Seoul Sights

Statue of Hammering Man

  • Address
    • Gwanghwamun
  • Transport
    • line 5 to Gwanghwamun, Exit 6

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Lonely Planet review for Statue of Hammering Man

The moving metallic shadow of a hammering man towers five storeys above the street. Funded by a local insurance company, the superman of a blacksmith has been silently hammering since 2002. It was made out of 50 tonnes of steel by American artist Jonathan Borofsky, whose art is humanist but mechanical, simple but thought-provoking. Is work just a meaningless ritual that dominates our lives?

 

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