The document compares housing in North America and Seoul. Houses in North America are larger at around 1,200 square feet and more expensive at $450,000, while surrounded by more land. Apartments in Seoul are much smaller at around 600 square feet but can cost similar amounts despite having more densely populated areas and higher property prices due to limited land. The dense apartment structures in Seoul developed because of space constraints from its large population of over 10 million people living in a small area.

1. Different
Houses!

2. Have you wondered why your
house does not look like the ones
below?

3. Or have you wondered why your
house looks like these?

4. Let’s Compare! : Look at the
pictures of the house in North
America and the house in Seoul
North America Seoul

5. Now, answer the following
questions!
1. How different are the houses?
• Size – Which one’s bigger?
• Surrounding – What surrounds these houses?
• Location – Rural or urban?
• Number of the people living in each building
• Space for outdoor activity
2. Do you think one of the houses is better than the other?
And why?
3. Which one do you think is more expensive? – The bigger
house or smaller apartment?
4. Which one do you like better? And why?

6. Facts!
New Jersey Seoul
(a state in America)
Size: 605㎢
Size: 19,210㎢ Population: 10,500,000
Population: 8,700,000 people
people Price of an apartment:
Price of a house: 750,000 Dollars for
450,000 Dollars for 1245 Sq ft.
1245 Sq ft. small Seoul is compared to New Jersey.
Compare how
Notice how still Seoul has more people living in the area than the
people in New Jersey.
Which place more land to share? New Jersey or Seoul?

7. This is why people live in
Apartments in Seoul!
1. Seoul has too many people living in a small land mass.
2. Because there are not enough to lands to share, people had to
find a way to put as many people as possible in a given space.
3. If people wanted to live in a house like the ones in North
America, they would leave Seoul and move to an area that is less
populated, like country.
4. Because there are so many people wanting a place to
live, apartments in Seoul are very expensive.
5. The apartments in Seoul are usually more expansive than North
American houses.