- Seorae Village
Infobox Korean name
hangul=서래마을
hanja=linktext|西|來마을
rr=Seorae Ma-eul
mr=Sŏrae MaŭlSeorae Village, sometimes nicknamed "
Montmartre " due to its hilltop location, is a small French enclave inBanpo-dong ,Seocho-gu ,Seoul ,South Korea . It is home to about 560 French people, roughly 40% of the ethnic French community in South Korea. Most of them are employees of French corporations doing business in the country. The majority (370) of the French population is actually children.The village began to form here in 1985, with the movement of
L'Ecole Francaise de Seoul to the area. The school, the city's only Frenchinternational school , had formerly been located just north of the Han River inHannam-dong , a large international neighborhood. French people with children followed, as did bakeries andwine shop s.The village is the site of a 20,000 m² park, "Montmartre Park," which is often the site of public events for foreigners. It is near
Express Bus Terminal Station onSeoul Subway Line 3 .External links
* [http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200604/200604110007.html Chosun Ilbo: Little France in South Korea]
* [http://english.kbs.co.kr/life/path/1393425_14466.html KBS Global profile]
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