This project suggests a type of system and prototype for a change in Korean motel complex having negative characteristics that are different from other countries’. What is MOTEL in Korea? Numerous motels performed as a love hotel bright the cityscape behind a law’s back.

    Unlike the motels in the United States, motels in Korea were different from the start. The first generation motels appeared before the Asian Games and the Olympics in the 80’s with encouraging policy to meet the accommodation necessities. In 1994, the Korean government mitigated the agricultural land regulation for development and eased the restrictions for lodging business, and 2nd generation motels became spreads out.

     Parking lots were added to the motels as an essential component. To grab the attentions, motels started to decorate themselves with various forms of provinces around the world, even bringing in palm trees and foreign landmarks creating a night light that is brighter than the day making the landscape look like a feast of fancy motels. With increasing voice of complaint about motels negative effect on education,   Motels were best at minimizing investment payback periods and division of land areas was sufficient. 3rd generation motels stuck to prior generations’ surviving methods such as locating in assembly areas and having showy exterior. We called these motel crowded areas as “motel-chon” and these areas were avoided during the day and its flashed lights were attracting people in the night. Motels have become ironic places with negative awareness that made people unwilling to visit as it was conserved as unsound venues but still have visited. Even in such situations, there are no efforts to improve the motel-chon.

  Much more architectural attention is needed for motel-chon which is evaded but related with daily life.