Seoul turned an abandoned overpass into its own $33 million version of the 'High Line'

The South Korean capital of Seoul recently completed a massive urban garden that rivals the High Line, New York City's famed elevated park.

Called Seoullo 7017 (or Seoul Street), the project turned an abandoned overpass into a lush public park with over 24,000 plants.

In 2015, the Dutch architecture firm MRVDV won a competition launched by the city to design the milelong park that hovers over the city.

Construction of the estimated $33 million project (funded by the local government) started a year later, and it opened in late May.

Seoullo 7017 is part of a larger urban regeneration effort that aims to make Seoul, a city with over 10 million residents, more pedestrian-friendly.

Check it out below.