / “The first Great Singapore Duck Race” (1998).
“The merger with Malaysia was short lived.”
The crying man is Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, who died this year after one of the most successful political lives of his time. (See post #292: “On Lee Kuan Yew, Founder of Singapore“).
“Merdeka is the Malay word for freedom.”
There was also a television with three different videos about Singapore playing in rotation. The video I saw was of was some kind of professional Korean photographer who did a photoshoot over a weekend in Singapore and also had a filmcrew following him around, filming him taking pictures.