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More than food: Seoul gentrification threatens free meal centre / 36KN86Q
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For decades, hundreds of people -- 1,200 a day at its peak, and currently around 700 -- have used the Babfor service centre for free hot meals in the low-rent area of Dongdaemun.
But as land values in the rapidly gentrifying area have soared, the centre and its founder, pastor Choi Il-do, have found themselves increasingly at odds with their new neighbours, who claim the popular free meal service centre attracts too many people, leading to crime and hurting property prices. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES