In the Olympic Village, built south of the Han River, there was as yet little life stirring inside the concrete apartments.

All around was a sea of concrete apartments and villas, dotted with high-rise hotels and construction cranes.

Yes, three concrete apartments around it in a U. Jesus Christ!

Outer districts are still dehumanized by huge, bleak concrete high-rise apartments that epitomize Soviet planning.

From the 1970s onwards the little houses were replaced by multi-storey concrete apartment blocks built in rows with no space in between.

But the downtown looks like a huge rundown housing project, with row after row of concrete apartments.

Young people languish for years on a waiting list to get into the monotonous concrete apartment blocks that ring the big cities.

Many people live in standardized six-story concrete apartments with balconies.

Instead, here she was in an unfurnished concrete apartment, with only two neighbors, both foreigners, both so famous they .

On the outskirts of the city sit block after block of boxy concrete apartments built under Communist rule.