Statue Of Hammering Man

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    underground rail: Line 5 to Gwanghwamun, Exit 6

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Lonely Planet review

The giant, moving metallic shadow of a hammering man towers five storeys above the street. Funded by a local insurance company, the super-blacksmith has been silently hammering since 2002. It was made out of 50 tons of steel by American artist Jonathon Borofsky (www.borofsky.com), whose art is humanist but mechanical, monumental but intriguing, simple but thought-provoking. Is work just a meaningless ritual that we allow to dominate our lives?