About 45,000 households left the city centers in the past year to seek their fortunes or at least more fulfilling lives away from urban places,
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/08/03/428102390/tired-of-the-seoul-sucking-rat-race-koreans-flock-to-farming
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"At the construction company a lot of the time I'd wake up at 6 in the morning and work all night through to the next day," he says. "That was really hard for me."
South Korea has an overwhelmingly urban population. More than 80 percent of people live in cities. But in the past few years, something has started to change. Tens of thousands of South Koreans like Kim Pil-Gi are relocating to the countryside each year. His father, Kim Jin-Suk, left a marketing job in Seoul to start this farm.
"In the city you're always running short of time, because you're trying to get rich," he says. "In the countryside, I find that I have more time for myself."
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/08/03/428102390/tired-of-the-seoul-sucking-rat-race-koreans-flock-to-farming
[excerpt]
"At the construction company a lot of the time I'd wake up at 6 in the morning and work all night through to the next day," he says. "That was really hard for me."
South Korea has an overwhelmingly urban population. More than 80 percent of people live in cities. But in the past few years, something has started to change. Tens of thousands of South Koreans like Kim Pil-Gi are relocating to the countryside each year. His father, Kim Jin-Suk, left a marketing job in Seoul to start this farm.
"In the city you're always running short of time, because you're trying to get rich," he says. "In the countryside, I find that I have more time for myself."
