Photo Gallery South Korea's Miniature Germany
It has an Oktoberfest, German sausages and immaculate front gardens. South Korea's "German Village" is home to Koreans who spent years as migrant workers in Germany and their German spouses. Today, thousands of tourists come to visit the quirky settlement -- much to the annoyance of some residents.
Buim and Ulrich Ulmer have lived in the "German Village" since 2006. Buim went to Germany to work as a nurse in 1970. But she does not feel truly at home in South Korea: "We have no home, there is always something missing," she said.
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Wilhelm Engelfried, 82, and his wife. "We cannot turn this into a German province," he said.
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