Two posts on the Nam Dae Moon Market explore the difference between remembering and reminiscing - between memory and nostalgia for the past.

The times are changing, @slowwalker, and you're right - something's lost and something's gained.

The modern malls and department stores are beautiful but sterile. They lack the hustle and bustle of ordinary life and the colourful diversity of traditional Korean culture.

The familiar sights and sounds of people milling about and laughing are absent from modern malls - they seem too stiff and formal and we feel uncomfortable being in them.

Side walk vendors are the face of Seoul - these are the actual citizens struggling to make a living selling home made food and working long into the night.

This second post described the market at night - very fitting since it's called Nam Dae Moon Market!

When nighttime visits the city, the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and simple streets become magical places lit by colourful lights.

Your photos captured the dark romance of Seoul - a different city when the lights come on.

There's not enough reality - not enough actuality.

You're right, @slowwalker, night has a mysterious power.