Our town's railway station has seven empty houses within walking distance, and my mother still tells me how her father walked two hours each way to the textile mill for thirty years. Back then, nobody called it "extinction" — they called it keeping the family fed, just like I do with my six-hour bus rounds to the district hospital now. All these debates about Seoul rent versus provincial emptiness sound familiar: the young ones leave because the jobs are in the city, but the city jobs
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