SEOUL: BEFORE the PAUSE: A Photographic Record from Early Days of COVID-19, February 27-March 5, 2020

Seoul at the edge of a historic change-just before the pause became global.Photographed between February 27 and March 5, 2020, SEOUL: BEFORE THE PAUSE is an art-led documentary photobook of urban life during the early COVID-19 outbreak in South Korea. Beginning at Incheon International Airport and moving through Seoul's rain-soaked streets, subways, pharmacies, restaurants, markets, and neon nights, the book observes how a city adapts before a new reality is fully understood.Hand sanitizer at the airport. Public-health notices reflected in wet pavement. Masks entering everyday systems. A queue forming outside a pharmacy. Empty tables waiting under warm lights. These details appear without spectacle, held in the quiet visual rhythm of street photography.Across 159 photographs, Hello UG preserves one brief, unsettled week when ordinary life continued but its meaning had started to shift-a photographic record for readers drawn to Seoul, South Korea, urban memory, and the visual history of COVID-19.