Mississippi River / Han River

This is Seoul,

This is St. Louis,

Both are bisected by huge rivers.  Seoul's Han River is a central recreation area and bike transit corridor.  It is a linear park fed into by a number of tribute stream parks which lead to larger parks like World Cup Park, Olympic Park, and Seoul Forest.

St. Louis has the River Ring which encompasses all of St. Louis City, St. Louis County, and St. Charles County.  In Madison County, they're holding onto a number of future metrolink right of ways in the form of connected greenways connected to bus stops. 

Both rivers have beautiful pedestrian and bike bridges connecting banks.

Both Seoul and St. Louis have a few islands out in the middle of their rivers.  In both cases they are dedicated to bike and pedestrian uses in addition to fishing. 

The fact is that Seoul has just a few more people living in highrises close to both banks.  Seoul also extends to a much wider network of trials, or will soon at any rate.

St. Louis is connected to the Katy Trail and the Mississippi River Trail, which links it to Kansas City, the Quad Cities, and Memphis.

There is just one major difference standing between Seoul and St. Louis that isn't money and population.  Seoul's parks are networked by daylighted streams like Yangjaecheon that look like this,

St. Louis hasn't really made very good spillways, recreational spaces, or purifying wetlands out of its streams.  Note the River des Peres,

My hope for St. Louis is in four parts.

1. All the parks in the city are connected by beautiful greenways.
2. The Gateway Mall connects to the arch grounds and goes right across the river into an bigger park in East St. Louis.
3. Both banks of the Mississippi be made into linear parks and connected by artsy recreation bridges.
4.  The region is anchored with huge greenspaces upstream at the confluence and downstream at the mouth of the Meramec.  This would require Arnold City Park to get significantly bigger.

The River Ring is very noble and important, but the Mississippi deserves the biggest investment.

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This is a steadily developing parent article related to the Mississippi River.  It addresses a larger picture and comes directly from the following entries,

St. Louis Highways / Seoul Highways
Mississippi Tributaries / Han Tributaries
Old Chain of Rocks Bridge / Banpo Dae Gyo
Mississippi River Islands / Han River Islands
Highway 70 / Cheonggyecheon
Edward Jones Dome / Seoul World Cup Stadium