{"id":1801,"date":"1989-08-09T13:56:00","date_gmt":"1989-08-09T04:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/junglim.com\/?p=1801"},"modified":"2026-04-24T12:46:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T03:46:31","slug":"dong-a-life-insurance-hq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/junglim.com\/en\/dong-a-life-insurance-hq\/","title":{"rendered":"Dong-A Life Insurance Headquarters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"1279\" data-id=\"1815\" src=\"https:\/\/junglim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1989_dongah-life-insurance-hq_slide-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1815\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"1281\" data-id=\"1816\" src=\"https:\/\/junglim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1989_dongah-life-insurance-hq_slide-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1816\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group pjtText is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<p>The Dong-A Life Insurance building,\u00a0located\u00a0at the intersection of Sejong-ro\u00a0Road and\u00a0Cheonggyecheon\u00a0Stream in Da-dong, Jung-gu, Seoul, was built as the headquarters building of Dong-A Life Insurance, an affiliate of the Dong-A Group. According to the client&#8217;s preference for creating a corporate image and a modern appearance, the building\u2019s top floor was uniquely designed, revealing one aspect of skyscraper architecture that variously flourished in the expanding urban center of Seoul during the 1980s and 1990s.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 19-story building is characterized by a three-tiered design: the lower floors accessible from the ground, the middle floors functioning as office space, and the upper floors expressing the building\u2019s personality. As you go higher in the building, the materials and colors become more diverse, and the combination&nbsp;of heterogeneous elements in the exterior becomes more prominent. While the lower floors evoke a classical atmosphere, the rooftop garden atrium, made of glass arches following a modern steel bolt structure, forms a monumental motif on the roof.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Archive<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/junglim.info\/archives\/7738\" target=\"_blank\">Junglim People &amp; Works Dong-A Life Insurance Building<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dong-A Life Insurance building,\u00a0located\u00a0at the intersection of Sejong-ro\u00a0Road and\u00a0Cheonggyecheon\u00a0Stream in Da-dong, Jung-gu, Seoul, was built as the headquarters building of Dong-A Life Insurance, an affiliate of the Dong-A Group. According to the client&#8217;s preference for creating a corporate image and a modern appearance, the building\u2019s top floor was uniquely designed, revealing one aspect of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,39,71,15,66,20,21,22],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/junglim.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/junglim.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/junglim.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junglim.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junglim.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/junglim.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junglim.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/junglim.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junglim.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junglim.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}