The Seoul Museum of History will open a special showcase Friday revisiting the 1966 public launch of the city's inaugural urban master plan, museum officials said Wednesday. The exhibition, running from Friday through Nov. 8, marks the 60th anniversary of the 1966 Seoul Urban Master Plan, Korea's first comprehensive long-term development blueprint for the entire city. It revisits an earlier public exhibition held in August and September 1966 at what is now Seoul Plaza, where roughly 800,000 residents viewed drawings and models laying out the city's future development. In 1966, Seoul's population had more than doubled in just over a decade, growing to about 3.79 million from 1.56 million in 1955, while a major municipal expansion extended its administrative area from 268 square kilometers to over 600 square kilometers. While the city’s administrative boundaries have hovered at around 600 to 605 square kilometers ever since, its population has grown to nearly 9.4 million today. Jobs and public facilities remained concentrated in the city center even as the population surged, prompting of