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Seoul has many faces because it is one of the most complicated city in the world.
The old and the new are existing together.
You can enjoy its long and abundant history in Seoul.
You can look and walk around the old palaces and museums. And you can enjoy modern buildings and K-pop music in Seoul.
When there is a bright side, there exists the dark side.
Usually the bright and the dark sides are existing together. That is a core of the Tai-chi.
I found the dark and the bright sides together in one village when I had walked along the Seoul Wall.
It was the Seongbookdong in northern area of Seoul.
Seongbookdong is very famous for a rich village, and also for it’s poor village.
The richest families have been living in Seongbookdong and the poorest people have been living in Seongbookdong.
After the Korean war, the refugees had gathered near the Seongbookdong just near the Wall where land owner was a government.
On the other side of the road, there was rich village. It is mysterious how such a rich village is located in the vicinity of the poorest village.
Actually this uncomfortable coexistence was seemed to be originated from the Korean war.
I heard and read much when it comes to the poor Seongbookdong village.
I could take the photos of the roof of the old houses.
I could not look into the lives of them living there, only I could estimate how tired of their daily life was.
That village was called as ‘Moon village’
It means that village is located in too high place where only Moon could get in.
The miserable sides are supposed to be seen clearly in the circumstances of comparing with opposite side.
Just across the road there was a rich village on the hill.
The road dividing the poor and the rich village is nothing special as below.
What divide us into the poor and the rich?
The road ?
The road has no responsible for the division between the poor and the rich.