[Cityscapes] Farewell Nightmare Lab
(WorldNews South Korea)

A shelf in the Nightmare Lab at Seoul National University`s closed Suwon agricultural campus contains dozens of preserved specimens in jars, seen in September 2013. / Courtesy of Ron Bandun By Ron Bandun Urban explorers are sometimes criticized for hiding, or even `hoarding` the sites we visit. But there are legit reasons for withholding information from the internet. We protect sites by obscuring place names, embargoing publication of pictures until a later date, even controlling who knows offline. Now that the Nightmare Lab is gone with only a trace of wallpaper remaining on concrete, I can tell this story. Our story begins with a longtime collaborator, photographer and self-publisher...