{"id":2608,"date":"2016-06-01T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T09:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/junglim.com\/?p=2608"},"modified":"2025-11-11T07:12:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T22:12:14","slug":"cj-the-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/junglim.com\/en\/cj-the-center\/","title":{"rendered":"CJ The Center"},"content":{"rendered":"\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&nbsp;CJ Namsan Headquarters (currently&nbsp;CJ The Center) is located between Seoul Station and Namsan in the&nbsp;Yangdong District Urban Environment Improvement Zone, adjacent to&nbsp;Baekbeom Plaza Park&nbsp;and the&nbsp;Millennium Hilton Seoul (scheduled for demolition). In February 1995,&nbsp;CheilJedang Co., Ltd.&nbsp;purchased the building and used it as the CJ Group headquarters. For improving the aging building, embodying the symbolic image of the headquarters, and creating a new work environment, a design competition was held in 2016 to select a designer, leading to a renovation project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After winning the competition, Junglim Architecture developed several design alternatives following the directions requested by CJ Group, ultimately deciding on the classic design that differentiates the building from the surrounding structures. Notably, the upper floors prioritize the offices\u2019 interior environment, with large arches designed on the fa\u00e7ades to maximize classic elements, giving the building a distinctive character.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yna.co.kr\/view\/AKR20190218053300030\" target=\"_blank\">[Yonhap News] Namsan CJ Building Starts Fresh as &#8216;CJ The Center&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.donga.com\/news\/Economy\/article\/all\/20190218\/94182086\/1\" target=\"_blank\">[Dong-a Ilbo] CJ Returns to Namsan Headquarters&#8230; &#8220;Beginning the March Toward the Future&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1919\" height=\"1280\" data-id=\"2722\" src=\"https:\/\/junglim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2016_cj-the-center_slide-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2722\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" data-id=\"2711\" src=\"https:\/\/junglim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2016_cj-the-center_slide-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2711\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" data-id=\"2712\" src=\"https:\/\/junglim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2016_cj-the-center_slide-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2712\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" data-id=\"2725\" src=\"https:\/\/junglim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2016_cj-the-center_slide-04.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2725\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1186\" height=\"1280\" data-id=\"2726\" src=\"https:\/\/junglim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2016_cj-the-center_slide-05.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2726\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" data-id=\"2715\" src=\"https:\/\/junglim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2016_cj-the-center_slide-06.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2715\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" data-id=\"2716\" src=\"https:\/\/junglim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2016_cj-the-center_slide-07.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2716\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"1280\" data-id=\"2717\" src=\"https:\/\/junglim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2016_cj-the-center_slide-08.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2717\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" data-id=\"2718\" src=\"https:\/\/junglim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2016_cj-the-center_slide-09.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2718\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"1280\" data-id=\"2719\" src=\"https:\/\/junglim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2016_cj-the-center_slide-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2719\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"1281\" data-id=\"2720\" src=\"https:\/\/junglim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2016_cj-the-center_slide-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2720\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"1279\" data-id=\"2721\" src=\"https:\/\/junglim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2016_cj-the-center_slide-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2721\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;CJ Namsan Headquarters (currently&nbsp;CJ The Center) is located between Seoul Station and Namsan in the&nbsp;Yangdong District Urban Environment Improvement Zone, adjacent to&nbsp;Baekbeom Plaza Park&nbsp;and the&nbsp;Millennium Hilton Seoul (scheduled for demolition). In February 1995,&nbsp;CheilJedang Co., Ltd.&nbsp;purchased the building and used it as the CJ Group headquarters. For improving the aging building, embodying the symbolic image of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,68,71,15,56,66,20,21,22,32],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/junglim.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junglim.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/junglim.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junglim.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/junglim.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junglim.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junglim.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}