Atlas Obscura
Gamcheon Culture Village in Gamcheon 2(i)-dong, South Korea
The town of Gamcheon is located to the south of Busan, the second-largest city in South Korea. This area was built on the foothills of a mountain near the coast during the 1920s and 1930s, relocating the poor population of the main urban area here. After the Korean War, the population of Gamcheon started increasing, with many war refugees moving here. In what was at the time a shanty town, peop…