What you re quoting is about south korea.
North korea blue roofs.
Colour comes from the standard rubbery cheap waterproofing material that is also used to coat high school lab floors and basketball courts in korea.
Insofar as someone can afford blue tiles they must be wealthy.
Cheongwadae is in fact a complex of multiple buildings built largely in the traditional korean architectural style with some modern architectural elements and facilities.
The blue roofs were popular aesthetically for a short period in the 1970s but you don t see new buildings these days with blue roofs.
It s durable cheap and green.
That being said most actually blue roofs are from industrial places where they use corrugated steel roofs or similar or aquariums with blue roofs.
Yes park loved blue roof and that s why south korean presidential residence is called blue house or chong wa dae which literally means house with blue roof tiles the residence was built under his rule.
Most now are grey but there are some that are orange.
The blue house is the most protected official residence in asia.
As part of this the government mass purchased construction supplies to be used across the country.
The country op is talking about is north korea.
Authorities in north korea have ordered residents to modernize the roofs of all buildings in a bid to dupe the international community into thinking economic sanctions have had no effect on the.
Built upon the site of the royal gard.
This imagery is also present in south korea.
There are a few reddit threads devoted to the number of blue roofs in korea.
Their head of state lives in the blue house which also has these blue tiles.
South korea s presidential home is the blue house named for the hue of its roof tile some redditors speculate that.