Guryong Village

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Guryong Village (Korean: 구룡마을 hanja: 九龍) is a neighborhood in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, South Korea. It is located across a six-lane motorway from affluent Dogok-dong. Guryong and other shanty towns like it are known as daldongnae (Korean: 달동네 “moon villages”), a euphemism coined because they were often formed on hillsides and were therefore closer to the moon. Guryong is the slowest to redevelop among the remaining moon villages in Gangnam; Baeksa Village in the northeast of Nowon District began redevelopment in 2025 and Gaemi Village in Hongje-dong on the slope of Mt. Inwang was turned into a mural village. The village first arose around the early 1980s, as residents were evicted from other parts of Seoul to make way for the city's rapid development ahead of the 1988 Olympic Games. It was an illegal settlement at the time, as the residents were squatting on privately owned land. The village persisted over the decades, despite multiple efforts to resettle the residents. Beginning in the mid...

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