SIXTY-three-year-old Kim Sun-dae had planned to move out of Seoul and return to his hometown in the countryside when he retired.
But he changed his mind after a chance visit three years ago to a mountainous region in north-western Seoul, where a small area was earmarked for a cluster of hanok, or traditional Korean homes with tiled roofs, wooden lattice windows and a courtyard.
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