Gentrification vs compassion: Seoul’s booming property market threatens long-running free meal centre serving the city’s poorest pensioners

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SEOUL, Oct 24 — Before the Zaha Hadid-designed plaza, before the luxury high rises, before the South Korean neighbourhood hosted fashion week, there was a pastor handing out rice...

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Residents of the glitzy condos that now overlook the small, bustling Babfor centre “claim our service has devalued their properties by up to 200 million won ” per apartment, Choi told AFP. Babfor previously enjoyed top-level government support: all of South Korea’s living former presidents have visited Choi to help hand out food.

Immediately after his election in 2022, district chief Lee Pil-hyeong ordered sections of the centre to be demolished, hitting Choi with fines worth hundreds of millions of won.

 

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