Seoul Metropolitan Government on Monday released some 23,000 photos of Seoul taken over 20 years.



The photos, compiled in collective efforts with research agency The Seoul Institute, shows how the capital city has changed from 1995 to 2015.





As long as due credit is given, the photos can be freely altered for commercial use, according to the Seoul Metropolitan Government, who holds the copyrights.Photos with resolution of 900 pixels can be directly downloaded from the website data.si.re.kr/seoulphoto , while those with higher resolution of 1,600 pixels can be obtained upon request via email.Kim Hak-jin, the general director of the Urban Planning Bureau under the city government, said that more photos would be released to the public every five years.By Lim Jeong-yeo ( kaylalim@heraldcorp.com