EH Seo was born and raised in South Korea’s southern port city of Busan, but never doubted she would study and work elsewhere.
“Not only my parents, but everyone’s parents wanted their kids to move to Seoul,” said Seo, 32, who left South Korea’s second-largest city straight after high school and now works in the capital. “I wanted to go too, and I have no regrets.”
For most of the 20th century, Busan was a thriving hub of trade and industry. But the city is now in the throes of an exodus of the young that has left it ageing faster than any other metropolitan area in a country that already has the lowest fertility rate in the world.
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